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Richter syndrome

Condoluci, Adalgisa ; Rossi, Davide

In: Current Oncology Reports, 2021, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 10

Purpose of Review Richter syndrome (RS) is an uncommon but aggressive evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). RS is an unmet clinical need in the field of CLL. Recent advances in understanding the biology of this condition provide the rationale for testing new therapeutic concepts in order to improve the outcome of patients developing RS, which is so far...

Université de Fribourg

β-Arrestin1 and β-Arrestin2 are required to support the activity of the CXCL12/HMGB1 heterocomplex on CXCR4

D’Agostino, Gianluca ; Artinger, Marc ; Locati, Massimo ; Perez, Laurent ; Legler, Daniel F. ; Bianchi, Marco E. ; Rüegg, Curzio ; Thelen, Marcus ; Marchese, Adriano ; Rocchi, Marco B. L. ; Cecchinato, Valentina ; Uguccioni, Mariagrazia

In: Frontiers in Immunology, 2020, vol. 11, p. -

The chemokine receptor CXCR4 plays a fundamental role in homeostasis and pathology by orchestrating recruitment and positioning of immune cells, under the guidance of a CXCL12 gradient. The ability of chemokines to form heterocomplexes, enhancing their function, represents an additional level of regulation on their cognate receptors. In particular, the multi-faceted activity of the...

Université de Fribourg

Innate immune cells and their contribution to T-cell-based immunotherapy

Ginefra, Pierpaolo ; Lorusso, Girieca ; Vannini, Nicola

In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020, vol. 21, no. 12, p. 4441

In recent years, immunotherapy has become the most promising therapy for a variety of cancer types. The development of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies, the adoptive transfer of tumor-specific T cells (adoptive cell therapy (ACT)) or the generation of T cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) have been successfully applied to elicit durable immunological responses in...

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Role of ETS1 in the transcriptional network of diffuse large B cell lymphoma of the activated B cell-like type

Priebe, Valdemar ; Sartori, Giulio ; Napoli, Sara ; Chung, Elaine Yee Lin ; Cascione, Luciano ; Kwee, Ivo ; Arribas, Alberto Jesus ; Mensah, Afua Adjeiwaa ; Rinaldi, Andrea ; Ponzoni, Maurilio ; Zucca, Emanuele ; Rossi, Davide ; Efremov, Dimitar ; Lenz, Georg ; Thome, Margot ; Bertoni, Francesco

In: Cancers, 2020, vol. 12, no. 7, p. 17 p

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a heterogenous disease that has been distinguished into at least two major molecular entities, the germinal center-like B cell (GCB) DLBCL and activated-like B cell (ABC) DLBCL, based on transcriptome expression profiling. A recurrent ch11q24.3 gain is observed in roughly a fourth of DLBCL cases resulting in the overexpression of two ETS transcription...

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A novel interaction between the TLR7 and a colchicine derivative revealed through a computational and experimental study

Gentile, Francesco ; Deriu, Marco A. ; Barakat, Khaled ; Danani, Andrea ; Tuszynski, Jack

In: Pharmaceuticals, 2018, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 22

The Toll-Like Receptor 7 (TLR7) is an endosomal membrane receptor involved in the innate immune system response. Its best-known small molecule activators are imidazoquinoline derivatives such as imiquimod (R-837) and resiquimod (R-848). Recently, an interaction between R-837 and the colchicine binding site of tubulin was reported. To investigate the possibility of an interaction between...

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The tim-3-galectin-9 secretory pathway is involved in the immune escape of human acute myeloid leukemia cells

Gonçalves Silva, Isabel ; Yasinska, Inna M. ; Sakhnevych, Svetlana S. ; Fiedler, Walter ; Wellbrock, Jasmin ; Bardelli, Marco ; Varani, Luca ; Hussain, Rohanah ; Siligardi, Giulio ; Ceccone, Giacomo ; Berger, Steffen M. ; Ushkaryov, Yuri A. ; Gibbs, Bernhard F. ; Fasler-Kan, Elizaveta ; Sumbayev, Vadim V.

In: Ebiomedicine, 2017, vol. 22, p. 44-57

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a severe and often fatal systemic malignancy. Malignant cells are capable of escaping host immune surveillance by inactivating cytotoxic lymphoid cells. In this work we discovered a fundamental molecular pathway, which includes ligand-dependent activation of ectopically expressed latrophilin 1 and possibly other G-protein coupled receptors leading to increased...

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Differential expression and biochemical activity of the immune receptor Tim-3 in healthy and malignant human myeloid cells

Gonçalves Silva, Isabel ; Gibbs, Bernhard F. ; Bardelli, Marco ; Varani, Luca ; Sumbayev, Vadim V.

In: Oncotarget, 2015, vol. 6, no. 32, p. 33823-33833

The T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain 3 (Tim-3) is a plasma membrane-associated receptor which is involved in a variety of biological responses in human immune cells. It is highly expressed in most acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) cells and therefore may serve as a possible target for AML therapy. However, its biochemical activities in primary human AML cells remain unclear. We therefore...