| Title: |
PTEN Function at the Interface between Cancer and Tumor Microenvironment: Implications for Response to Immunotherapy |
| Authors: |
Fabiana Conciatori; Chiara Bazzichetto; Italia Falcone; Ludovica Ciuffreda; Gianluigi Ferretti; Sabrina Vari; Virginia Ferraresi; Francesco Cognetti; Michele Milella |
| Source: |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol 21, Iss 5337, p 5337 (2020) |
| Publisher Information: |
MDPI AG |
| Publication Year: |
2020 |
| Collection: |
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
| Subject Terms: |
PTEN; cancer; immune cells; immunoevasion; immunotherapy; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Chemistry; QD1-999 |
| Description: |
Mounting preclinical and clinical evidence indicates that rewiring the host immune system in favor of an antitumor microenvironment achieves remarkable clinical efficacy in the treatment of many hematological and solid cancer patients. Nevertheless, despite the promising development of many new and interesting therapeutic strategies, many of these still fail from a clinical point of view, probably due to the lack of prognostic and predictive biomarkers. In that respect, several data shed new light on the role of the tumor suppressor phosphatase and tensin homolog on chromosome 10 (PTEN) in affecting the composition and function of the tumor microenvironment (TME) as well as resistance/sensitivity to immunotherapy. In this review, we summarize current knowledge on PTEN functions in different TME compartments (immune and stromal cells) and how they can modulate sensitivity/resistance to different immunological manipulations and ultimately influence clinical response to cancer immunotherapy |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/15/5337; https://doaj.org/toc/1661-6596; https://doaj.org/toc/1422-0067; https://doaj.org/article/a4f3c85b23e54106a184fcc16e3f7894 |
| DOI: |
10.3390/ijms21155337 |
| Availability: |
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21155337; https://doaj.org/article/a4f3c85b23e54106a184fcc16e3f7894 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.6436FD53 |
| Database: |
BASE |