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Journal of Immunology Research Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Human Solid Tumors: Basic and Translational Aspects Guest Editors: Roberta Castriconi, Barbara Savoldo, Daniel Olive, and Fabio Pastorino Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Human Solid Tumors: Basic and Translational Aspects Journal of Immunology Research Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Human Solid Tumors: Basic and Translational Aspects Guest Editors: Roberta Castriconi, Barbara Savoldo, Daniel Olive, and Fabio Pastorino Copyright © 2016 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Journal of Immunology Research.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board B. D. Akanmori, Congo Eung-Jun Im, USA G. Opdenakker, Belgium Stuart Berzins, Australia Hidetoshi Inoko, Japan Luigina Romani, Italy Kurt Blaser, Switzerland Peirong Jiao, China Aurelia Rughetti, Italy Federico Bussolino, Italy Taro Kawai, Japan Takami Sato, USA N. G. Chakraborty, USA Hiroshi Kiyono, Japan Senthamil Selvan, USA Robert B. Clark, USA Shigeo Koido, Japan Naohiro Seo, Japan Mario Clerici, Italy Herbert K. Lyerly, USA Ethan M. Shevach, USA Nathalie Cools, Belgium Enrico Maggi, Italy George B. Stefano, USA Mark J. Dobrzanski, USA Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, USA T. J. Stewart, Australia Nejat K. Egilmez, USA Eiji Matsuura, Japan J. Tabarkiewicz, Poland Eyad Elkord, UK C. J. M. Melief, The Netherlands Ban-Hock Toh, Australia S. E. Finkelstein, USA Chikao Morimoto, Japan Joseph F. Urban, USA Luca Gattinoni, USA Hiroshi Nakajima, Japan Xiao-Feng Yang, USA David E. Gilham, UK Toshinori Nakayama, Japan Qiang Zhang, USA Douglas C. Hooper, USA Paola Nistico, Italy Contents Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Human Solid Tumors: Basic and Translational Aspects D. Olive, B. Savoldo, F. Pastorino, and R. Castriconi Volume 2016, Article ID 7853028, 2 pages NK Cells, Tumor Cell Transition, and Tumor Progression in Solid Malignancies: New Hints for NK-Based Immunotherapy? Claudia Cantoni, Leticia Huergo-Zapico, Monica Parodi, Marco Pedrazzi, Maria Cristina Mingari, Alessandro Moretta, Bianca Sparatore, Segundo Gonzalez, Daniel Olive, Cristina Bottino, Roberta Castriconi, and Massimo Vitale Volume 2016, Article ID 4684268, 13 pages Involvement of HMGB1 in Resistance to Tumor Vessel-Targeted, Monoclonal Antibody-Based Immunotherapy Vito Pistoia and Annalisa Pezzolo Volume 2016, Article ID 3142365, 7 pages Immune Checkpoint Modulators: An Emerging Antiglioma Armamentarium EileenS.Kim,JenniferE.Kim,MiraA.Patel,AntonellaMangraviti,JacobRuzevick,andMichaelLim Volume 2016, Article ID 4683607, 14 pages Clinical Options in Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma: An Updated Review Roberta Fedele, Massimo Martino, Anna Grazia Recchia, Giuseppe Irrera, Massimo Gentile, and Fortunato Morabito Volume 2015, Article ID 968212, 11 pages Serum CEACAM1 Elevation Correlates with Melanoma Progression and Failure to Respond to Adoptive Cell Transfer Immunotherapy R. Ortenberg, S. Sapoznik, D. Zippel, R. Shapira-Frommer, O. Itzhaki, A. Kubi, D. Zikich, M. J. Besser, J. Schachter, and G. Markel Volume 2015, Article ID 902137, 8 pages In Vitro and In Vivo Comparison of Lymphocytes Transduced with a Human CD16 or with a Chimeric Antigen Receptor Reveals Potential Off-Target Interactions due to the IgG2 CH2-CH3 CAR-Spacer Béatrice Clémenceau, Sandrine Valsesia-Wittmann, Anne-Catherine Jallas, Régine Vivien, Raphaël Rousseau, Aurélien Marabelle, Christophe Caux, and Henri Vié Volume 2015, Article ID 482089, 13 pages Regulation of Murine Ovarian Epithelial Carcinoma by Vaccination against the Cytoplasmic Domain of Anti-Müllerian Hormone Receptor II Cagri Sakalar, Suparna Mazumder, Justin M. Johnson, Cengiz Z. Altuntas, Ritika Jaini, Robert Aguilar, Sathyamangla V. Naga Prasad, Denise C. Connolly, and Vincent K. Tuohy Volume 2015, Article ID 630287, 13 pages Immune Checkpoint Modulation in Colorectal Cancer: What’s New and What to Expect Julie Jacobs, Evelien Smits, Filip Lardon, Patrick Pauwels, and Vanessa Deschoolmeester Volume 2015, Article ID 158038, 16 pages Gene Expression Profile of Dendritic Cell-Tumor Cell Hybrids Determined by Microarrays and Its Implications for Cancer Immunotherapy Jens Dannull, Chunrui Tan, Christine Farrell, Cynthia Wang, Scott Pruitt, Smita K. Nair, and Walter T. Lee Volume2015,ArticleID789136,10pages Cellular and Antibody Based Approaches for Pediatric Cancer Immunotherapy MichaelA.Huang,DeepaK.Krishnadas,andKennethG.Lucas Volume 2015, Article ID 675269, 7 pages Pros and Cons of Antigen-Presenting Cell Targeted Tumor Vaccines Cleo Goyvaerts and Karine Breckpot Volume 2015, Article ID 785634, 18 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Immunology Research Volume 2016, Article ID 7853028, 2 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/7853028 Editorial Immunotherapy in the Treatment of Human Solid Tumors: Basic and Translational Aspects D. Olive,1,2,3 B. Savoldo,4 F. Pastorino,5 and R. Castriconi6,7 1 Centre de Recherche en Cancerologie de Marseille, Inserm, 13009 Marseille, France 2Aix Marseille Universite,´ 13009 Marseille, France 3Institut Paoli-Calmettes, 13009 Marseille, France 4Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Pediatrics/Hematology-Oncology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA 5LaboratoriodiOncologia,IstitutoG.Gaslini,16147Genova,Italy 6Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Universita` degli Studi di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy 7Centro di Eccellenza per le Ricerche Biomediche, Universita` degli Studi di Genova, 16132 Genova, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to R. Castriconi; [email protected] Received 3 May 2016; Accepted 4 May 2016 Copyright © 2016 D. Olive et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The limited substantial therapeutic progresses observed in of them describe new possible mechanisms promoting tumor thetreatmentofsolidtumorsrequireconcertedeffortsto resistance to effector cell- (like NK cells) mediated aggres- combine our thorough knowledge of the tumor biology with sion or to chemotherapy in the tumor microenvironment a broader comprehension of the main mechanisms regulating favoring tumor progression. Special interest is directed to antitumor immune responses. In this context, in the last the possible role for peritumoral NK cells in shaping tumor decade, in parallel to the changeless therapeutic quest for tar- epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and aggressiveness. geting molecules responsible for tumor progression, we have C. Goyvaerts and K. Breckpot provide here a useful and witnessed a growing consensus on the potential strong effi- comprehensive summary of the current knowledge on the cacy of combined immunotherapeutic approaches. Recently, efficacy of vaccination strategies, which differ in the quality these strategies, which include cancer vaccine developments, of the dispensed antigens and adjuvants, in the modalities strenuously pursued for many years, have mainly focused of antigen delivery, and in the targeted dendritic cells (DC) on breaking critical inhibitory immune checkpoint pathways subtypes. J. Dannull and colleagues deepen the reasons (i.e., PD1/PD-Ls axes), which limit the tumor aggression for the low immunogenicity of immunotherapy strategies by different immune cells including natural killer (NK) based on the infusion of DC-tumor hybrids alone, without and T lymphocytes. The strengthening of such endogenous adjuvants, whereas another contribution by C. Sakalar and cytolytic effectors, complemented by favoring their migration coworkers shows the immunogenic potential of AMHR2 toward tumors, and/or the infusion of cells engineered with (anti-Mullerian¨ hormone receptor II) molecule in murine improved function (i.e., with chimeric antigen receptors) is models. The efficacy of different vaccination strategies has widely considered in additional therapeutic protocols aimed also been discussed by M. A. Huang and colleagues in the at obtaining a more durable tumor growth control. This goal context of pediatric cancer, especially in terms of antibody- may also relate to the type of the hematopoietic stem cell and cellular-based therapeutic approaches. These latest inter- transplantation (HSCT) utilized, if included in the treatment ventions include chimeric antigen receptor- (CAR-) T cell of the malignancy. based strategies, targeting different antigens in both solid The papers featured in this issue provide useful informa- tumorsandBcellleukemia.Alongthisline,B.Clemenceau´ tion for these rapidly moving above-mentioned fields. Some and colleagues show in vitro the efficacy of CAR-NK92 cells 2 Journal of Immunology Research targeting the HER-2 antigen in breast cancer, but discourag- −/− ing in vivo activity in a NOD/SCID/IL-2Rg mouse model, due to an off-target effect of the CH2-CH3 hIgG2 spacer of the CAR construct. By interacting with macrophages at the edge of the tumor, the presence of the spacer in the CAR blocked these engineered cells at the periphery of the engrafted tumors, emphasizing critical issues for therapeutic approaches based on engineered molecules and the need for recruitment of effector cells in the tumor mass to obtain clinical benefits. This last point has been also discussed
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  • FKBP Family Proteins: Immunophilins with Versatile Biological Functions

    FKBP Family Proteins: Immunophilins with Versatile Biological Functions

    This document is downloaded from DR‑NTU (https://dr.ntu.edu.sg) Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. FKBP family proteins : immunophilins with versatile biological functions Kang, Cong Bao; Ye, Hong; Dhe‑Paganon, Sirano; Yoon, Ho Sup 2008 Kang, C. B., Ye, H., Dhe‑Paganon, S., & Yoon, H. S. (2008). FKBP family proteins : immunophilins with versatile biological functions. Neurosignals, 16(4), 318–325. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95238 https://doi.org/10.1159/000123041 © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Neurosignals, S. Karger AG, Basel. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000123041. Downloaded on 28 Sep 2021 01:49:48 SGT FKBP Family Proteins: Immunophilins with Versatile Biological Functions Cong Bao Kang a, Hong Ye a, Sirano Dhe-Paganon b, Ho Sup Yoon a,* a School of Biological Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore , Singapore; b Structural Genomics Consortium and Physiology, Banting Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. , Canada * Tel. +65 6316 2846, Fax +65 6791 3856, E-Mail [email protected] Key Words Immunophilin • FK506-binding protein • Peptidylprolyl cis/trans isomerase • Immunophilin ligand • Neuroprotection • FK506 • Rapamycin Abstract Immunophilins consist of a family of highly conserved proteins binding with immunosuppressive drugs such as FK506, rapamycin and cyclosporin A. FK506-binding protein (FKBP) is one of two major immunophilins and most of FKBP family members bind FK506 and show peptidylprolyl cis/trans isomerase (PPIase) activity.