Targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling for cancer immunotherapy

B Wang, T Tian, KH Kalland, X Ke, Y Qu - Trends in pharmacological …, 2018 - cell.com
B Wang, T Tian, KH Kalland, X Ke, Y Qu
Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2018cell.com
Despite the dramatic antitumor efficiency of certain immune checkpoint inhibitors,
immunotherapy has met a bottleneck regarding the response rate and resistance in cancer
patients. Increasing evidence indicates that Wnt/β-catenin signaling, one of the best-
characterized cancer drivers, promotes cancer progression by regulating the tumor-immune
cycle in most of the nodes, including dendritic cells, T cells, and tumor cells. Specifically,
abnormal Wnt/β-catenin signaling directly alters a number of regulators critical for the …
Despite the dramatic antitumor efficiency of certain immune checkpoint inhibitors, immunotherapy has met a bottleneck regarding the response rate and resistance in cancer patients. Increasing evidence indicates that Wnt/β-catenin signaling, one of the best-characterized cancer drivers, promotes cancer progression by regulating the tumor-immune cycle in most of the nodes, including dendritic cells, T cells, and tumor cells. Specifically, abnormal Wnt/β-catenin signaling directly alters a number of regulators critical for the antitumor activities of T cells, especially effector T cells, T helper cells, and regulatory T cells. We propose that targeting Wnt/β-catenin signaling would potentially improve clinical outcomes of cancer patients by overcoming the primary, adaptive, and acquired resistance to immunotherapy.
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