miR-153 suppresses IDO1 expression and enhances CAR T cell immunotherapy

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in converting tryptophan to kynurenine. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are T cells with recombinant receptors targeting ...

Authors: Qian Huang, Jiajia Xia, Lei Wang, Xu Wang, Xiaodong Ma, Qipan Deng, Yong Lu, Munish Kumar, Zhiyuan Zhou, Ling Li, Zhaoyang Zeng, Ken H. Young, Qing Yi, Mingzhi Zhang and Yong Li

Advances in CD30- and PD-1-targeted therapies for classical Hodgkin lymphoma

CD30 and programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) are two ideal therapeutic targets in classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). The CD30 antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) brentuximab vedotin and the PD-1 antibodies nivolum...

Authors: Yucai Wang, Grzegorz S. Nowakowski, Michael L. Wang and Stephen M. Ansell

Correction to: miR-182-5p promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression by repressing FOXO3a

The original article [1] contains an error in Fig. 5a whereby the Western blot bands representing CyclinD1 have mistakenly been duplicated over the Western blot bands intended to represent SGK.

Authors: Man-Qing Cao, A-Bin You, Xiao-Dong Zhu, Wei Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Shi-Zhe Zhang, Kei-wei Zhang, Hao Cai, Wen-Kai Shi, Xiao-Long Li, Kang-Shuai Li, Dong-Mei Gao, De-Ning Ma, Bo-Gen Ye, Cheng-Hao Wang, Cheng-Dong Qin…

Unmanipulated haploidentical in comparison with matched unrelated donor stem cell transplantation in patients 60 years and older with acute myeloid leukemia: a comparative study on behalf of the ALWP of the EBMT

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is both more common and with more biologically aggressive phenotype in the elderly. Allogenic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is the best treatment option in fit patients. Eit...

Authors: Nicole Santoro, Myriam Labopin, Federica Giannotti, Gerard Ehninger, Dietger Niederwieser, Arne Brecht, Matthias Stelljes, Nicolaus Kröger, Herman Einsele, Matthias Eder, Michael Hallek, Bertram Glass, Jürgen Finke, Fabio Ciceri, Mohamad Mohty, Annalisa Ruggeri…

Exosomal miRNAs in hepatocellular carcinoma development and clinical responses

Hepatocellular carcinoma remains the sixth most lethal malignancy in the world. While HCC is often diagnosed via current biomarkers at a late stage, early detection of HCC has proven to be very difficult. Rece...

Authors: Shuangshuang Li, Jiping Yao, Mingjie Xie, Yanning Liu and Min Zheng

DACH1 antagonizes CXCL8 to repress tumorigenesis of lung adenocarcinoma and improve prognosis

C-X-C motif ligand 8 (CXCL8), known as a proinflammatory chemokine, exerts multiple effects on the proliferation, invasion, and migration of tumor cells via the autocrine or paracrine manner. Conversely, the h...

Authors: Qian Liu, Anping Li, Shengnan Yu, Shuang Qin, Na Han, Richard G. Pestell, Xinwei Han and Kongming Wu

Expression levels of long non-coding RNAs are prognostic for AML outcome

Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) expression has been implicated in a range of molecular mechanisms that are central in cancer. However, lncRNA expression has not yet been comprehensively characterized in acute mye...

Authors: Arvind Singh Mer, Johan Lindberg, Christer Nilsson, Daniel Klevebring, Mei Wang, Henrik Grönberg, Soren Lehmann and Mattias Rantalainen

Correction to: Role of protein kinases CK1α and CK2 in multiple myeloma: regulation of pivotal survival and stress-managing pathways

The original article [1] contains an inadvertent error in the following sentence in the Abstract regarding the erroneous description of Ser/Thr kinases as ‘phylogenetically related’:

Authors: Sabrina Manni, Marilena Carrino and Francesco Piazza

Response and progression-free survival according to planned treatment duration in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma treated with carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (KRd) versus lenalidomide and dexamethasone (Rd) in the phase III ASPIRE study

In ASPIRE, carfilzomib, lenalidomide, and dexamethasone (KRd) significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) and response rates versus lenalidomide and dexamethasone (Rd) in patients with relapsed mult...

Authors: Meletios Dimopoulos, Michael Wang, Vladimir Maisnar, Jiri Minarik, William Bensinger, Maria-Victoria Mateos, Mihaela Obreja, Julie Blaedel and Philippe Moreau

Increased B3GALNT2 in hepatocellular carcinoma promotes macrophage recruitment via reducing acetoacetate secretion and elevating MIF activity

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks as the sixth most prevalent cancer and the third leading cause of tumor-related death, so it is urgently needed to discover efficient markers and targets for therapy. β-1,3-N-...

Authors: Tianxiao Yang, Yilin Wang, Wenjuan Dai, Xixi Zheng, Jing Wang, Shushu Song, Lan Fang, Jiangfan Zhou, Weicheng Wu and Jianxin Gu

Modulating PD-L1 expression in multiple myeloma: an alternative strategy to target the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway

Even with recent advances in therapy regimen, multiple myeloma patients commonly develop drug resistance and relapse. The relevance of targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis has been demonstrated in pre-clinical models...

Authors: Rosemarie Tremblay-LeMay, Nasrin Rastgoo and Hong Chang

Multiple functions of m⁶A RNA methylation in cancer

First identified in 1974, m⁶A RNA methylation, which serves as a predominant internal modification of RNA in higher eukaryotes, has gained prodigious interest in recent years. Modifications of m⁶A are dynamic and...

Authors: Yutian Pan, Pei Ma, Yu Liu, Wei Li and Yongqian Shu

Gut microbiome modulates efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) therapy is a novel strategy for cancer treatments in recent years. However, it was observed that most patients treated with ICIs could not get benefit from the therapy, whic...

Authors: Ming Yi, Shengnan Yu, Shuang Qin, Qian Liu, Hanxiao Xu, Weiheng Zhao, Qian Chu and Kongming Wu

MiR-16 regulates the pro-tumorigenic potential of lung fibroblasts through the inhibition of HGF production in an FGFR-1- and MEK1-dependent manner

Fibroblasts are crucial mediators of tumor-stroma cross-talk through synthesis and remodeling of the extracellular matrix and production of multiple soluble factors. Nonetheless, little is still known about sp...

Authors: Francesca Andriani, Maria Teresa Majorini, Miguel Mano, Elena Landoni, Rosalba Miceli, Federica Facchinetti, Mavis Mensah, Enrico Fontanella, Matteo Dugo, Mauro Giacca, Ugo Pastorino, Gabriella Sozzi, Domenico Delia, Luca Roz and Daniele Lecis

Accurate control of dual-receptor-engineered T cell activity through a bifunctional anti-angiogenic peptide

Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) presented on T cell surfaces enable redirection of T cell specificity, which has enormous promise in antitumor therapy. However, excessive activity and poor control over such ...

Authors: Erhao Zhang, Jieyi Gu, Jianpeng Xue, Chenyu Lin, Chen Liu, Mengwei Li, Jingchao Hao, Sarra Setrerrahmane, Xiaowei Chi, Weiyan Qi, Jialiang Hu and Hanmei Xu

The proto-oncogene Mer tyrosine kinase is a novel therapeutic target in mantle cell lymphoma

Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) is an incurable B cell-derived malignant tumor with a median overall survival of 4–5 years. Mer tyrosine kinase (MerTK) has been reported to be aberrantly expressed in leukemia, mela...

Authors: Cunzhen Shi, Xiangqun Li, Xiaogan Wang, Ning Ding, Lingyan Ping, Yunfei Shi, Lan Mi, Yumei Lai, Yuqin Song and Jun Zhu

Long-term effects of ruxolitinib versus best available therapy on bone marrow fibrosis in patients with myelofibrosis

Myelofibrosis (MF) is a life-shortening complication of myeloproliferative neoplasms associated with ineffective hematopoiesis, splenomegaly, and progressive bone marrow (BM) fibrosis. The oral Janus kinase (J...

Authors: Hans Michael Kvasnicka, Jürgen Thiele, Carlos E. Bueso-Ramos, William Sun, Jorge Cortes, Hagop M. Kantarjian and Srdan Verstovsek

Next generation of immune checkpoint therapy in cancer: new developments and challenges

Immune checkpoints consist of inhibitory and stimulatory pathways that maintain self-tolerance and assist with immune response. In cancer, immune checkpoint pathways are often activated to inhibit the nascent ...

Authors: Julian A. Marin-Acevedo, Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, Aixa E. Soyano, Keith L. Knutson, Saranya Chumsri and Yanyan Lou

Post-transplant cyclophosphamide for graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis in HLA matched sibling or matched unrelated donor transplant for patients with acute leukemia, on behalf of ALWP-EBMT

Experience using post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PT-Cy) as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis in allogeneic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) from matched sibling donors (MSD) or unrelated donors (U...

Authors: Annalisa Ruggeri, Myriam Labopin, Andrea Bacigalupo, Boris Afanasyev, Jan J. Cornelissen, Ahmet Elmaagacli, Maija Itälä-Remes, Didier Blaise, Ellen Meijer, Yener Koc, Noel Milpied, Harry C. Schouten, Nicolaus Kroeger, Mohamad Mohty and Arnon Nagler

CD19 CAR-T cell therapy for relapsed/refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia: factors affecting toxicities and long-term efficacies

The prognosis of adults with relapsed/refractory (R/R) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) remains dismal even at this day and age. With salvage chemotherapy, only 29% (range 18 to 44%) of the patients with R/R...

Authors: Li-Na Zhang, Yongping Song and Delong Liu

Correction to: The first-in-class alkylating deacetylase inhibitor molecule tinostamustine shows antitumor effects and is synergistic with radiotherapy in preclinical models of glioblastoma

The original article [1] contained an error whereby Fig. 4 displayed incorrect magnification scales.

Authors: C. Festuccia, A. Mancini, A. Colapietro, G. L. Gravina, F. Vitale, F. Marampon, S. Delle Monache, S. Pompili, L. Cristiano, A. Vetuschi, V. Tombolini, Y. Chen and T. Mehrling

Correction to: PD-1 axis expression in musculoskeletal tumors and antitumor effect of nivolumab in osteosarcoma model of humanized mouse

The original article [1] contained an error in Table 1 whereby the ‘Positive’ column in the ‘PD-L1’ Tumor type group of columns was mistakenly included at the beginning of the ‘PD-L2’ Tumor type group of columns.

Authors: Bingxin Zheng, Tingting Ren, Yi Huang, Kunkun Sun, Shidong Wang, Xing Bao, Kuisheng Liu and Wei Guo

A loss-of-function genetic screening reveals synergistic targeting of AKT/mTOR and WTN/β-catenin pathways for treatment of AML with high PRL-3 phosphatase

Protein tyrosine phosphatase of regenerating liver 3 (PRL-3) is overexpressed in a subset of AML patients with inferior prognosis, representing an attractive therapeutic target. However, due to relatively shal...

Authors: Jianbiao Zhou, Sabrina Hui-Min Toh, Zit-Liang Chan, Jessie Yiying Quah, Jing-Yuan Chooi, Tuan Zea Tan, Phyllis S. Y. Chong, Qi Zeng and Wee-Joo Chng

The consensus on indications, conditioning regimen, and donor selection of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for hematological diseases in China—recommendations from the Chinese Society of Hematology

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is widely used to treat malignant hematological neoplasms and non-malignant hematological disorders. Approximately, 5000 allo-HSCT procedures are ...

Authors: Lanping Xu, Hu Chen, Jing Chen, Mingzhe Han, He Huang, Yongrong Lai, Daihong Liu, Qifa Liu, Ting Liu, Ming Jiang, Hanyun Ren, Yongping Song, Zimin Sun, Jianmin Wang, Depei Wu, Daobin Zhou…

Standardizing haematopoietic cell transplants in China

Authors: Robert Peter Gale