Artículos de revistas
Galectins: emerging regulatory checkpoints linking tumor immunity and angiogenesis
Fecha
2017-01Registro en:
Mendez Huergo, Santiago Patricio; Blidner, Ada Gabriela; Rabinovich, Gabriel Adrián; Galectins: emerging regulatory checkpoints linking tumor immunity and angiogenesis; Elsevier; Current Opinion In Immunology; 45; 1-2017; 8-15
0952-7915
1879-0372
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Mendez Huergo, Santiago Patricio
Blidner, Ada Gabriela
Rabinovich, Gabriel Adrián
Resumen
Immune checkpoints, a plethora of inhibitory pathways aimed at maintaining immune cell homeostasis, may be co-opted by cancer cells to evade immune destruction. Therapies targeting immune checkpoints have reached a momentum yielding significant clinical benefits in patients with various malignancies by unleashing anti-tumor immunity. Galectins, a family of glycan-binding proteins, have emerged as novel regulatory checkpoints that promote immune evasive programs by inducing T-cell exhaustion, limiting T-cell survival, favoring expansion of regulatory T cells, de-activating natural killer cells and polarizing myeloid cells toward an immunosuppressive phenotype. Concomitantly, galectins can trigger vascular signaling programs, serving as bifunctional messengers that couple tumor immunity and angiogenesis. Thus, targeting galectin?glycan interactions may halt tumor progression by simultaneously augmenting antitumor immunity and suppressing aberrant angiogenesis.