ReviewFrontiers in oncology2022
The promise of targeting heme and mitochondrial respiration in normalizing tumor microenvironment and potentiating immunotherapy.
Review in Frontiers in oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- The paradoxical prognostic effects of T-cell-derived circulating DNA in EGFR-mutated advanced non-small-cell lung cancer involve the crosstalk between heme biosynthesis and immune microenvironment.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Cell Secretomes Modify Metabolomes ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Navigating heme pathways: the breach of heme oxygenase and hemin in breast cancer.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2025Review
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- Metabolic Atlas of Human Eyelid Infiltrative Basal Cell Carcinoma.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy Synergizing with Inhibition of Tumor Neutrophil Ferroptosis Boosts Anti-PD-1 Therapy of Gastric Cancer.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Heme catabolism and heme oxygenase-1-expressing myeloid cells in pathophysiology.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Cancer immunotherapy shows durable treatment responses and therapeutic benefits compared to other cancer treatment modalities, but many cancer patients display primary and acquired resistance to immunotherapeutics. Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) is a major barrier to cancer immunotherapy. Notably, cancer cells depend on high mitochondrial bioenergetics accompanied with the supply of heme for their growth, proliferation, progression, and metastasis. This excessive mitochondrial respiration increases tumor cells oxygen consumption, which triggers hypoxia and irregular blood vessels formation in various regions of TME, resulting in an immunosuppressive TME, evasion of anti-tumor immunity, and resistance to immunotherapeutic agents. In this review, we discuss the role of heme, heme catabolism, and mitochondrial respiration on mediating immunosuppressive TME by promoting hypoxia, angiogenesis, and leaky tumor vasculature. Moreover, we discuss the therapeutic prospects of targeting heme and mitochondrial respiration in alleviating tumor hypoxia, normalizing tumor vasculature, and TME to restore anti-tumor immunity and resensitize cancer cells to immunotherapy.
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