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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2025

Targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 Signaling Pathway for Cancer Therapy: Focus on Biomarkers.

Areti Strati, Christos Adamopoulos, Ioannis Kotsantis, Amanda Psyrri, Evi Lianidou, Athanasios G Papavassiliou

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Areti StratiAnalysis of Circulating Tumor Cells, Lab of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-9644-5538
Christos AdamopoulosDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6323-4216
Ioannis KotsantisDepartment of Medical Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Amanda PsyrriDepartment of Medical Oncology, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Evi LianidouAnalysis of Circulating Tumor Cells, Lab of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 15771 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7796-5914
Athanasios G PapavassiliouDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11527 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-5803-4527

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The PD1/PD-L1 axis plays an important immunosuppressive role during the T-cell-mediated immune response, which is essential for the physiological homeostasis of the immune system. The biology of the immunological microenvironment is extremely complex and crucial for the development of treatment strategies for immunotherapy. Characterization of the immunological, genomic or transcriptomic landscape of cancer patients could allow discrimination between responders and non-responders to anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy. Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy has shown remarkable efficacy in a variety of malignancies in landmark trials and has fundamentally changed cancer therapy. Current research focuses on strategies to maximize patient selection for therapy, clarify mechanisms of resistance, improve existing biomarkers, including PD-L1 expression and tumor mutational burden (TMB), and discover new biomarkers. In this review, we focus on the function of the PD-1/PD-L1 signaling pathway and discuss the immunological, genomic, epigenetic and transcriptomic landscape in cancer patients receiving anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy. Finally, we provide an overview of the clinical trials testing the efficacy of antibodies against PD-1/PD-L1.

Indexed as

B7-H1 AntigenBiomarkers, TumorImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsNeoplasmsProgrammed Cell Death 1 ReceptorSignal TransductionAnimalsHumansImmunotherapyTumor MicroenvironmentB7-H1 AntigenBiomarkers, TumorCD274 protein, humanImmune Checkpoint InhibitorsPDCD1 protein, humanProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptorgenomic landscapeimmune checkpoint inhibitorimmunological landscapePD1/PD-L1transcriptomic landscape

Identifiers

PMID39941003
PMCPMC11818137

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