ReviewCell death & disease2020
Exploiting immune-dependent effects of microtubule-targeting agents to improve efficacy and tolerability of cancer treatment.
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Abstract
Microtubule-targeting agents (MTAs), like taxanes and vinca alkaloids, are tubulin-binding drugs that are very effective in the treatment of various types of cancers. In cell cultures, these drugs appear to affect assembly of the mitotic spindle and to delay progression through mitosis and this correlates with their ability to induce cell death. Their clinical efficacy is, however, limited by resistance and toxicity. For these reasons, other spindle-targeting drugs, affecting proteins such as certain kinesins like Eg5 and CENP-E, or kinases like Plk1, Aurora A and B, have been developed as an alternative to MTAs. However, these attempts have disappointed in the clinic since these drugs show poor anticancer activity and toxicity ahead of positive effects. In addition, whether efficacy of MTAs in cancer treatment is solely due to their ability to delay mitosis progression remains controversial. Here we discuss recent findings indicating that the taxane paclitaxel can promote a proinflammatory response by activation of innate immunity. We further describe how this can help adaptive antitumor immune response and suggest, on this basis and on the recent success of immune checkpoint inhibitors in cancer treatment, that a combination therapy based on low doses of taxanes and immune checkpoint inhibitors may be of high clinical advantage in terms of wide applicability, reduced toxicity, and increased antitumor response.
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