ArticleCancers2022
Repositioning Fenofibrate to Reactivate p53 and Reprogram the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment in HPV+ Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
Article in Cancers, 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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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Understanding and treating HPV-associated oropharyngeal carcinoma: insights from a MedNewsWeek Keynote lecture by Dr Theodoros N. Teknos and literature review.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2025Review
- Blocking the WNT/β-catenin pathway in cancer treatment:pharmacological targets and drug therapeutic potential.Heliyon · 2024Review
- PPARα Agonism Enhances Immune Response to Radiotherapy While Dietary Oleic Acid Results in Counteraction.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024Article
- Human Papilloma Virus Positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma and the Immune System: Pathogenesis, Immunotherapy and Future Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Tumor hypoxia and role of hypoxia-inducible factor in oral cancer.World journal of surgical oncology · 2024Review
- Readily available drugs and other interventions to potentially improve the efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in cancer.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Association between abnormal lipid metabolism and tumor.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Drug Repurposing to Enhance Antitumor Response to PD-1/PD-L1 Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.Cancers · 2022Review
- Hyperactivating p53 in Human Papillomavirus-Driven Cancers: A Potential Therapeutic Intervention.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2022Review
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Abstract
Human papillomavirus-associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HPV+ HNSCC) is recognized as a distinct disease with unique etiology and clinical features. Current standard of care therapeutic modalities are identical for HPV+ and HPV- HNSCC and thus, there remains an opportunity to develop innovative pharmacologic approaches to exploit the inherent vulnerabilities of HPV+ HNSCC. In this study, using an inducible HPVE6E7 knockdown system, we found that HPV+ HNSCC cells are addicted to HPVE6E7, such that loss of these viral oncogenes impaired tumorigenicity in vitro and in vivo. A number of druggable pathways, including PPAR and Wnt, were modulated in response to HPVE6E7 loss. Fenofibrate showed significant anti-proliferative effects in a panel of HPV+ cancer cell lines. Additionally, fenofibrate impaired tumor growth as monotherapy and potentiated the activity of cisplatin in a pre-clinical HPV+ animal model. Systemic fenofibrate treatment induced p53 protein accumulation, and surprisingly, re-programmed the tumor-immune microenvironment to drive immune cell infiltration. Since fenofibrate is FDA-approved with a favorable long-term safety record, repositioning of this drug, as a single agent or in combination with cisplatin or checkpoint blockade, for the HPV+ HNSCC setting should be prioritized.
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