ReviewCancers2022
USP7 Inhibitors in Cancer Immunotherapy: Current Status and Perspective.
Review in Cancers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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29 citing papers in PubMed, 31 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Protein Posttranslational Modifications in Immunity: Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Targets.MedComm · 2026Review
- USP7-stabilized CEBPB promotes HpSCC progression by upregulating IL6 to activate the JAK2/STAT3 signaling.Molecular and cellular biochemistry · 2026Article
- All-trans retinoic acid destabilizes ADAR1 protein through retinoylation-mediated USP7 dissociation and improves immunotherapy in pancreatic cancer.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Disrupting the USP1-UAF1 deubiquitinase complex: a master regulator of replication stress and frontier target in cancer therapy.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2026Review
- Pathological role of deubiquitinating enzymes in lung cancer: recent insights and advances.American journal of cancer research · 2026Review
- Emerging roles of USP7 in tumor immune evasion, metabolic reprogramming, and therapeutic resistance.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Therapy-Induced Senescence (TIS) and SASP: The p53-Mediated Interplay in Cancer Progression and Treatment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Targeting Ubiquitin-Specific Protease 7 (USP7): A Pharmacophore-Guided Drug Repurposing and Physics-Based Molecular Simulation Study.ACS omega · 2025Article
- USP7 Stabilizes USF1 to Aggravate ox-LDL-Induced Endothelial Injury Through the MYD88/NF-κB Pathway in Atherosclerosis.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Stereo-selectivity of enantiomeric inhibitors to ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7) dissected by molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, and binding free energy calculations.Molecular diversity · 2025Article
- Broad-spectrum ubiquitin-specific protease inhibition as a mechanism for the cytotoxicity of YM155 in cancers.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Ubiquitin-Specific Protease Inhibitors for Cancer Therapy: Recent Advances and Future Prospects.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Attractor Landscape Analysis Reveals a Reversion Switch in the Transition of Colorectal Tumorigenesis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- COP1 drives renal cell carcinoma progression by targeting ACSL4 for ubiquitin-mediated degradation and inhibiting ferroptosis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Ubiquitin-specific protease 7 maintains c-Myc stability to support pancreatic cancer glycolysis and tumor growth.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Article
- Review
- Breaking the shield of solid tumors: a combined approach for enhanced efficacy of CAR-T cells.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2024Review
- Cheminformatics-aided discovery of potential allosteric site modulators of ubiquitin-specific protease 7.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzyme E2 O (UBE2O) and Its Therapeutic Potential in Human Leukemias and Solid Tumors.Cancers · 2024Review
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Abstract
Ubiquitin-specific protease 7 (USP7) regulates the stability of a plethora of intracellular proteins involved in the suppression of anti-tumor immune responses and its overexpression is associated with poor survival in many cancers. USP7 impairs the balance of the p53/MDM2 axis resulting in the proteasomal degradation of the p53 tumor suppressor, a process that can be reversed by small-molecule inhibitors of USP7. USP7 was shown to regulate the anti-tumor immune responses in several cases. Its inhibition impedes the function of regulatory T cells, promotes polarization of tumor-associated macrophages, and reduces programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression in tumor cells. The efficacy of small-molecule USP7 inhibitors was demonstrated in vivo. The synergistic effect of combining USP7 inhibition with cancer immunotherapy is a promising therapeutic approach, though its clinical efficacy is yet to be proven. In this review, we focus on the recent developments in understanding the intrinsic role of USP7, its interplay with other molecular pathways, and the therapeutic potential of targeting USP7 functions.
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