Semin Immunol. 2025 Jul 18;79:101978. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101978. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT All known life forms feature a dense ensemble of cell surface and extracellular glycans. In vertebrates this includes a high density of sialic acids (Sias), a family of acidic sugars typically capping glycans of cell surface or secreted glycoproteins and glycolipids. Since Sia … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 Jun 25;79:101977. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101977. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Oncolytic viruses have played a pioneering role in establishing immunotherapies as the next generation of anti-cancer medicines. Recent works have highlighted the impact the tumour microenvironment has on the efficacy of immunotherapies like oncolytic viruses, as well as the ability of oncolytic viruses … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 Jun 24;79:101976. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101976. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT The complement system, a key component of innate immunity, has a paradoxical role in cancer, acting both as a tumor suppressor and a promoter. While traditionally recognized for its extracellular immune functions, recent discoveries highlight non-canonical, intracellular roles in tumor progression. These findings … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 Jun 23;79:101975. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101975. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT The pivotal involvement of the host immune system in cancer therapy has dramatically reshaped therapeutic paradigms, inaugurating the era of immunotherapy. Nonetheless, antigen-specific immunotherapies encounter substantial hurdles within the highly immunosuppressive microenvironment of glioblastoma (GBM), which thwarts antitumor T-cell immunity. Oncolytic viruses (OVs), … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 Jun 16;79:101974. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101974. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Protein-glycan interactions, mediated by lectins, are essential for diverse physiological processes, including glycoprotein processing, cell adhesion, communication, signaling, and immune recognition. Lectins, classified into families like C-type, I-type, F-type, and galectins, recognize specific glycans on macromolecules through their carbohydrate recognition domains (CRDs). Galectins, … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 May 20;78:101965. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101965. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Emerging observations at the molecular, cellular, and organismal levels have unveiled critical roles for glycans in regulating a broad range of innate and adaptive immune cell processes. Through interactions with various families of glycan-binding proteins, including galectins, C-type lectins, and siglecs, glycans shape … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 May 15;78:101963. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101963. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT The tumor microenvironment (TME) consists of various immune and non-immune cells, along with proteins from different origins, and plays a crucial role in tumor development, treatment response, and patient prognosis. Complement system is a key player in the TME. It is a proteolytic … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 May 14;78:101962. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101962. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Narcolepsy type 1 (NT1) is a chronic orphan neurological sleep disorder characterized by the loss of hypocretin-producing neurons in the lateral hypothalamus, which play a crucial role in wakefulness. Given the genetic association with the HLA-DQB1 * 06:02 allele and environmental links with … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 May 9;78:101964. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101964. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Vaccines induce quantitively and qualitatively different effector responses between populations but also between individuals within populations. Several factors are known to affect the success of vaccination, including age, gender, co-infections (e.g. HIV), pre-existing inflammatory status and co-morbidities such as type 2 diabetes mellitus … Read more
Semin Immunol. 2025 Apr 28;78:101961. doi: 10.1016/j.smim.2025.101961. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Celiac disease and food-allergy are both food-related chronic immune disorders with a common pathogenic link being breakdown in the gut tolerance to otherwise innocuous food antigens. Notwithstanding the similarities, there are significant differences in the pathogenesis of both disorders, which translates to variations … Read more
