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Drivers of centrosome abnormalities: Senescence progression and tumor immune escape
Tao Jiang1, Hua Jin2, Xintong Ji3
1Medicine Innovation Research Division of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China.
Abstract:
Centrosome abnormalities are a distinguishing feature of cancer and play a role in the aging process. Cancer cells may evade the immune system by activating immune checkpoints, altering their surrounding microenvironment, abnormalities in antigen presentation and recognition, and metabolic reprogramming to inhibit T-cell activity, allowing cancer cells to survive and spread within the host. When the centrosomes are abnormally shaped or numbered, mitotic errors can occur, cellular senescence occurs, cell death occurs, genomic instability occurs, and aneuploidy forms, resulting in diseases such as cancer. The present study is exploring the strategy of research progress in which centrosome abnormalities contribute to the aging process in various different ways as well as fuel immune escape from cancer cells, providing a new direction for cancer immunotherapy.
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