Roles of natural killer cells in immunity to cancer, and applications to immunotherapy

NK Wolf, DU Kissiov, DH Raulet�- Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Great strides have been made in recent years towards understanding the roles of natural
killer (NK) cells in immunity to tumours and viruses. NK cells are cytotoxic innate lymphoid�…

Engineering IL-2 for immunotherapy of autoimmunity and cancer

R Hernandez, J P�der, KM LaPorte…�- Nature Reviews�…, 2022 - nature.com
Preclinical studies of the T cell growth factor activity of IL-2 resulted in this cytokine
becoming the first immunotherapy to be approved nearly 30 years ago by the US Food and�…

Natural killer cells and other innate lymphoid cells in cancer

L Chiossone, PY Dumas, M Vienne…�- Nature Reviews�…, 2018 - nature.com
Immuno-oncology is an emerging field that has revolutionized cancer treatment. Most
immunomodulatory strategies focus on enhancing T cell responses, but there has been a�…

[HTML][HTML] PD-1-cis IL-2R agonism yields better effectors from stem-like CD8+ T cells

L Codarri Deak, V Nicolini, M Hashimoto, M Karagianni…�- Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Expansion and differentiation of antigen-experienced PD-1+ TCF-1+ stem-like CD8+ T cells
into effector cells is critical for the success of immunotherapies based on PD-1 blockade�…

Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone�- Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In�…

Combination cancer immunotherapies: Emerging treatment strategies adapted to the tumor microenvironment

N Kirchhammer, MP Trefny, P Auf der Maur…�- Science translational�…, 2022 - science.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However,
resistance to ICB occurs frequently due to tumor-intrinsic alterations or extrinsic factors in the�…

[HTML][HTML] Designing cancer immunotherapies that engage T cells and NK cells

O Kyrysyuk, KW Wucherpfennig�- Annual review of immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
T cells and natural killer (NK) cells have complementary roles in tumor immunity, and dual T
cell and NK cell attack thus offers opportunities to deepen the impact of immunotherapy�…

Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors

GM Allen, NW Frankel, NR Reddy, HK Bhargava…�- Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are ineffective against solid tumors with
immunosuppressive microenvironments. To overcome suppression, we engineered circuits�…

[HTML][HTML] Control of metastasis by NK cells

A L�pez-Soto, S Gonzalez, MJ Smyth, L Galluzzi�- Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
The metastatic spread of malignant cells to distant anatomical locations is a prominent
cause of cancer-related death. Metastasis is governed by cancer-cell-intrinsic mechanisms�…

An engineered IL-2 partial agonist promotes CD8+ T cell stemness

F Mo, Z Yu, P Li, J Oh, R Spolski, L Zhao, CR Glassman…�- Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Adoptive transfer of antigen-specific T cells represents a major advance in cancer
immunotherapy, with robust clinical outcomes in some patients. Both the number of�…