Engineering IL-2 to give new life to T cell immunotherapy

WW Overwijk, MA Tagliaferri… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
… T cells (Teffs) without inducing regulatory T cells (Tregs) in the tumor microenvironment;
conversely, IL-2 … High-dose IL-2 is approved for melanoma and renal cell carcinoma, but its …

Engineering IL-2 for immunotherapy of autoimmunity and cancer

R Hernandez, J Põder, KM LaPorte… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
… T cell growth factor activity of IL-2 resulted in this cytokine becoming the first immunotherapy
… -dose IL-2 as a first-line immunotherapy for metastatic renal cell carcinoma and melanoma. …

Engineering a designer immunotherapy

CL Mackall - Science, 2018 - science.org
… T cell immunotherapy for melanoma, they administered orthoIL-2 to mice that received
infusions of transgenic T cells that recognize a peptide expressed by the melanoma cells. Prior to …

The application of Interleukin-2 family cytokines in tumor immunotherapy research

Y Zhou, G Quan, Y Liu, N Shi, Y Wu, R Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… This article reviews the latter type of engineering strategy. In addition, some researchers have
… Antibody-targeted interleukin 2 stimulates T-cell killing of autologous tumor cells. Proc Natl …

IL-2: the first effective immunotherapy for human cancer

SA Rosenberg - The Journal of Immunology, 2014 - journals.aai.org
… of these cells after expansion in IL-2 have extended effective cell transfer therapy to other …
, efforts have turned to the genetic engineering of lymphocytes to express receptors capable of …

IL-2 and beyond in cancer immunotherapy

JM Wrangle, A Patterson, CB Johnson… - Journal of Interferon & …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
… natural killer (NK) cell growth factor IL-2 has been a sentinel force ushering in the era of
immunotherapy in cancer. With the advent of clinical grade recombinant IL-2 in the mid-1980s, …

IL-2 delivery by engineered mesenchymal stem cells re-invigorates CD8+ T cells to overcome immunotherapy resistance in cancer

J Bae, L Liu, C Moore, E Hsu, A Zhang, Z Ren… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
… role of endogenous IL-2 for ICB responsiveness and the correlation between insufficient IL-2
signalling and T-cell exhaustion as tumours progress. To determine if exogenous IL-2 in the …

Cytokine engineering for targeted cancer immunotherapy

L Bonati, L Tang - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021 - Elsevier
… expressed on cytotoxic T cells and natural killer (NK) cells, while trimeric … T cells for cancer
therapy, many engineering efforts have been focused on altering the binding affinity of IL-2

Engineering NK-92 cell by upregulating CXCR2 and IL-2 Via CRISPR-Cas9 improves its antitumor effects as cellular immunotherapy for human colon cancer

L Gao, L Yang, S Zhang, Z Ge, M Su, Y Shi… - Journal of Interferon & …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… ) cells have shown good application prospects in adoptive cellular immunotherapy against …
low activity, the therapeutic effect of infused NK cells has been limited in solid tumors, such as …

IL-2-driven CD8+ T cell phenotypes: implications for immunotherapy

V Niederlova, O Tsyklauri, M Kovar, O Stepanek - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
… the antitumor response at a cellular level, and … IL-2 in T cell biology and immunotherapy
IL-2 is a key signaling glycoprotein produced by antigen-activated T cells, which promotes T cell