T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Immune checkpoint therapy for solid tumours: clinical dilemmas and future trends

Q Sun, Z Hong, C Zhang, L Wang, Z Han… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Immune-checkpoint inhibitors (ICBs), in addition to targeting CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD-
L1, novel targeting LAG-3 drugs have also been approved in clinical application. With the …

[PDF][PDF] Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

JA Belk, W Yao, N Ly, KA Freitas, YT Chen, Q Shi… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
T cell exhaustion limits antitumor immunity, but the molecular determinants of this process
remain poorly understood. Using a chronic stimulation assay, we performed genome-wide …

Divergent clonal differentiation trajectories of T cell exhaustion

B Daniel, KE Yost, S Hsiung, K Sandor, Y Xia, Y Qi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen exposure during viral infection or cancer promotes an exhausted T cell
(Tex) state with reduced effector function. However, whether all antigen-specific T cell clones …

mTOR regulates T cell exhaustion and PD-1–targeted immunotherapy response during chronic viral infection

S Ando, CM Perkins, Y Sajiki… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
T cell exhaustion is a state of T cell dysfunction associated with expression of programmed
death 1 (PD-1). Exhausted CD8+ T cells are maintained by self-renewing stem-like T cells …

Exhausted CD8+ T cells face a developmental fork in the road

R Zander, W Cui - Trends in Immunology, 2023 - cell.com
Reinvigorating the function of exhausted CD8+ T cells during chronic viral infection and
cancer is a major goal of current immunotherapy regimens. Here, we discuss recent …

Reshaping the tumour immune microenvironment in solid tumours via tumour cell and immune cell DNA methylation: from mechanisms to therapeutics

F Zhong, Y Lin, L Zhao, C Yang, Y Ye… - British Journal of Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
In recent years, the tumour microenvironment (TME) of solid tumours has attracted more and
more attention from researchers, especially those non-tumour components such as immune …

Strategies to enhance CAR-T persistence

Y Liu, L An, R Huang, J Xiong, H Yang, X Wang… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy has significantly improved the life
expectancy for patients with refractory or relapse B cell lymphoma. As for B cell acute …

Disulfidptosis-associated LncRNAs index predicts prognosis and chemotherapy drugs sensitivity in cervical cancer

L Liu, J Liu, Q Lyu, J Huang, Y Chen, C Feng, Y Liu… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Disulfidptosis is a newly discovered form of cell death. Not yet clearly classified as
programmed cell death or accidental cell death. This study aimed to create a novel …

Microbial metabolite enhances immunotherapy efficacy by modulating T cell stemness in pan-cancer

D Jia, Q Wang, Y Qi, Y Jiang, J He, Y Lin, Y Sun, J Xu… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) response in human cancers is closely linked to the
gut microbiota. Here, we report that the abundance of commensal Lactobacillus johnsonii is …