Tumors evade immune cytotoxicity by altering the surface topology of NK cells

X Zheng, Z Hou, Y Qian, Y Zhang, Q Cui, X Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The highly variable response rates to immunotherapies underscore our limited knowledge
about how tumors can manipulate immune cells. Here the membrane topology of natural …

CAR-NK cells: from natural basis to design for kill

MB Khawar, H Sun - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are fusion proteins with an extracellular antigen
recognition domain and numerous intracellular signaling domains that have been …

NK cells are never alone: crosstalk and communication in tumour microenvironments

Y Zhou, L Cheng, L Liu, X Li - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immune escape is a hallmark of cancer. The dynamic and heterogeneous tumour
microenvironment (TME) causes insufficient infiltration and poor efficacy of natural killer (NK) …

Monalizumab: inhibiting the novel immune checkpoint NKG2A

T Van Hall, P André, A Horowitz, DF Ruan… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2019 - Springer
The implementation of immune checkpoint inhibitors to the oncology clinic signified a new
era in cancer treatment. After the first indication of melanoma, an increasing list of additional …

The SIRPα–CD47 immune checkpoint in NK cells

T Deuse, X Hu, S Agbor-Enoh, MK Jang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Here we report on the existence and functionality of the immune checkpoint signal
regulatory protein α (SIRPα) in NK cells and describe how it can be modulated for cell …

Innovative breakthroughs facilitated by single-cell multi-omics: manipulating natural killer cell functionality correlates with a novel subcategory of melanoma cells

Z Zhao, Y Ding, LJ Tran, G Chai, L Lin - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Melanoma is typically regarded as the most dangerous form of skin cancer.
Although surgical removal of in situ lesions can be used to effectively treat metastatic …

Targeting natural killer cells in solid tumors

G Habif, A Crinier, P André, E Vivier… - Cellular & molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphoid cells endowed with cytolytic activity and a
capacity to secrete cytokines and chemokines. Several lines of evidence suggest that NK …

Multidimensional analyses of donor memory-like NK cells reveal new associations with response after adoptive immunotherapy for leukemia

MM Berrien-Elliott, AF Cashen, CC Cubitt, CC Neal… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Natural killer (NK) cells are an emerging cancer cellular therapy and potent mediators of
antitumor immunity. Cytokine-induced memory-like (ML) NK cellular therapy is safe and …

Liver-mediated adaptive immune tolerance

M Zheng, Z Tian - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The liver is an immunologically tolerant organ that is uniquely equipped to limit
hypersensitivity to food-derived antigens and bacterial products through the portal vein and …

The evolutionary legacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors

I Kaushik, S Ramachandran, C Zabel… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Immune check point inhibitors (ICIs) have marked their existence in the field of cancer
immunotherapy. Their existence dates to 2011 when the first anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte …