Engineering IL-2 for immunotherapy of autoimmunity and cancer

R Hernandez, J Põder, 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 …

CAR-cell therapy in the era of solid tumor treatment: current challenges and emerging therapeutic advances

KM Maalej, M Merhi, VP Inchakalody, S Mestiri… - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
In the last decade, Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has emerged as a
promising immunotherapeutic approach to fight cancers. This approach consists of …

Natural killer cells: from innate to adaptive features

AM Mujal, RB Delconte, JC Sun - Annual review of immunology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that provide critical host defense against
pathogens and cancer. Originally heralded for their early and rapid effector activity, NK cells …

Role of immune cells in the removal of deleterious senescent cells

A Kale, A Sharma, A Stolzing, PY Desprez, J Campisi - Immunity & Ageing, 2020 - Springer
Cellular senescence is an essentially irreversible arrest of cell proliferation coupled to a
complex senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). The senescence arrest …

Current perspectives on “off-the-shelf” allogeneic NK and CAR-NK cell therapies

EL Heipertz, ER Zynda, TE Stav-Noraas… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer cells (NK cells) are the first line of the innate immune defense system, primarily
located in peripheral circulation and lymphoid tissues. They kill virally infected and …

[HTML][HTML] NK cell infiltration is associated with improved overall survival in solid cancers: A systematic review and meta-analysis

S Nersesian, SL Schwartz, SR Grantham… - Translational …, 2021 - Elsevier
The immune landscape of a tumor is highly connected to patient prognosis and response to
treatment, but little is known about how natural killer (NK) cells predict overall survival (OS) …

Human CD56bright NK cells: an update

T Michel, A Poli, A Cuapio, B Briquemont… - The Journal of …, 2016 - journals.aai.org
Human NK cells can be subdivided into various subsets based on the relative expression of
CD16 and CD56. In particular, CD56 bright CD16−/dim NK cells are the focus of interest …

Latency reversal plus natural killer cells diminish HIV reservoir in vivo

JT Kim, TH Zhang, C Carmona, B Lee, CS Seet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
HIV is difficult to eradicate due to the persistence of a long-lived reservoir of latently infected
cells. Previous studies have shown that natural killer cells are important to inhibiting HIV …

[HTML][HTML] Allogeneic CAR T cells: an alternative to overcome challenges of CAR T cell therapy in glioblastoma

D Martínez Bedoya, V Dutoit, D Migliorini - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has emerged as one of the major
breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy in the last decade. Outstanding results in …

CD2 immunobiology

C Binder, F Cvetkovski, F Sellberg, S Berg… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The glycoprotein CD2 is a costimulatory receptor expressed mainly on T and NK cells that
binds to LFA3, a cell surface protein expressed on eg, antigen-presenting cells. CD2 has an …