Identification of preexisting adaptive immunity to Cas9 proteins in humans

CT Charlesworth, PS Deshpande, DP Dever… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
The CRISPR–Cas9 system is a powerful tool for genome editing, which allows the precise
modification of specific DNA sequences. Many efforts are underway to use the CRISPR …

Assay format diversity in pre-clinical immunogenicity risk assessment: Toward a possible harmonization of antigenicity assays

A Ducret, C Ackaert, J Bessa, C Bunce, T Hickling… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A major impediment to successful use of therapeutic protein drugs is their ability
to induce anti-drug antibodies (ADA) that can alter treatment efficacy and safety in a …

Preclinical risk assessment strategy to mitigate the T-cell dependent immunogenicity of protein biotherapeutics: State of the art, challenges and future perspectives

A Di Ianni, L Barbero, T Fraone, K Cowan… - … of Pharmaceutical and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Protein therapeutics hold a prominent role and have brought significant diversity in
efficacious medicinal products. Not just monoclonal antibodies and different antibody …

Galectin-9 and VISTA expression define terminally exhausted T cells in HIV-1 infection

S Shahbaz, G Dunsmore, P Koleva, L Xu… - The Journal of …, 2020 - journals.aai.org
We report significant upregulation of Galectin-9 (Gal-9) and VISTA on both CD4+ and CD8+
T cells in HIV-infected human patients. Gal-9 and VISTA expression was associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Age distribution of multiple functionally relevant subsets of CD4+ T cells in human blood using a standardized and validated 14-color EuroFlow immune …

V Botafogo, M Pérez-Andres, M Jara-Acevedo… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
CD4+ T cells comprise multiple functionally distinct cell populations that play a key role in
immunity. Despite blood monitoring of CD4+ T-cell subsets is of potential clinical utility, no …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of rare autoreactive T cell subsets in patients with pemphigus vulgaris

A Polakova, L Kauter, A Ismagambetova… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Analysis of T lymphocyte proliferation and activation after antigenic or mitogenic stimulation
is a vital parameter used in the diagnosis of various immuno-deficiencies and during the …

[HTML][HTML] New interpretable machine-learning method for single-cell data reveals correlates of clinical response to cancer immunotherapy

E Greene, G Finak, LA D'Amico, N Bhardwaj… - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
We introduce a new method for single-cell cytometry studies, FAUST, which performs
unbiased cell population discovery and annotation. FAUST processes experimental data on …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional and functional analyses of neoantigen-specific CD4 T cells during a profound response to anti-PD-L1 in metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma

C Church, T Pulliam, N Longino, SY Park… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) often responds to PD-1 pathway blockade,
regardless of tumor-viral status (~ 80% of cases driven by the Merkel cell polyomavirus …

[HTML][HTML] The immune response to SARS-coV-2 vaccine in a cohort of family pediatricians from southern Italy

P Cortese, F Amato, A Davino, R De Franchis… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
In Italy, from January 2021, the Ministry of Health indicated a vaccination plan against
COVID for frail patients and physicians based on a three-dose scheme. However, conflicting …

[HTML][HTML] Dissecting the landscape of activated CMV-stimulated CD4+ T cells in humans by linking single-cell RNA-seq with T-cell receptor sequencing

M Lyu, S Wang, K Gao, L Wang, X Zhu, Y Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
CD4+ T cells are crucial in cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, but their role in infection
remains unclear. The heterogeneity and potential functions of CMVpp65-reactivated CD4+ T …