Roles of natural killer cells in immunity to cancer, and applications to immunotherapy

NK Wolf, DU Kissiov, DH Raulet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Great strides have been made in recent years towards understanding the roles of natural
killer (NK) cells in immunity to tumours and viruses. NK cells are cytotoxic innate lymphoid …

Antigen presentation in cancer: insights into tumour immunogenicity and immune evasion

S Jhunjhunwala, C Hammer, L Delamarre - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade, which blocks inhibitory signals of T cell activation, has shown
tremendous success in treating cancer, although success still remains limited to a fraction of …

Cross-tissue immune cell analysis reveals tissue-specific features in humans

C Domínguez Conde, C Xu, LB Jarvis, DB Rainbow… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Despite their crucial role in health and disease, our knowledge of immune cells within
human tissues remains limited. We surveyed the immune compartment of 16 tissues from 12 …

Natural killer cells in antiviral immunity

NK Björkström, B Strunz, HG Ljunggren - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in innate immune responses to viral infections.
Here, we review recent insights into the role of NK cells in viral infections, with particular …

SARS-CoV-2 infection generates tissue-localized immunological memory in humans

MML Poon, K Rybkina, Y Kato, M Kubota… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection have been extensively characterized
in blood; however, most functions of protective immunity must be accomplished in tissues …

A pan-cancer single-cell panorama of human natural killer cells

F Tang, J Li, L Qi, D Liu, Y Bo, S Qin, Y Miao, K Yu… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells play indispensable roles in innate immune responses against tumor
progression. To depict their phenotypic and functional diversities in the tumor …

Natural killer cells in cancer biology and therapy

SY Wu, T Fu, YZ Jiang, ZM Shao - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
The tumor microenvironment is highly complex, and immune escape is currently considered
an important hallmark of cancer, largely contributing to tumor progression and metastasis …

[HTML][HTML] Longitudinal profiling of respiratory and systemic immune responses reveals myeloid cell-driven lung inflammation in severe COVID-19

PA Szabo, P Dogra, JI Gray, SB Wells, TJ Connors… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Immune response dynamics in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and their severe
manifestations have largely been studied in circulation. Here, we examined the relationship …

Natural killer cell homing and trafficking in tissues and tumors: from biology to application

GH Ran, YQ Lin, L Tian, T Zhang, DM Yan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells, a subgroup of innate lymphoid cells, act as the first line of defense
against cancer. Although some evidence shows that NK cells can develop in secondary …

Tissue adaptation and clonal segregation of human memory T cells in barrier sites

MML Poon, DP Caron, Z Wang, SB Wells, D Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
T lymphocytes migrate to barrier sites after exposure to pathogens, providing localized
immunity and long-term protection. Here, we obtained blood and tissues from human organ …