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 …

Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

Applying high-dimensional single-cell technologies to the analysis of cancer immunotherapy

SH Gohil, JB Iorgulescu, DA Braun, DB Keskin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Advances in molecular biology, microfluidics and bioinformatics have empowered the study
of thousands or even millions of individual cells from malignant tumours at the single-cell …

Promises and challenges of adoptive T-cell therapies for solid tumours

M Morotti, A Albukhari, A Alsaadi, M Artibani… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and, despite new targeted therapies and
immunotherapies, many patients with advanced-stage-or high-risk cancers still die, owing to …

Strategies to therapeutically modulate cytokine action

WJ Leonard, JX Lin - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted or membrane-presented molecules that mediate broad cellular
functions, including development, differentiation, growth and survival. Accordingly, the …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion of T memory stem cells with superior anti-tumor immunity by Urolithin A-induced mitophagy

D Denk, V Petrocelli, C Conche, M Drachsler… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
T memory stem cells (T SCM) display increased self-renewal and prolonged survival
capabilities, thus preventing T cell exhaustion and promoting effective anti-tumor T cell …

CAR-T cells hit the tumor microenvironment: strategies to overcome tumor escape

A Rodriguez-Garcia, A Palazon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have demonstrated remarkable efficacy for
the treatment of hematological malignancies. However, in patients with solid tumors …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

Bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214) plus nivolumab in patients with advanced solid tumors: phase I dose-escalation study of safety, efficacy, and immune activation …

A Diab, NM Tannir, SE Bentebibel, P Hwu… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
This single-arm, phase I dose-escalation trial (NCT02983045) evaluated
bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214/BEMPEG), a CD122-preferential IL2 pathway agonist, plus …

Nanomedicine embraces cancer radio-immunotherapy: mechanism, design, recent advances, and clinical translation

H Li, Q Luo, H Zhang, X Ma, Z Gu, Q Gong… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer radio-immunotherapy, integrating external/internal radiation therapy with immuno-
oncology treatments, emerges in the current management of cancer. A growing number of …