Nanotechnology for boosting cancer immunotherapy and remodeling tumor microenvironment: the horizons in cancer treatment

S Gao, X Yang, J Xu, N Qiu, G Zhai - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Immunotherapy that harnesses the human immune system to fight cancer has received
widespread attention and become a mainstream strategy for cancer treatment. Cancer …

Natural killer cells: a promising immunotherapy for cancer

J Chu, F Gao, M Yan, S Zhao, Z Yan, B Shi… - Journal of translational …, 2022 - Springer
As a promising alternative platform for cellular immunotherapy, natural killer cells (NK) have
recently gained attention as an important type of innate immune regulatory cell. NK cells can …

KIR-based inhibitory CARs overcome CAR-NK cell trogocytosis-mediated fratricide and tumor escape

Y Li, R Basar, G Wang, E Liu, JS Moyes, L Li… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Trogocytosis is an active process that transfers surface material from targeted to effector
cells. Using multiple in vivo tumor models and clinical data, we report that chimeric antigen …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer immunotherapy based on natural killer cells: current progress and new opportunities

W Hu, G Wang, D Huang, M Sui, Y Xu - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy has been firmly established as a new milestone for cancer therapy,
with the development of multiple immune cells as therapeutic tools. Natural killer (NK) cells …

[HTML][HTML] Human iPSC-derived natural killer cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors enhance anti-tumor activity

Y Li, DL Hermanson, BS Moriarity, DS Kaufman - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) significantly enhance the anti-tumor activity of immune
effector cells. Although most studies have evaluated CAR expression in T cells, here we …

Natural-killer-cell-inspired nanorobots with aggregation-induced emission characteristics for near-infrared-II fluorescence-guided glioma theranostics

G Deng, X Peng, Z Sun, W Zheng, J Yu, L Du, H Chen… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nature has always inspired robotic designs and concepts. It is conceivable that biomimic
nanorobots will soon play a prominent role in medicine. The “Terminator” in the science …

PD-L1 (B7-H1) and PD-1 pathway blockade for cancer therapy: Mechanisms, response biomarkers, and combinations

W Zou, JD Wolchok, L Chen - Science translational medicine, 2016 - science.org
Gloss PD-L1 and PD-1 (PD) pathway blockade is a highly promising therapy and has
elicited durable antitumor responses and long-term remissions in a subset of patients with a …

Immunometabolism and natural killer cell responses

KL O'Brien, DK Finlay - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes with important roles in innate and adaptive immune
responses to tumours and viral infection. However, in certain chronic diseases, including …

Allogeneic Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell immunotherapy exhibits promising clinical safety and prolongs the survival of patients with late-stage lung or liver cancer

Y Xu, Z Xiang, M Alnaggar, L Kouakanou, J Li… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Vγ9Vδ2 T cells are promising candidates for cellular tumor immunotherapy. Due to
their HLA-independent mode of action, allogeneic Vγ9Vδ2 T cells can be considered for …

Chimeric antigen receptor-engineered natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy

A Yilmaz, H Cui, MA Caligiuri, J Yu - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2020 - Springer
Natural killer (NK) cells are a critical component of the innate immune system. Chimeric
antigen receptors (CARs) re-direct NK cells toward tumor cells carrying corresponding …