NK cells for cancer immunotherapy

N Shimasaki, A Jain, D Campana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells can swiftly kill multiple adjacent cells if these show surface markers
associated with oncogenic transformation. This property, which is unique among immune …

Immune checkpoint molecules in natural killer cells as potential targets for cancer immunotherapy

Y Cao, X Wang, T Jin, Y Tian, C Dai… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of natural killer (NK) cells in immunotherapy
to treat multiple types of cancer. NK cells are innate lymphoid cells that play essential roles …

Expansion, persistence, and efficacy of donor memory-like NK cells infused for posttransplant relapse

RM Shapiro, GC Birch, G Hu… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Background Responses to conventional donor lymphocyte infusion for postallogeneic
hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) relapse are typically poor. Natural killer (NK) cell …

Donor memory-like NK cells persist and induce remissions in pediatric patients with relapsed AML after transplant

JJ Bednarski, C Zimmerman… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Pediatric and young adult (YA) patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who relapse
after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) have an extremely poor prognosis …

CAR-NK cells: from natural basis to design for kill

MB Khawar, H Sun - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are fusion proteins with an extracellular antigen
recognition domain and numerous intracellular signaling domains that have been …

NK cell-based immunotherapy for cancer

F Fang, W Xiao, Z Tian - Seminars in immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
Natural killer (NK) cells can induce an antigen-independent immune response against
malignant cells. A growing number of scientific reports and clinical studies have shown …

From CAR-T cells to CAR-NK cells: a developing immunotherapy method for hematological malignancies

H Lu, X Zhao, Z Li, Y Hu, H Wang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The approval of CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T (CAR-T) cell products
in B-cell malignancies represents a breakthrough in CAR-T cell immunotherapy. However …

Chimeric antigen receptor expressing natural killer cells for the immunotherapy of cancer

RS Mehta, K Rezvani - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cell therapy has emerged as a powerful treatment for advanced cancers resistant
to conventional agents. Most notable are the remarkable responses seen in patients …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering CAR-NK cells to secrete IL-15 sustains their anti-AML functionality but is associated with systemic toxicities

I Christodoulou, WJ Ho, A Marple… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The prognosis of patients with recurrent/refractory acute myelogenous leukemia
(AML) remains poor and cell-based immunotherapies hold promise to improve outcomes …

Natural killer cells as allogeneic effectors in adoptive cancer immunotherapy

KB Lupo, S Matosevic - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are attractive within adoptive transfer settings in cancer
immunotherapy due to their potential for allogeneic use; their alloreactivity is enhanced …