Radiotherapy and immunology

L Wang, C Lynch, SP Pitroda, A Piffkó, K Yang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - rupress.org
The majority of cancer patients receive radiotherapy during the course of treatment,
delivered with curative intent for local tumor control or as part of a multimodality regimen …

Cytotoxicity as a form of immunogenic cell death leading to efficient tumor antigen cross‐priming

C Luri‐Rey, G Gomis, J Glez‐Vaz… - Immunological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Antigen cross‐priming of CD8+ T cells is a critical process necessary for the effective
expansion and activation of CD8+ T cells endowed with the ability to recognize and destroy …

Immune synapse formation promotes lipid peroxidation and MHC-I upregulation in licensed dendritic cells for efficient priming of CD8+ T cells

D Calzada-Fraile, S Iborra, M Ramírez-Huesca… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antigen cognate dendritic cell (DC)-T cell synaptic interactions drive activation of T cells and
instruct DCs. Upon receiving CD4+ T cell help, post-synaptic DCs (psDCs) are licensed to …

Life and death of tolerogenic dendritic cells

J Bourque, D Hawiger - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
In contrast to conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) that are constantly exposed to microbial
signals at anatomical barriers, cDCs in systemic lymphoid organs are sheltered from …

Once upon a prime: DCs shape cancer immunity

M Zagorulya, S Spranger - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells are potent killers of diseased cells, but their functional capacity is
often compromised in cancer. The quality of antitumor T cell immunity is determined during T …

Transcriptional regulation of dendritic cell development and function

S Zhang, C Audiger, M Chopin, SL Nutt - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) are sentinel immune cells that form a critical bridge linking the innate
and adaptive immune systems. Extensive research addressing the cellular origin and …

CD4+ T cells produce IFN-I to license cDC1s for induction of cytotoxic T-cell activity in human tumors

X Lei, DC de Groot, MJP Welters, T de Wit… - Cellular & molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
CD4+ T cells can" help” or" license” conventional type 1 dendritic cells (cDC1s) to induce
CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) anticancer responses, as proven in mouse models. We …

The evolving biology of cross-presentation

RA Ohara, KM Murphy - Seminars in immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
Cross-priming was first recognized in the context of in vivo cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)
responses generated against minor histocompatibility antigens induced by immunization …

CD4+ T cell calibration of antigen-presenting cells optimizes antiviral CD8+ T cell immunity

E Gressier, J Schulte-Schrepping, L Petrov… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Antiviral CD8+ T cell immunity depends on the integration of various contextual cues, but
how antigen-presenting cells (APCs) consolidate these signals for decoding by T cells …

Decoupled neoantigen cross-presentation by dendritic cells limits anti-tumor immunity against tumors with heterogeneous neoantigen expression

KB Nguyen, M Roerden, CJ Copeland, CM Backlund… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Cancer immunotherapies, in particular checkpoint blockade immunotherapy (CBT), can
induce control of cancer growth, with a fraction of patients experiencing durable responses …