STAT proteins in cancer: orchestration of metabolism

YJ Li, C Zhang, A Martincuks, A Herrmann… - Nature reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Reprogrammed metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. However, the metabolic dependency of
cancer, from tumour initiation through disease progression and therapy resistance, requires …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer therapy with TCR-engineered T cells: current strategies, challenges, and prospects

P Shafer, LM Kelly, V Hoyos - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To redirect T cells against tumor cells, T cells can be engineered ex vivo to express cancer-
antigen specific T cell receptors (TCRs), generating products known as TCR-engineered T …

Emerging principles of cytokine pharmacology and therapeutics

RA Saxton, CR Glassman, KC Garcia - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted signalling proteins that play essential roles in the initiation,
maintenance and resolution of immune responses. Although the unique ability of cytokines …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting memory T cell metabolism to improve immunity

M Corrado, EL Pearce - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Vaccination affords protection from disease by activating pathogen-specific immune cells
and facilitating the development of persistent immunologic memory toward the vaccine …

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 …

Structure of a Janus kinase cytokine receptor complex reveals the basis for dimeric activation

CR Glassman, N Tsutsumi, RA Saxton, PJ Lupardus… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cytokines signal through cell surface receptor dimers to initiate activation of intracellular
Janus kinases (JAKs). We report the 3.6-angstrom–resolution cryo–electron microscopy …

IL-10-expressing CAR T cells resist dysfunction and mediate durable clearance of solid tumors and metastases

Y Zhao, J Chen, M Andreatta, B Feng, YQ Xie… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in treating several
hematopoietic malignancies has been difficult to replicate in solid tumors, in part because of …

Stat5 opposes the transcription factor Tox and rewires exhausted CD8+ T cells toward durable effector-like states during chronic antigen exposure

JC Beltra, MS Abdel-Hakeem, S Manne, Z Zhang… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Rewiring exhausted CD8+ T (Tex) cells toward functional states remains a
therapeutic challenge. Tex cells are epigenetically programmed by the transcription factor …

[HTML][HTML] Bispecific PD1-IL2v and anti-PD-L1 break tumor immunity resistance by enhancing stem-like tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells and reprogramming macrophages

M Tichet, S Wullschleger, A Chryplewicz, N Fournier… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Immunotherapies have shown remarkable, albeit tumor-selective, therapeutic benefits in the
clinic. Most patients respond transiently at best, highlighting the importance of …