Are conventional type 1 dendritic cells critical for protective antitumor immunity and how?

JC Cancel, K Crozat, M Dalod, R Mattiuz - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) are endowed with a unique potency to prime T cells, as well as to
orchestrate their expansion, functional polarization and effector activity in non-lymphoid …

Trial watch: dendritic cell vaccination for cancer immunotherapy

J Sprooten, J Ceusters, A Coosemans… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Dendritic-cells (DCs) have received considerable attention as potential targets for the
development of anticancer vaccines. DC-based anticancer vaccination relies on patient …

The role of type-2 conventional dendritic cells in the regulation of tumor immunity

Y Saito, S Komori, T Kotani, Y Murata, T Matozaki - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Recent studies revealed that type-2 conventional dendritic cells (cDC2s)
play an important role in antitumor immunity by promoting cytotoxic T-cell responses and …

Transcriptional networks driving dendritic cell differentiation and function

SL Nutt, M Chopin - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) are the sentinels of the immune system, sensing a diverse array of
pathogens to stimulate a robust and appropriate immune response. To initiate responses to …

Cryptic activation of an Irf8 enhancer governs cDC1 fate specification

V Durai, P Bagadia, JM Granja, AT Satpathy… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Induction of the transcription factor Irf8 in the common dendritic cell progenitor (CDP) is
required for classical type 1 dendritic cell (cDC1) fate specification, but the mechanisms …

Dendritic cells as inducers of peripheral tolerance

CA Iberg, A Jones, D Hawiger - Trends in immunology, 2017 - cell.com
Mechanisms of tolerance initiated in the thymus are indispensable for establishing immune
homeostasis, but they may not be sufficient to prevent tissue-specific autoimmune diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Immunomodulatory and antitumor effects of type I interferons and their application in cancer therapy

RFV Medrano, A Hunger, SA Mendonça, JAM Barbuto… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
During the last decades, the pleiotropic antitumor functions exerted by type I interferons
(IFNs) have become universally acknowledged, especially their role in mediating …

The common cytokine receptor γ chain family of cytokines

JX Lin, WJ Leonard - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, IL-15, and IL-21 form a family of cytokines based on their
sharing the common cytokine receptor γ chain (γc), which was originally discovered as the …

Intestinal cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide shapes a protective neonatal gut microbiota against pancreatic autoimmunity

W Liang, E Enée, C Andre-Vallee, M Falcone, J Sun… - Gastroenterology, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Alteration of the gut microbiota is implicated in the development of
autoimmune type 1 diabetes (T1D), as shown in humans and the nonobese diabetic (NOD) …

[HTML][HTML] DCs at the center of help: Origins and evolution of the three-cell-type hypothesis

R Wu, KM Murphy - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2022 - rupress.org
Last year was the 10th anniversary of Ralph Steinman's Nobel Prize awarded for his
discovery of dendritic cells (DCs), while next year brings the 50th anniversary of that …