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 …

CD8+ T Cell Exhaustion in Cancer

JS Dolina, N Van Braeckel-Budimir… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
A paradigm shift in the understanding of the exhausted CD8+ T cell (Tex) lineage is
underway. Originally thought to be a uniform population that progressively loses effector …

Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors

GM Allen, NW Frankel, NR Reddy, HK Bhargava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are ineffective against solid tumors with
immunosuppressive microenvironments. To overcome suppression, we engineered circuits …

An engineered IL-2 partial agonist promotes CD8+ T cell stemness

F Mo, Z Yu, P Li, J Oh, R Spolski, L Zhao, CR Glassman… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Adoptive transfer of antigen-specific T cells represents a major advance in cancer
immunotherapy, with robust clinical outcomes in some patients. Both the number of …

CD4+ T cell help in cancer immunology and immunotherapy

J Borst, T Ahrends, N Bąbała, CJM Melief… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy aims to promote the activity of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) within
a tumour, assist the priming of tumour-specific CTLs in lymphoid organs and establish …

Signaling and function of interleukin-2 in T lymphocytes

SH Ross, DA Cantrell - Annual review of immunology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of interleukin-2 (IL-2) changed the molecular understanding of how the
immune system is controlled. IL-2 is a pleiotropic cytokine, and dissecting the signaling …

A human orthogonal IL-2 and IL-2Rβ system enhances CAR T cell expansion and antitumor activity in a murine model of leukemia

Q Zhang, ME Hresko, LK Picton, L Su… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is a central T cell cytokine that promotes T cell proliferation and effector
function; however, toxicity due to its pluripotency limits its application to enhance CAR T cell …

Tissue-specific abundance of interferon-gamma drives regulatory T cells to restrain DC1-mediated priming of cytotoxic T cells against lung cancer

M Zagorulya, L Yim, DM Morgan, A Edwards… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Local environmental factors influence CD8+ T cell priming in lymph nodes (LNs). Here, we
sought to understand how factors unique to the tumor-draining mediastinal LN (mLN) impact …

Lack of CD8+ T cell effector differentiation during priming mediates checkpoint blockade resistance in non–small cell lung cancer

BL Horton, DM Morgan, N Momin, M Zagorulya… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
In non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), response to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is
associated with programmed cell death ligand 1 expression that is induced by interferon-γ …

[HTML][HTML] Host immune response to influenza A virus infection

X Chen, S Liu, MU Goraya, M Maarouf… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) are contagious pathogens responsible for severe respiratory
infection in humans and animals worldwide. Upon detection of IAV infection, host immune …