Unleashing type-2 dendritic cells to drive protective antitumor CD4+ T cell immunity

M Binnewies, AM Mujal, JL Pollack, AJ Combes… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Differentiation of proinflammatory CD4+ conventional T cells (T conv) is critical for productive
antitumor responses yet their elicitation remains poorly understood. We comprehensively …

[HTML][HTML] Type I interferon activates MHC class I-dressed CD11b+ conventional dendritic cells to promote protective anti-tumor CD8+ T cell immunity

E Duong, TB Fessenden, E Lutz, T Dinter, L Yim, S Blatt… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor-infiltrating dendritic cells (DCs) assume varied functional states that impact anti-tumor
immunity. To delineate the DC states associated with productive anti-tumor T cell immunity …

[HTML][HTML] Human CD141+ dendritic cells (cDC1) are impaired in patients with advanced melanoma but can be targeted to enhance anti-PD-1 in a humanized mouse …

YS Lee, LJ O'Brien, CM Walpole… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The conventional type 1 dendritic cell subset (cDC1) is indispensable for tumor
immune responses and the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapies in animal …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Conventional type I dendritic cells maintain a reservoir of proliferative tumor-antigen specific TCF-1+ CD8+ T cells in tumor-draining lymph nodes

JM Schenkel, RH Herbst, D Canner, A Li, M Hillman… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
In tumors, a subset of CD8+ T cells expressing the transcription factor TCF-1 drives the
response to immune checkpoint blockade. We examined the mechanisms that maintain …

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 …

Tumour-retained activated CCR7+ dendritic cells are heterogeneous and regulate local anti-tumour cytolytic activity

CYC Lee, BC Kennedy, N Richoz, I Dean… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tumour dendritic cells (DCs) internalise antigen and upregulate CCR7, which directs their
migration to tumour-draining lymph nodes (dLN). CCR7 expression is coupled to an …

CD1d-restricted T cells regulate dendritic cell function and antitumor immunity in a granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor-dependent fashion

S Gillessen, YN Naumov… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
CD1d-restricted T cells contribute to tumor protection, but their precise roles remain unclear.
Here we show that tumor cells engineered to secrete granulocyte–macrophage colony …

Dendritic cells as shepherds of T cell immunity in cancer

MJ Pittet, M Di Pilato, C Garris, TR Mempel - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
In cancer patients, dendritic cells (DCs) in tumor-draining lymph nodes can present antigens
to naive T cells in ways that break immunological tolerance. The clonally expanded progeny …

Dendritic cells integrate signals from the tumor microenvironment to modulate immunity and tumor growth

A Lin, A Schildknecht, LT Nguyen, PS Ohashi - Immunology letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen presenting cells with the ability to either
initiate or prevent the induction of antigen-specific T cell responses. The conventional DC …