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 …

Potentiating adoptive cell therapy using synthetic IL-9 receptors

A Kalbasi, M Siurala, LL Su, M Tariveranmoshabad… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Synthetic receptor signalling has the potential to endow adoptively transferred T cells with
new functions that overcome major barriers in the treatment of solid tumours, including the …

PD-1-cis IL-2R agonism yields better effectors from stem-like CD8+ T cells

L Codarri Deak, V Nicolini, M Hashimoto, M Karagianni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Expansion and differentiation of antigen-experienced PD-1+ TCF-1+ stem-like CD8+ T cells
into effector cells is critical for the success of immunotherapies based on PD-1 blockade …

Interleukin-15 rescues tolerant CD8+ T cells for use in adoptive immunotherapy of established tumors

RM Teague, BD Sather, JA Sacks, MZ Huang… - Nature medicine, 2006 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells can mediate eradication of established tumors, and strategies to amplify tumor-
reactive T-cell numbers by immunization or ex vivo expansion followed by adoptive transfer …

Orthogonal cytokine engineering enables novel synthetic effector states escaping canonical exhaustion in tumor-rejecting CD8+ T cells

J Corria-Osorio, SJ Carmona, E Stefanidis… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
To date, no immunotherapy approaches have managed to fully overcome T-cell exhaustion,
which remains a mandatory fate for chronically activated effector cells and a major …

Adoptive tumor therapy with T lymphocytes enriched through an IFN-γ capture assay

C Becker, H Pohla, B Frankenberger, T Schüler… - 2001 - nature.com
Successful adoptive T-cell therapy has been demonstrated in viral disease, and selected
forms of cancer. However, it is limited by the difficulty to efficiently isolate and amplify …

A split, conditionally active mimetic of IL-2 reduces the toxicity of systemic cytokine therapy

A Quijano-Rubio, AM Bhuiyan, H Yang, I Leung… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The therapeutic potential of recombinant cytokines has been limited by the severe side
effects of systemic administration. We describe a strategy to reduce the dose-limiting …

Exploiting a natural conformational switch to engineer an interleukin-2 'superkine'

AM Levin, DL Bates, AM Ring, C Krieg, JT Lin, L Su… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The immunostimulatory cytokine interleukin-2 (IL-2) is a growth factor for a wide range of
leukocytes, including T cells and natural killer (NK) cells,,. Considerable effort has been …

Disruption of TET2 promotes the therapeutic efficacy of CD19-targeted T cells

JA Fraietta, CL Nobles, MA Sammons, S Lundh… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy based on genetically redirecting T cells has been used successfully
to treat B cell malignancies,–. In this strategy, the T cell genome is modified by integration of …

CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells preserve graft-versus-tumor activity while inhibiting graft-versus-host disease after bone marrow transplantation

M Edinger, P Hoffmann, J Ermann, K Drago… - Nature medicine, 2003 - nature.com
Mature donor T cells cause graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), but they are also the main
mediators of the beneficial graft-versus-tumor (GVT) activity of allogeneic bone marrow …