Combination cancer immunotherapies: Emerging treatment strategies adapted to the tumor microenvironment

N Kirchhammer, MP Trefny, P Auf der Maur… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However,
resistance to ICB occurs frequently due to tumor-intrinsic alterations or extrinsic factors in the …

Innate lymphoid cells and cancer

N Jacquelot, C Seillet, E Vivier, GT Belz - Nature Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The innate lymphoid cell (ILC) family is composed of natural killer (NK) cells, ILC1, ILC2 and
ILC3, which participate in immune responses to virus, bacteria, parasites and transformed …

Allogeneic natural killer cell therapy

MM Berrien-Elliott, MT Jacobs, TA Fehniger - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Interest in adoptive cell therapy for treating cancer is exploding owing to early clinical
successes of autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T lymphocyte therapy. However …

[HTML][HTML] Bi-and trispecific immune cell engagers for immunotherapy of hematological malignancies

A Tapia-Galisteo, L Álvarez-Vallina, L Sanz - Journal of Hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
Immune cell engagers are engineered antibodies with at least one arm binding a tumor-
associated antigen and at least another one directed against an activating receptor in …

[HTML][HTML] Control of acute myeloid leukemia by a trifunctional NKp46-CD16a-NK cell engager targeting CD123

L Gauthier, A Virone-Oddos, J Beninga, B Rossi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD123, the alpha chain of the IL-3 receptor, is an attractive target for acute myeloid
leukemia (AML) treatment. However, cytotoxic antibodies or T cell engagers targeting …

Polymer micropatches as natural killer cell engagers for tumor therapy

S Prakash, N Kumbhojkar, A Lu, N Kapate, VC Suja… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Natural killer (NK) cell therapies have emerged as a potential therapeutic approach to
various cancers. Their efficacy, however, is limited by their low persistence and anergy …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging NKG2D ligands in immuno-oncology

MB Fuertes, CI Domaica, NW Zwirner - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) revolutionized the field of immuno-oncology and opened
new avenues towards the development of novel assets to achieve durable immune control …

[HTML][HTML] Reimagining antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity in cancer: the potential of natural killer cell engagers

S Pinto, J Pahl, A Schottelius, PJ Carter, J Koch - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Bi-, tri-and multispecific antibodies have enabled the development of targeted cancer
immunotherapies redirecting immune effector cells to eliminate malignantly transformed …

[HTML][HTML] Cytokine-induced memory-like NK cells: from the basics to clinical applications

I Terrén, A Orrantia, G Astarloa-Pando… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes with a key role in the defense against viral
infections and tumor cells. Although NK cells are classified as innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) …

Extracellular targeted protein degradation: an emerging modality for drug discovery

JA Wells, K Kumru - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has emerged in the past decade as a major new drug
modality to remove intracellular proteins with bispecific small molecules that recruit the …