Targeting Treg cells in cancer immunotherapy

A Tanaka, S Sakaguchi - European journal of immunology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Foxp3‐expressing regulatory T (Treg) cells, which are indispensable for preventing
autoimmunity, also suppress effective tumor immunity. Treg cells abundantly infiltrate into …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the glioblastoma immune microenvironment as basis for the development of new immunotherapeutic strategies

AR Pombo Antunes, I Scheyltjens, J Duerinck, B Neyns… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Cancer immunotherapy by immune checkpoint blockade has proven its great potential by
saving the lives of a proportion of late stage patients with immunogenic tumor types …

Hypoxia drives CD39-dependent suppressor function in exhausted T cells to limit antitumor immunity

PDA Vignali, K DePeaux, MLJ Watson, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical for elimination of cancer cells. Factors within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) can drive these cells to a hypofunctional state known as …

CXCR3 expression in regulatory T cells drives interactions with type I dendritic cells in tumors to restrict CD8+ T cell antitumor immunity

MAM Ayala, TF Campbell, C Zhang, N Dahan… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Infiltration of regulatory T (Treg) cells, an immunosuppressive population of CD4+ T cells,
into solid cancers represents a barrier to cancer immunotherapy. Chemokine receptors are …

[HTML][HTML] Coupled scRNA-seq and intracellular protein activity reveal an immunosuppressive role of TREM2 in cancer

Y Katzenelenbogen, F Sheban, A Yalin, I Yofe… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell function and activity are regulated through integration of signaling, epigenetic,
transcriptional, and metabolic pathways. Here, we introduce INs-seq, an integrated …

CCR8-targeted specific depletion of clonally expanded Treg cells in tumor tissues evokes potent tumor immunity with long-lasting memory

Y Kidani, W Nogami, Y Yasumizu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Foxp3-expressing CD25+ CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are abundant in tumor tissues.
Here, hypothesizing that tumor Tregs would clonally expand after they are activated by …

Ce-net: Context encoder network for 2d medical image segmentation

Z Gu, J Cheng, H Fu, K Zhou, H Hao… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical image segmentation is an important step in medical image analysis. With the rapid
development of a convolutional neural network in image processing, deep learning has …

Profound Treg perturbations correlate with COVID-19 severity

S Galván-Peña, J Leon, K Chowdhary… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The hallmark of severe COVID-19 is an uncontrolled inflammatory response, resulting from
poorly understood immunological dysfunction. We hypothesized that perturbations in …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming immune evasion in melanoma

K Eddy, S Chen - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melanoma is the most aggressive and dangerous form of skin cancer that develops from
transformed melanocytes. It is crucial to identify melanoma at its early stages, in situ, as it is …

[HTML][HTML] CD103+ regulatory T cells underlie resistance to radio-immunotherapy and impair CD8+ T cell activation in glioblastoma

L van Hooren, SM Handgraaf, DJ Kloosterman… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastomas are aggressive primary brain tumors with an inherent resistance to T cell-
centric immunotherapy due to their low mutational burden and immunosuppressive tumor …