Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy

G Oliveira, CJ Wu - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy—ranging from immune-checkpoint blockade
therapy to adoptive cellular therapy and vaccines—have revolutionized cancer treatment …

T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Single-cell and spatial analysis reveal interaction of FAP+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

J Qi, H Sun, Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z Xun, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common malignancies with limited treatments
other than surgery. The tumor microenvironment (TME) profiling enables the discovery of …

Pan-cancer T cell atlas links a cellular stress response state to immunotherapy resistance

Y Chu, E Dai, Y Li, G Han, G Pei, DR Ingram… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor-infiltrating T cells offer a promising avenue for cancer treatment, yet their states
remain to be fully characterized. Here we present a single-cell atlas of T cells from 308,048 …

Pan-cancer single-cell landscape of tumor-infiltrating T cells

L Zheng, S Qin, W Si, A Wang, B Xing, R Gao, X Ren… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cancer immunotherapies that target tumor-specific T cells have benefited
many cancer patients, but the clinical efficacy varies greatly among different cancer types …

Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade

B Liu, Y Zhang, D Wang, X Hu, Z Zhang - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of
human cancers; however, it remains incompletely understood how tumor-reactive T cells …

Single-cell analyses reveal key immune cell subsets associated with response to PD-L1 blockade in triple-negative breast cancer

Y Zhang, H Chen, H Mo, X Hu, R Gao, Y Zhao, B Liu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the benefit of combining chemotherapy with
checkpoint inhibitors is still not very clear. We utilize single-cell RNA-and ATAC-sequencing …

Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …

Spatiotemporal immune landscape of colorectal cancer liver metastasis at single-cell level

Y Wu, S Yang, J Ma, Z Chen, G Song, D Rao, Y Cheng… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Liver metastasis, the leading cause of colorectal cancer mortality, exhibits a highly
heterogeneous and suppressive immune microenvironment. Here, we sequenced 97 …

Cytotoxic CD4+ T cells in cancer: expanding the immune effector toolbox

DY Oh, L Fong - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Cytotoxic T cells are important effectors of anti-tumor immunity. While tumor killing is
ascribed to CD8+ T cell function, pre-clinical and clinical studies have identified intra …