Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

Systemic immunity in cancer

KJ Hiam-Galvez, BM Allen, MH Spitzer - Nature reviews cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, but efficacy remains limited in most
clinical settings. Cancer is a systemic disease that induces many functional and …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic CD8+ T cell responses to cancer immunotherapy in human regional lymph nodes are disrupted in metastatic lymph nodes

MK Rahim, TLH Okholm, KB Jones, EE McCarthy… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cell responses are critical for anti-tumor immunity. While extensively profiled in the
tumor microenvironment, recent studies in mice identified responses in lymph nodes (LNs) …

The primordial differentiation of tumor-specific memory CD8+ T cells as bona fide responders to PD-1/PD-L1 blockade in draining lymph nodes

Q Huang, X Wu, Z Wang, X Chen, L Wang, Y Lu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary Blocking PD-1/PD-L1 signaling transforms cancer therapy and is assumed to
unleash exhausted tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Therapeutic targeting of the tumor microenvironment

L Bejarano, MJC Jordāo, JA Joyce - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Strategies to therapeutically target the tumor microenvironment (TME) have emerged as a
promising approach for cancer treatment in recent years due to the critical roles of the TME …

Tissue-resident memory and circulating T cells are early responders to pre-surgical cancer immunotherapy

AM Luoma, S Suo, Y Wang, L Gunasti, CBM Porter… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade has shown promising clinical activity. Here, we
characterized early kinetics in tumor-infiltrating and circulating immune cells in oral cancer …

[HTML][HTML] The application of nanoparticles in cancer immunotherapy: Targeting tumor microenvironment

M Yang, J Li, P Gu, X Fan - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The tumor development and metastasis are closely related to the structure and function of
the tumor microenvironment (TME). Recently, TME modulation strategies have attracted …

The PD-1/PD-L1-checkpoint restrains T cell immunity in tumor-draining lymph nodes

F Dammeijer, M van Gulijk, EE Mulder, M Lukkes… - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Summary PD-1/PD-L1-checkpoint blockade therapy is generally thought to relieve tumor cell-
mediated suppression in the tumor microenvironment but PD-L1 is also expressed on non …

PD-L1 on dendritic cells attenuates T cell activation and regulates response to immune checkpoint blockade

Q Peng, X Qiu, Z Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have shown clinical promise in a variety of cancers,
but how tumor-infiltrating T cells are activated remains unclear. In this study, we explore the …

[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 …