CD8+ T cells in HIV control, cure and prevention

DR Collins, GD Gaiha, BD Walker - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
HIV infection can be effectively treated by lifelong administration of combination antiretroviral
therapy, but an effective vaccine will likely be required to end the HIV epidemic. Although the …

Standing on the shoulders of mice

K Medetgul-Ernar, MM Davis - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
While inbred mice have informed most of what we know about the immune system in the
modern era, they have clear limitations with respect to their ability to be informative …

HLA-E-expressing pluripotent stem cells escape allogeneic responses and lysis by NK cells

GG Gornalusse, RK Hirata, SE Funk, L Riolobos… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Polymorphisms in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I genes can cause the rejection
of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived products in allogeneic recipients. Disruption of the …

Targeting the latent reservoir for HIV-1

S Sengupta, RF Siliciano - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Antiretroviral therapy can effectively block HIV-1 replication and prevent or reverse
immunodeficiency in HIV-1-infected individuals. However, viral replication resumes within …

Senescent cells evade immune clearance via HLA-E-mediated NK and CD8+ T cell inhibition

BI Pereira, OP Devine, M Vukmanovic-Stejic… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Senescent cells accumulate in human tissues during ageing and contribute to age-related
pathologies. The mechanisms responsible for their accumulation are unclear. Here we show …

International AIDS Society global scientific strategy: towards an HIV cure 2016

SG Deeks, SR Lewin, AL Ross, J Ananworanich… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Antiretroviral therapy is not curative. Given the challenges in providing lifelong therapy to a
global population of more than 35 million people living with HIV, there is intense interest in …

Advances of artificial intelligence in anti-cancer drug design: a review of the past decade

L Wang, Y Song, H Wang, X Zhang, M Wang, J He… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anti-cancer drug design has been acknowledged as a complicated, expensive, time-
consuming, and challenging task. How to reduce the research costs and speed up the …

Prevention of tuberculosis in rhesus macaques by a cytomegalovirus-based vaccine

SG Hansen, DE Zak, G Xu, JC Ford, EE Marshall… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Despite widespread use of the bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine, tuberculosis (TB)
remains a leading cause of global mortality from a single infectious agent (Mycobacterium …

T cell-inducing vaccine durably prevents mucosal SHIV infection even with lower neutralizing antibody titers

PS Arunachalam, TP Charles, V Joag, VS Bollimpelli… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Recent efforts toward an HIV vaccine focus on inducing broadly neutralizing antibodies, but
eliciting both neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) and cellular responses may be superior. Here …

The NKG2A–HLA-E axis as a novel checkpoint in the tumor microenvironment

L Borst, SH van der Burg, T van Hall - Clinical cancer research, 2020 - AACR
The success of checkpoint blockade therapy revolutionized cancer treatment. However, we
need to increase the fraction of responding patients and overcome acquired resistance to …