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 …

Activation or exhaustion of CD8+ T cells in patients with COVID-19

MS Rha, EC Shin - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2021 - nature.com
In addition to CD4+ T cells and neutralizing antibodies, CD8+ T cells contribute to protective
immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

Transcriptional signatures associated with persisting CD19 CAR-T cells in children with leukemia

ND Anderson, J Birch, T Accogli, I Criado… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
In the context of relapsed and refractory childhood pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
(R/R B-ALL), CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells often induce durable …

Characteristics of anti-CD19 CAR T cell infusion products associated with efficacy and toxicity in patients with large B cell lymphomas

Q Deng, G Han, N Puebla-Osorio, MCJ Ma, P Strati… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies targeting CD19 have high
efficacy in large B cell lymphomas (LBCLs), but long-term remissions are observed in less …

BATF and IRF4 cooperate to counter exhaustion in tumor-infiltrating CAR T cells

H Seo, E González-Avalos, W Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The transcription factors nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) and activator protein 1 (AP-
1; Fos–Jun) cooperate to promote the effector functions of T cells, but NFAT in the absence …

Generation of functionally distinct T-cell populations by altering the viscoelasticity of their extracellular matrix

K Adu-Berchie, Y Liu, DKY Zhang… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
The efficacy of adoptive T-cell therapies largely depends on the generation of T-cell
populations that provide rapid effector function and long-term protective immunity. Yet it is …

Massively parallel single-cell chromatin landscapes of human immune cell development and intratumoral T cell exhaustion

AT Satpathy, JM Granja, KE Yost, Y Qi, F Meschi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding complex tissues requires single-cell deconstruction of gene regulation with
precision and scale. Here, we assess the performance of a massively parallel droplet-based …

A phenotypic signature that identifies neoantigen-reactive T cells in fresh human lung cancers

K Hanada, C Zhao, R Gil-Hoyos, JJ Gartner… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
A common theme across multiple successful immunotherapies for cancer is the recognition
of tumor-specific mutations (neoantigens) by T cells. The rapid discovery of such antigen …

The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

c-Jun overexpression in CAR T cells induces exhaustion resistance

RC Lynn, EW Weber, E Sotillo, D Gennert, P Xu… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells mediate anti-tumour effects in a small subset of
patients with cancer,–, but dysfunction due to T cell exhaustion is an important barrier to …