Defining 'T cell exhaustion'

CU Blank, WN Haining, W Held, PG Hogan… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract 'T cell exhaustion'is a broad term that has been used to describe the response of T
cells to chronic antigen stimulation, first in the setting of chronic viral infection but more …

CAR T cell therapy for patients with solid tumours: key lessons to learn and unlearn

SM Albelda - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2024 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have been approved for use in patients with B cell
malignancies or relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma, yet efficacy against most solid …

[HTML][HTML] CD4+ T cell-induced inflammatory cell death controls immune-evasive tumours

B Kruse, AC Buzzai, N Shridhar, AD Braun, S Gellert… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Most clinically applied cancer immunotherapies rely on the ability of CD8+ cytolytic T cells to
directly recognize and kill tumour cells,–. These strategies are limited by the emergence of …

CD8+ T cell differentiation and dysfunction in cancer

M Philip, A Schietinger - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells specific for cancer cells are detected within tumours. However, despite their
presence, tumours progress. The clinical success of immune checkpoint blockade and …

CD4+ T cell help is required for the formation of a cytolytic CD8+ T cell subset that protects against chronic infection and cancer

R Zander, D Schauder, G Xin, C Nguyen, X Wu… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Although CD4+ T cell" help" is crucial to sustain antiviral immunity, the mechanisms by
which CD4+ T cells regulate CD8+ T cell differentiation during chronic infection remain …

TOX is a critical regulator of tumour-specific T cell differentiation

AC Scott, F Dündar, P Zumbo, SS Chandran… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Tumour-specific CD8 T cell dysfunction is a differentiation state that is distinct from the
functional effector or memory T cell states,,,,–. Here we identify the nuclear factor TOX as a …

Engineered skin bacteria induce antitumor T cell responses against melanoma

YE Chen, D Bousbaine, A Veinbachs, K Atabakhsh… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Certain bacterial colonists induce a highly specific T cell response. A hallmark of this
encounter is that adaptive immunity develops preemptively, in the absence of an infection …

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 …

Endosomolytic polymersomes increase the activity of cyclic dinucleotide STING agonists to enhance cancer immunotherapy

D Shae, KW Becker, P Christov, DS Yun… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Cyclic dinucleotide (CDN) agonists of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) are a promising
class of immunotherapeutics that activate innate immunity to increase tumour …

A major chromatin regulator determines resistance of tumor cells to T cell–mediated killing

D Pan, A Kobayashi, P Jiang, L Ferrari de Andrade… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Many human cancers are resistant to immunotherapy, for reasons that are poorly
understood. We used a genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screen to identify mechanisms of …