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 …

In Vivo CD4+ T Cell Differentiation and Function: Revisiting the Th1/Th2 Paradigm

M Ruterbusch, KB Pruner, L Shehata… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The discovery of CD4+ T cell subset–defining master transcription factors and framing of the
Th1/Th2 paradigm ignited the CD4+ T cell field. Advances in in vivo experimental systems …

CAR T cell immunotherapy for human cancer

CH June, RS O'Connor, OU Kawalekar, S Ghassemi… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) is a new area of transfusion medicine involving the infusion of
lymphocytes to mediate antitumor, antiviral, or anti-inflammatory effects. The field has rapidly …

CD8+ T cells specific for conserved coronavirus epitopes correlate with milder disease in patients with COVID-19

V Mallajosyula, C Ganjavi, S Chakraborty… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
A central feature of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is that some individuals become severely ill
or die, whereas others have only a mild disease course or are asymptomatic. Here, we …

TCR signaling: mechanisms of initiation and propagation

AH Courtney, WL Lo, A Weiss - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
The mechanisms by which a T cell detects antigen using its T cell antigen receptor (TCR)
are crucial to our understanding of immunity and the harnessing of T cells therapeutically. A …

Local mutational diversity drives intratumoral immune heterogeneity in non-small cell lung cancer

Q Jia, W Wu, Y Wang, PB Alexander, C Sun… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Combining whole exome sequencing, transcriptome profiling, and T cell repertoire analysis,
we investigate the spatial features of surgically-removed biopsies from multiple loci in tumor …

Therapeutically increasing MHC-I expression potentiates immune checkpoint blockade

SS Gu, W Zhang, X Wang, P Jiang, N Traugh, Z Li… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy revolutionized cancer treatment, but many
patients with impaired MHC-I expression remain refractory. Here, we combined FACS-based …

The mechanisms of T cell selection in the thymus

H Takaba, H Takayanagi - Trends in immunology, 2017 - cell.com
T cells undergo positive and negative selection in the thymic cortex and medulla,
respectively. A promiscuous expression of a wide array of self-antigens in the thymus is …

Cell-based drug delivery systems and their in vivo fate

L Yang, Y Yang, Y Chen, Y Xu, J Peng - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Cell-based drug delivery systems (DDSs) have received attention recently because of their
unique biological properties and self-powered functions, such as excellent biocompatibility …

Why must T cells be cross-reactive?

AK Sewell - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2012 - nature.com
Clonal selection theory proposed that individual T cells are specific for a single peptide–
MHC antigen. However, the repertoire of αβ T cell receptors (TCRs) is dwarfed by the vast …