Chemical and biomolecular strategies for STING pathway activation in cancer immunotherapy

KM Garland, TL Sheehy, JT Wilson - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) cellular signaling pathway is a promising target
for cancer immunotherapy. Activation of the intracellular STING protein triggers the …

Mucosal immune responses to infection and vaccination in the respiratory tract

RC Mettelman, EK Allen, PG Thomas - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The lungs are constantly exposed to inhaled debris, allergens, pollutants, commensal or
pathogenic microorganisms, and respiratory viruses. As a result, innate and adaptive …

Intranasal influenza-vectored COVID-19 vaccine restrains the SARS-CoV-2 inflammatory response in hamsters

L Zhang, Y Jiang, J He, J Chen, R Qi, L Yuan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants
and “anatomical escape” characteristics threaten the effectiveness of current coronavirus …

Suboptimal SARS-CoV-2−specific CD8+ T cell response associated with the prominent HLA-A*02:01 phenotype

JR Habel, THO Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
An improved understanding of human T cell-mediated immunity in COVID-19 is important for
optimizing therapeutic and vaccine strategies. Experience with influenza shows that …

Low-avidity CD4+ T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed individuals and humans with severe COVID-19

P Bacher, E Rosati, D Esser, GR Martini, C Saggau… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
CD4+ T cells reactive against SARS-CoV-2 can be found in unexposed individuals, and
these are suggested to arise in response to common cold coronavirus (CCCoV) infection …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue resident memory T cells in the respiratory tract

MZM Zheng, LM Wakim - Mucosal immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Owing to their capacity to rapidly spread across the population, airborne pathogens
represent a significant risk to global health. Indeed, several of the past major global …

[HTML][HTML] CD8+ T cells specific for an immunodominant SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid epitope display high naive precursor frequency and TCR promiscuity

THO Nguyen, LC Rowntree, J Petersen, BY Chua… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
To better understand primary and recall T cell responses during coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19), it is important to examine unmanipulated severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Identification of resident memory CD8+ T cells with functional specificity for SARS-CoV-2 in unexposed oropharyngeal lymphoid tissue

J Niessl, T Sekine, J Lange, V Konya, M Forkel… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Cross-reactive CD4+ T cells that recognize severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) are more commonly detected in the peripheral blood of unexposed …

Integrated immune dynamics define correlates of COVID-19 severity and antibody responses

M Koutsakos, LC Rowntree, L Hensen, BY Chua… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 causes a spectrum of COVID-19 disease, the immunological basis of which
remains ill defined. We analyzed 85 SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals at acute and/or …

Pulmonary surfactant–biomimetic nanoparticles potentiate heterosubtypic influenza immunity

J Wang, P Li, Y Yu, Y Fu, H Jiang, M Lu, Z Sun, S Jiang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Current influenza vaccines must be refreshed annually to address constant
mutations of viral hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) genes because the vaccines …