NK cells are never alone: crosstalk and communication in tumour microenvironments

Y Zhou, L Cheng, L Liu, X Li - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immune escape is a hallmark of cancer. The dynamic and heterogeneous tumour
microenvironment (TME) causes insufficient infiltration and poor efficacy of natural killer (NK) …

Cardinal features of immune memory in innate lymphocytes

EK Santosa, JC Sun - Nature immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of vertebrates to 'remember'previous infections had once been attributed
exclusively to adaptive immunity. We now appreciate that innate lymphocytes also possess …

Clonal expansion and epigenetic inheritance of long-lasting NK cell memory

T Rückert, CA Lareau, MF Mashreghi, LS Ludwig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal expansion of cells with somatically diversified receptors and their long-term
maintenance as memory cells is a hallmark of adaptive immunity. Here, we studied …

Control of nutrient uptake by IRF4 orchestrates innate immune memory

EK Santosa, H Kim, T Rückert, JB Le Luduec… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate cytotoxic lymphocytes with adaptive immune features,
including antigen specificity, clonal expansion and memory. As such, NK cells share many …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating NK cells establish tissue residency upon acute infection of skin and mediate accelerated effector responses to secondary infection

T Torcellan, C Friedrich, R Doucet-Ladevèze, T Ossner… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are present in the circulation and can also be found residing in
tissues, and these populations exhibit distinct developmental requirements and are thought …

Tissue-specific transcriptional profiles and heterogeneity of natural killer cells and group 1 innate lymphoid cells

N Lopes, J Galluso, B Escaliere, S Carpentier… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells and type 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILC1s) are populations of non-T,
non-B lymphocytes in peripheral tissues. Although NK and ILC1 subsets have been …

Embryonic and neonatal waves generate distinct populations of hepatic ILC1s

C Sparano, D Solís-Sayago, A Vijaykumar… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Group 1 innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) comprising circulating natural killer (cNK) cells and
tissue-resident ILC1s are critical for host defense against pathogens and tumors. Despite a …

Innate lymphoid cells in autoimmune diseases

AS Clottu, M Humbel, N Fluder… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are a heterogeneous group of immune cells characterized by
lymphoid morphology and cytokine profile similar to T cells but which do not express clonally …

Lineage tracing reveals B cell antibody class switching is stochastic, cell-autonomous, and tuneable

MB Horton, HC Cheon, KR Duffy, D Brown, SH Naik… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
To optimize immunity to pathogens, B lymphocytes generate plasma cells with functionally
diverse antibody isotypes. By lineage tracing single cells within differentiating B cell clones …

Identification of aceNKPs, a committed common progenitor population of the ILC1 and NK cell continuum

N Rodriguez-Rodriguez, PA Clark… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The development of innate lymphoid cell (ILC) transcription factor reporter mice has shown a
previously unexpected complexity in ILC hematopoiesis. Using novel polychromic mice to …