Natural killer cell-mediated immunosurveillance of human cancer

KJ Malmberg, M Carlsten, A Björklund, E Sohlberg… - Seminars in …, 2017 - Elsevier
The contribution of natural killer (NK) cells to immunosurveillance of human cancer remains
debatable. Here, we discuss advances in several areas of human NK cell research, many of …

Off-the-shelf cell therapy with induced pluripotent stem cell-derived natural killer cells

ML Saetersmoen, Q Hammer, B Valamehr… - Seminars in …, 2019 - Springer
Cell therapy is emerging as a very promising therapeutic modality against cancer,
spearheaded by the clinical success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) modified T cells for …

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals the tumor microenvironment and facilitates strategic choices to circumvent treatment failure in a chemorefractory bladder cancer …

HW Lee, W Chung, HO Lee, DE Jeong, A Jo, JE Lim… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Tumor cell-intrinsic mechanisms and complex interactions with the tumor
microenvironment contribute to therapeutic failure via tumor evolution. It may be possible to …

Single-cell profiling reveals the trajectories of natural killer cell differentiation in bone marrow and a stress signature induced by acute myeloid leukemia

A Crinier, PY Dumas, B Escalière… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate cytotoxic lymphoid cells (ILCs) involved in the killing of
infected and tumor cells. Among human and mouse NK cells from the spleen and blood, we …

Complete remission with reduction of high-risk clones following haploidentical NK-cell therapy against MDS and AML

AT Björklund, M Carlsten, E Sohlberg, LL Liu… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: To evaluate the safety, efficacy, and immunobiological correlates of allogeneic NK-
cell–based therapy in primary chemotherapy-refractory or relapsed high-risk …

[HTML][HTML] Generating natural killer cells for adoptive transfer: expanding horizons

S Kundu, M Gurney, M O'Dwyer - Cytotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Natural killer (NK) cells are unique innate lymphoid cells that have therapeutic potential in
adoptive cell transfer-based cancer immunotherapy that has been established across a …

Intrinsic functional potential of NK-cell subsets constrains retargeting driven by chimeric antigen receptors

VYS Oei, M Siernicka, A Graczyk-Jarzynka… - Cancer immunology …, 2018 - AACR
Natural killer (NK) cells hold potential as a source of allogeneic cytotoxic effector cells for
chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-mediated therapies. Here, we explored the feasibility of …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive single-KIR+ NKG2C+ NK cells expanded from select superdonors show potent missing-self reactivity and efficiently control HLA-mismatched acute …

A Haroun-Izquierdo, M Vincenti, H Netskar… - … for Immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Natural killer (NK) cells hold great promise as a source for allogeneic cell
therapy against hematological malignancies, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML) …

Deciphering natural killer cell homeostasis

A Pfefferle, B Jacobs, A Haroun-Izquierdo… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells have a central role within the innate immune system, eliminating
virally infected, foreign and transformed cells through their natural cytotoxic capacity …

Deciphering the killer‐cell immunoglobulin‐like receptor system at super‐resolution for natural killer and T‐cell biology

V Béziat, HG Hilton, PJ Norman, JA Traherne - Immunology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Killer‐cell immunoglobulin‐like receptors (KIR s) are components of two fundamental
biological systems essential for human health and survival. First, they contribute to host …