CD39/CD73/A2AR pathway and cancer immunotherapy

C Xia, S Yin, KKW To, L Fu - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Cancer development is closely associated with immunosuppressive tumor
microenvironment (TME) that attenuates antitumor immune responses and promotes tumor …

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in the immunotherapy era

ST Paijens, A Vledder, M de Bruyn… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The clinical success of cancer immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has refocused attention
on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) across cancer types. The outcome of immune …

Hypoxia drives CD39-dependent suppressor function in exhausted T cells to limit antitumor immunity

PDA Vignali, K DePeaux, MLJ Watson, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical for elimination of cancer cells. Factors within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) can drive these cells to a hypofunctional state known as …

Metabolic support of tumour-infiltrating regulatory T cells by lactic acid

MLJ Watson, PDA Vignali, SJ Mullett… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cells, although vital for immune homeostasis, also represent a major
barrier to anti-cancer immunity, as the tumour microenvironment (TME) promotes the …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor and immune reprogramming during immunotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma

K Bi, MX He, Z Bakouny, A Kanodia, S Napolitano… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) results in durable disease control in a subset of patients
with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but mechanisms driving resistance are poorly …

Single-cell metabolic profiling of human cytotoxic T cells

FJ Hartmann, D Mrdjen, E McCaffrey, DR Glass… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular metabolism regulates immune cell activation, differentiation and effector functions,
but current metabolic approaches lack single-cell resolution and simultaneous …

[HTML][HTML] Defining T cell states associated with response to checkpoint immunotherapy in melanoma

M Sade-Feldman, K Yizhak, SL Bjorgaard, JP Ray… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Treatment of cancer has been revolutionized by immune checkpoint blockade therapies.
Despite the high rate of response in advanced melanoma, the majority of patients succumb …

Targeting CD39 in cancer

AK Moesta, XY Li, MJ Smyth - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
The ATP–adenosine pathway functions as a key modulator of innate and adaptive immunity
within the tumour microenvironment. Consequently, multiple clinical strategies are being …

Bystander CD8+ T cells are abundant and phenotypically distinct in human tumour infiltrates

Y Simoni, E Becht, M Fehlings, CY Loh, SL Koo… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Various forms of immunotherapy, such as checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, are proving
to be effective at restoring T cell-mediated immune responses that can lead to marked and …

Co-expression of CD39 and CD103 identifies tumor-reactive CD8 T cells in human solid tumors

T Duhen, R Duhen, R Montler, J Moses… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Identifying tumor antigen-specific T cells from cancer patients has important implications for
immunotherapy diagnostics and therapeutics. Here, we show that CD103+ CD39+ tumor …