Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy

TJ Laskowski, A Biederstädt, K Rezvani - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a unique population of innate lymphoid cells endowed with
intrinsic abilities to identify and eliminate virally infected cells and tumour cells. Possessing …

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 …

Mechanisms of immune activation and regulation: lessons from melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, JA Wargo, Y Samuels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Melanoma, a skin cancer that develops from pigment cells, has been studied intensively,
particularly in terms of the immune response to tumours, and has been used as a model for …

Transcriptional and epigenetic regulators of human CD8+ T cell function identified through orthogonal CRISPR screens

SR McCutcheon, AM Swartz, MC Brown, A Barrera… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Clinical response to adoptive T cell therapies is associated with the transcriptional and
epigenetic state of the cell product. Thus, discovery of regulators of T cell gene networks and …

Programming CAR T cell tumor recognition: tuned antigen sensing and logic gating

M Hamieh, J Mansilla-Soto, I Rivière, M Sadelain - Cancer Discovery, 2023 - AACR
The success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting B-cell malignancies
propelled the field of synthetic immunology and raised hopes to treat solid tumors in a …

Advancing CAR T cell therapy through the use of multidimensional omics data

J Yang, Y Chen, Y Jing, MR Green, L Han - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the notable success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies in the
treatment of certain haematological malignancies, challenges remain in optimizing CAR …

The evolution of synthetic receptor systems

J Manhas, HI Edelstein, JN Leonard… - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Receptors enable cells to detect, process and respond to information about their
environments. Over the past two decades, synthetic biologists have repurposed physical …

Current updates on generations, approvals, and clinical trials of CAR T-cell therapy

T Asmamaw Dejenie, M Tiruneh G/Medhin… - Human Vaccines & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a novel, customized immunotherapy that
is considered a 'living'and self-replicating drug to treat cancer, sometimes resulting in a …

Enhancing the safety of CAR-T cell therapy: Synthetic genetic switch for spatiotemporal control

L Lu, M Xie, B Yang, W Zhao, J Cao - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a promising and precise targeted
therapy for cancer that has demonstrated notable potential in clinical applications. However …

speedingCARs: accelerating the engineering of CAR T cells by signaling domain shuffling and single-cell sequencing

R Castellanos-Rueda, RB Di Roberto… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) consist of an antigen-binding region fused to
intracellular signaling domains, enabling customized T cell responses against targets …