Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

PI3K inhibitors are finally coming of age

B Vanhaesebroeck, MWD Perry, JR Brown… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Overactive phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) in cancer and immune dysregulation
has spurred extensive efforts to develop therapeutic PI3K inhibitors. Although progress has …

Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling

EW Weber, KR Parker, E Sotillo, RC Lynn… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION More than 50% of patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–T
cells for B cell malignancies develop progressive disease after CAR therapy, and these …

Rapid manufacturing of non-activated potent CAR T cells

S Ghassemi, JS Durgin, S Nunez-Cruz… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells can generate durable clinical responses in B-cell
haematologic malignancies. The manufacturing of these T cells typically involves their …

The journey of CAR-T therapy in hematological malignancies

J Lu, G Jiang - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells therapy has revolutionized the treatment
paradigms for hematological malignancies, with multi-line therapy-refractory patients …

CAR T cells with dual targeting of CD19 and CD22 in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a phase 1 trial

S Cordoba, S Onuoha, S Thomas, DS Pignataro… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting CD19 or CD22 have shown remarkable
activity in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). The major cause of treatment failure …

The future of cancer immunotherapy: microenvironment-targeting combinations

YR Murciano-Goroff, AB Warner, JD Wolchok - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy holds the potential to induce durable responses, but only a minority of
patients currently respond. The etiologies of primary and secondary resistance to …

Ferroptosis promotes T-cell activation-induced neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis

J Luoqian, W Yang, X Ding, Q Tuo, Z Xiang… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
While many drugs are effective at reducing the relapse frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS),
there is an unmet need for treatments that slow neurodegeneration resulting from secondary …

Navigating metabolic pathways to enhance antitumour immunity and immunotherapy

X Li, M Wenes, P Romero, SCC Huang… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2019 - nature.com
The development of immunotherapies over the past decade has resulted in a paradigm shift
in the treatment of cancer. However, the majority of patients do not benefit from …

Precursor exhausted T cells: key to successful immunotherapy?

A Kallies, D Zehn, DT Utzschneider - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cytotoxic T cell immunity in response to chronic infections and tumours is maintained by a
specialized population of CD8+ T cells that exhibit hallmarks of both exhausted and memory …