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 …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary tryptophan metabolite released by intratumoral Lactobacillus reuteri facilitates immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment

MJ Bender, AC McPherson, CM Phelps, SP Pandey… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The use of probiotics by cancer patients is increasing, including among those undergoing
immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment. Here, we elucidate a critical microbial-host …

Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy

G Oliveira, CJ Wu - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy—ranging from immune-checkpoint blockade
therapy to adoptive cellular therapy and vaccines—have revolutionized cancer treatment …

Tertiary lymphoid structures in cancer

TN Schumacher, DS Thommen - Science, 2022 - science.org
BACKGROUND Tertiary lymphoid structures (TLSs) are organized aggregates of immune
cells that form postnatally in nonlymphoid tissues. TLSs are not found under physiological …

Pan-cancer single-cell landscape of tumor-infiltrating T cells

L Zheng, S Qin, W Si, A Wang, B Xing, R Gao, X Ren… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cancer immunotherapies that target tumor-specific T cells have benefited
many cancer patients, but the clinical efficacy varies greatly among different cancer types …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

Intratumoral dendritic cell–CD4+ T helper cell niches enable CD8+ T cell differentiation following PD-1 blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Magen, P Hamon, N Fiaschi, BY Soong, MD Park… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Despite no apparent defects in T cell priming and recruitment to tumors, a large subset of T
cell rich tumors fail to respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). We leveraged a …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic CD8+ T cell responses to cancer immunotherapy in human regional lymph nodes are disrupted in metastatic lymph nodes

MK Rahim, TLH Okholm, KB Jones, EE McCarthy… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cell responses are critical for anti-tumor immunity. While extensively profiled in the
tumor microenvironment, recent studies in mice identified responses in lymph nodes (LNs) …