High-throughput and single-cell T cell receptor sequencing technologies

JA Pai, AT Satpathy - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
T cells express T cell receptors (TCRs) composed of somatically recombined TCRα and
TCRβ chains, which mediate recognition of major histocompatibility complex (MHC)–antigen …

The diverse functions of the PD1 inhibitory pathway

AH Sharpe, KE Pauken - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
T cell activation is a highly regulated process involving peptide–MHC engagement of the T
cell receptor and positive costimulatory signals. Upon activation, coinhibitory'checkpoints' …

[HTML][HTML] MYB orchestrates T cell exhaustion and response to checkpoint inhibition

C Tsui, L Kretschmer, S Rapelius, SS Gabriel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells that respond to chronic viral infections or cancer are characterized by the
expression of inhibitory receptors such as programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and by …

Clonal expansion and epigenetic inheritance of long-lasting NK cell memory

T Rückert, CA Lareau, MF Mashreghi, LS Ludwig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Clonal expansion of cells with somatically diversified receptors and their long-term
maintenance as memory cells is a hallmark of adaptive immunity. Here, we studied …

Therapeutic T cell engineering

M Sadelain, I Rivière, S Riddell - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Genetically engineered T cells are powerful new medicines, offering hope for curative
responses in patients with cancer. Chimaeric antigen receptors (CARs) are a class of …

Effector CD8 T cells dedifferentiate into long-lived memory cells

B Youngblood, JS Hale, HT Kissick, E Ahn, X Xu… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Memory CD8 T cells that circulate in the blood and are present in lymphoid organs are an
essential component of long-lived T cell immunity. These memory CD8 T cells remain …

Adoptive cell transfer as personalized immunotherapy for human cancer

SA Rosenberg, NP Restifo - Science, 2015 - science.org
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is a highly personalized cancer therapy that involves
administration to the cancer-bearing host of immune cells with direct anticancer activity. ACT …

Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells derived from defined CD8+ and CD4+ subsets confer superior antitumor reactivity in vivo

D Sommermeyer, M Hudecek, PL Kosasih, T Gogishvili… - Leukemia, 2016 - nature.com
Adoptive T-cell therapy with gene-modified T cells expressing a tumor-reactive T-cell
receptor or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) is a rapidly growing field of translational …

T memory stem cells in health and disease

L Gattinoni, DE Speiser, M Lichterfeld, C Bonini - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
T memory stem (TSCM) cells are a rare subset of memory lymphocytes endowed with the
stem cell–like ability to self-renew and the multipotent capacity to reconstitute the entire …

Cytomegalovirus infection drives adaptive epigenetic diversification of NK cells with altered signaling and effector function

H Schlums, F Cichocki, B Tesi, J Theorell, V Beziat… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying human natural killer (NK) cell phenotypic and functional
heterogeneity are unknown. Here, we describe the emergence of diverse subsets of human …