Engineering IL-2 for immunotherapy of autoimmunity and cancer

R Hernandez, J Põder, KM LaPorte… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Preclinical studies of the T cell growth factor activity of IL-2 resulted in this cytokine
becoming the first immunotherapy to be approved nearly 30 years ago by the US Food and …

Cytokine storm and COVID-19: a chronicle of pro-inflammatory cytokines

A Fara, Z Mitrev, RA Rosalia, BM Assas - Open biology, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has swept the world, unlike any other pandemic in
the last 50 years. Our understanding of the disease has evolved rapidly since the outbreak; …

Synthetic nanoparticles for vaccines and immunotherapy

DJ Irvine, MC Hanson, K Rakhra, T Tokatlian - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The immune system plays a critical role in our health. No other component of human
physiology plays a decisive role in as diverse an array of maladies, from deadly diseases …

The promise of low-dose interleukin-2 therapy for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases

D Klatzmann, AK Abbas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Depletion of regulatory T (TReg) cells in otherwise healthy individuals leads to multi-organ
autoimmune disease and inflammation. This indicates that in a normal immune system …

Interleukin-2: biology, design and application

N Arenas-Ramirez, J Woytschak, O Boyman - Trends in immunology, 2015 - cell.com
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) exerts crucial functions during immune homeostasis via its effects on
regulatory T (Treg) cells, and the optimizing and fine-tuning of effector lymphocyte …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of effector and memory CD8 T cell differentiation by IL-2—a balancing act

V Kalia, S Sarkar - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) regulates key aspects of CD8 T cell biology–signaling through distinct
pathways IL-2 triggers critical metabolic and transcriptional changes that lead to a spectrum …

Intelligent photothermal dendritic cells restart the cancer immunity cycle through enhanced immunogenic cell death

Z Sun, G Deng, X Peng, X Xu, L Liu, J Peng, Y Ma… - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
Dendritic cells (DCs) play a pivotal role in initiating antigen-specific tumor immunity.
However, the abnormal function of DCs owing to the immunosuppressive tumor …

An IL-2-grafted antibody immunotherapy with potent efficacy against metastatic cancer

D Sahin, N Arenas-Ramirez, M Rath, U Karakus… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Modified interleukin-2 (IL-2) formulations are being tested in cancer patients.
However, IL-2 immunotherapy damages IL-2 receptor (IL-2R)-positive endothelial cells and …

Immune therapy opportunities in ovarian cancer

LE Kandalaft, K Odunsi, G Coukos - American Society of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
Immunotherapy has emerged as a highly promising approach in the treatment of epithelial
ovarian cancer (EOC). Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy, PARP inhibitors …

Improved cancer immunotherapy by a CD25-mimobody conferring selectivity to human interleukin-2

N Arenas-Ramirez, C Zou, S Popp, D Zingg… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) immunotherapy is an attractive approach in treating advanced cancer.
However, by binding to its IL-2 receptor α (CD25) subunit, IL-2 exerts unwanted effects …