The future of cancer treatment: immunomodulation, CARs and combination immunotherapy

DN Khalil, EL Smith, RJ Brentjens… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2016 - nature.com
In the past decade, advances in the use of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and adoptive
cellular therapy to treat cancer by modulating the immune response have led to …

Regulatory T-cells in autoimmune diseases: challenges, controversies and—yet—unanswered questions

CR Grant, R Liberal, G Mieli-Vergani, D Vergani… - Autoimmunity …, 2015 - Elsevier
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are central to the maintenance of self-tolerance and tissue
homeostasis. Markers commonly used to define human Tregs in the research setting include …

[HTML][HTML] IL4I1 is a metabolic immune checkpoint that activates the AHR and promotes tumor progression

A Sadik, LFS Patterson, S Öztürk, SR Mohapatra… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) activation by tryptophan (Trp) catabolites enhances tumor
malignancy and suppresses anti-tumor immunity. The context specificity of AHR target …

Ibrutinib enhances chimeric antigen receptor T-cell engraftment and efficacy in leukemia

JA Fraietta, KA Beckwith, PR Patel… - Blood, The Journal …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is highly promising but requires
robust T-cell expansion and engraftment. A T-cell defect in chronic lymphocytic leukemia …

CLL-cells induce IDOhi CD14+HLA-DRlo myeloid-derived suppressor cells that inhibit T-cell responses and promote TRegs

R Jitschin, M Braun, M Büttner… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) represent a heterogeneous population that
shares certain characteristics including an aberrant myeloid phenotype and the ability to …

T cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia display dysregulated expression of immune checkpoints and activation markers

M Palma, G Gentilcore, K Heimersson… - …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is characterized by impaired immune functions largely due to
profound T-cell defects. T-cell functions also depend on co-signaling receptors, inhibitory or …

T-cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: guardians or drivers of disease?

PM Roessner, M Seiffert - Leukemia, 2020 - nature.com
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a B-cell malignancy, which is associated with
profound alterations and defects in the immune system and a prevalent dependency on the …

Viral transduction of primary human lymphoma B cells reveals mechanisms of NOTCH-mediated immune escape

M Mangolini, A Maiques-Diaz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Hotspot mutations in the PEST-domain of NOTCH1 and NOTCH2 are recurrently identified
in B cell malignancies. To address how NOTCH-mutations contribute to a dismal prognosis …

Expansion of a CD8+PD-1+ Replicative Senescence Phenotype in Early Stage CLL Patients Is Associated with Inverted CD4:CD8 Ratios and Disease Progression

C Nunes, R Wong, M Mason, C Fegan, S Man… - Clinical Cancer …, 2012 - AACR
Purpose: Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) display immune deficiency that is
most obvious in advanced stage disease. Here we investigated whether this immune …

Immune effector recovery in chronic myeloid leukemia and treatment-free remission

A Hughes, ASM Yong - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a hematological cancer, characterized by a reciprocal
chromosomal translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 [t (9; 22)], producing the Bcr …