Understanding the tumor microenvironment for effective immunotherapy

H Sadeghi Rad, J Monkman… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in immunotherapy have led to durable and long‐term benefits in a subset of
patients across a number of solid tumor types. Understanding of the subsets of patients that …

Efficient engineering of human and mouse primary cells using peptide-assisted genome editing

Z Zhang, AE Baxter, D Ren, K Qin, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Simple, efficient and well-tolerated delivery of CRISPR genome editing systems into primary
cells remains a major challenge. Here we describe an engineered Peptide-Assisted …

[PDF][PDF] Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy induces dynamic changes in PD-1− CD8+ tumor-infiltrating T cells

S Kurtulus, A Madi, G Escobar, M Klapholz, J Nyman… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
An improved understanding of the anti-tumor CD8+ T cell response after checkpoint
blockade would enable more informed and effective therapeutic strategies. Here we …

[PDF][PDF] TCF-1-centered transcriptional network drives an effector versus exhausted CD8 T cell-fate decision

Z Chen, Z Ji, SF Ngiow, S Manne, Z Cai, AC Huang… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
TCF-1 is a key transcription factor in progenitor exhausted CD8 T cells (Tex). Moreover, this
Tex cell subset mediates responses to PD-1 checkpoint pathway blockade. However, the …

Cellular networks controlling T cell persistence in adoptive cell therapy

JD Chan, J Lai, CY Slaney, A Kallies… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The antitumour activity of endogenous or adoptively transferred tumour-specific T cells is
highly dependent on their differentiation status. It is now apparent that less differentiated T …

De-novo and acquired resistance to immune checkpoint targeting

NL Syn, MWL Teng, TSK Mok, RA Soo - The Lancet Oncology, 2017 - thelancet.com
Use of immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the programmed cell death protein-
1/programmed cell death-ligand 1 and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein-4 axes has …

Epigenetic therapy in immune-oncology

PA Jones, H Ohtani, A Chakravarthy… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
DNA methylation inhibitors have become the mainstay for treatment of certain
haematological malignancies. In addition to their abilities to reactivate genes, including …

[PDF][PDF] Single-cell immunology: past, present, and future

F Ginhoux, A Yalin, CA Dutertre, I Amit - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The immune system is a complex, dynamic, and plastic ecosystem composed of multiple cell
types that constantly sense and interact with their local microenvironment to protect from …

[PDF][PDF] Emerging concepts for immune checkpoint blockade-based combination therapies

R Zappasodi, T Merghoub, JD Wolchok - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Checkpoint blockade has formally demonstrated that reactivating anti-tumor immune
responses can regress tumors. However, this only occurs in a fraction of patients …

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 …