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 …

T cell exhaustion

A Baessler, DAA Vignali - Annual Review of Immunology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
T cell responses must be balanced to ensure adequate protection against malignant
transformation and an array of pathogens while also limiting damage to healthy cells and …

T cell dysfunction and therapeutic intervention in cancer

CC Zebley, D Zehn, S Gottschalk, H Chi - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in immunotherapy have affirmed the curative potential of T cell-based
approaches for treating relapsed and refractory cancers. However, the therapeutic efficacy is …

Cellular and molecular waypoints along the path of T cell exhaustion

X Lan, CC Zebley, B Youngblood - Science immunology, 2023 - science.org
Thirty years of foundational research investigating molecular and cellular mechanisms
promoting T cell exhaustion are now enabling rational design of T cell–based therapies for …

Tonic-signaling chimeric antigen receptors drive human regulatory T cell exhaustion

C Lamarche, K Ward-Hartstonge, T Mi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Regulatory T cell (Treg) therapy is a promising approach to improve outcomes in
transplantation and autoimmunity. In conventional T cell therapy, chronic stimulation can …

Stepwise activities of mSWI/SNF family chromatin remodeling complexes direct T cell activation and exhaustion

E Battistello, KA Hixon, DE Comstock, CK Collings… - Molecular cell, 2023 - cell.com
Highly coordinated changes in gene expression underlie T cell activation and exhaustion.
However, the mechanisms by which such programs are regulated and how these may be …

Culture expansion of CAR T cells results in aberrant DNA methylation that is associated with adverse clinical outcome

L Salz, A Seitz, D Schäfer, J Franzen, T Holzer… - Leukemia, 2023 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells provide new perspectives for treatment of
hematological malignancies. Manufacturing of these cellular products includes culture …

CAR-T cell therapy for hematological malignancies: Limitations and optimization strategies

J Huang, X Huang, J Huang - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the past decade, the emergence of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has led
to a cellular immunotherapy revolution against various cancers. Although CAR-T cell …

Methylation across the central dogma in health and diseases: new therapeutic strategies

R Liu, E Zhao, H Yu, C Yuan, MN Abbas… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
The proper transfer of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein is essential for cell-
fate control, development, and health. Methylation of DNA, RNAs, histones, and non-histone …

Mechanisms of CAR T cell exhaustion and current counteraction strategies

X Zhu, Q Li, X Zhu - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The functional state of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells determines their efficacy in
vivo. Exhausted CAR T cells exhibit decreased proliferative capacity, impaired anti-tumor …