T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

CD8+ T cell differentiation and dysfunction in cancer

M Philip, A Schietinger - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells specific for cancer cells are detected within tumours. However, despite their
presence, tumours progress. The clinical success of immune checkpoint blockade and …

Deleting DNMT3A in CAR T cells prevents exhaustion and enhances antitumor activity

B Prinzing, CC Zebley, CT Petersen, Y Fan… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is revolutionizing cancer immunotherapy for
patients with B cell malignancies and is now being developed for solid tumors and chronic …

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 …

Heterogenous populations of tissue-resident CD8+ T cells are generated in response to infection and malignancy

JJ Milner, C Toma, Z He, NS Kurd, QP Nguyen… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells (Trm) provide host protection through continuous
surveillance of non-lymphoid tissues. Using single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and …

CDK4/6 inhibition promotes antitumor immunity through the induction of T-cell memory

EJ Lelliott, IY Kong, M Zethoven, KM Ramsbottom… - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Pharmacologic inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) are an approved
treatment for hormone receptor–positive breast cancer and are currently under evaluation …

[HTML][HTML] A committed tissue-resident memory T cell precursor within the circulating CD8+ effector T cell pool

L Kok, FE Dijkgraaf, J Urbanus, K Bresser… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
An increasing body of evidence emphasizes the role of tissue-resident memory T cells (T
RM) in the defense against recurring pathogens and malignant neoplasms. However, little is …

Regulation of CD8+ T memory and exhaustion by the mTOR signals

Y Chen, Z Xu, H Sun, X Ouyang, Y Han, H Yu… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are the key executioners of the adaptive immune arm, which mediates
antitumor and antiviral immunity. Naïve CD8+ T cells develop in the thymus and are quickly …

The multifaceted output of c-Jun biological activity: focus at the junction of CD8 T cell activation and exhaustion

AG Papavassiliou, AM Musti - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
c-Jun is a major component of the dimeric transcription factor activator protein-1 (AP-1), a
paradigm for transcriptional response to extracellular signaling, whose components are …

The functional requirement for CD69 in establishment of resident memory CD8+ T cells varies with tissue location

DA Walsh, H Borges da Silva, LK Beura… - The Journal of …, 2019 - journals.aai.org
Recent studies have characterized populations of memory CD8+ T cells that do not
recirculate through the blood but are, instead, retained in nonlymphoid tissues. Such CD8+ …