CD4+ T cells in cancer

DE Speiser, O Chijioke, K Schaeuble, C Münz - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy are driving forces of research and development in
oncology, mostly focusing on CD8+ T cells and the tumor microenvironment. Recent …

A decade of checkpoint blockade immunotherapy in melanoma: understanding the molecular basis for immune sensitivity and resistance

AC Huang, R Zappasodi - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Ten years since the immune checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab was approved for advanced
melanoma, it is time to reflect on the lessons learned regarding modulation of the immune …

Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes: from prognosis to treatment selection

K Brummel, AL Eerkens, M de Bruyn… - British Journal of …, 2023 - nature.com
Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) are considered crucial in anti-tumour immunity.
Accordingly, the presence of TILs contains prognostic and predictive value. In 2011, we …

T follicular helper cells in cancer

N Gutiérrez-Melo, D Baumjohann - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells provide essential help to B cells for effective antibody-mediated
immune responses. Although the crucial function of these CD4+ T cells in infection and …

Forks in the road for CAR T and CAR NK cell cancer therapies

OK Dagher, AD Posey Jr - Nature Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The advent of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has resulted in unprecedented
long-term clearance of relapse/refractory hematological malignancies in both pediatric and …

Modulating Treg stability to improve cancer immunotherapy

JH Kang, R Zappasodi - Trends in cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Immunosuppressive regulatory T cells (Tregs) provide a main mechanism of tumor immune
evasion. Targeting Tregs, especially in the tumor microenvironment (TME), continues to be …

Reconstruction of the tumor spatial microenvironment along the malignant-boundary-nonmalignant axis

Z Xun, X Ding, Y Zhang, B Zhang, S Lai, D Zou… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Although advances in spatial transcriptomics (ST) enlarge to unveil spatial landscape of
tissues, it remains challenging to delineate pathology-relevant and cellular localizations …

B cells in the tumor microenvironment: Multi-faceted organizers, regulators, and effectors of anti-tumor immunity

CM Laumont, BH Nelson - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Our understanding of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) is rapidly expanding beyond T cell-
centric perspectives to include B cells and plasma cells, collectively referred to as TIL-Bs. In …

Fcγ receptors and immunomodulatory antibodies in cancer

F Galvez-Cancino, AP Simpson, C Costoya… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The discovery of both cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA4) and
programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1) as negative regulators of antitumour immunity led to …

Regulatory T cells in autoimmunity and cancer: a duplicitous lifestyle

A Hatzioannou, A Boumpas, M Papadopoulou… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Regulatory T (Treg) cells, possess a strategic role in the maintenance of immune
homeostasis, and their function has been closely linked to development of diverse …