Hallmarks of response, resistance, and toxicity to immune checkpoint blockade

G Morad, BA Helmink, P Sharma, JA Wargo - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Unprecedented advances have been made in cancer treatment with the use of immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB). However, responses are limited to a subset of patients, and …

Oncolytic virotherapy: basic principles, recent advances and future directions

D Lin, Y Shen, T Liang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) have attracted growing awareness in the twenty-first century, as they
are generally considered to have direct oncolysis and cancer immune effects. With the …

Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

Mechanisms of immune activation and regulation: lessons from melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, JA Wargo, Y Samuels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Melanoma, a skin cancer that develops from pigment cells, has been studied intensively,
particularly in terms of the immune response to tumours, and has been used as a model for …

Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors

GM Allen, NW Frankel, NR Reddy, HK Bhargava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are ineffective against solid tumors with
immunosuppressive microenvironments. To overcome suppression, we engineered circuits …

Nanomaterials for T-cell cancer immunotherapy

N Gong, NC Sheppard, MM Billingsley, CH June… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
T-cell-based immunotherapies hold promise for the treatment of many types of cancer, with
three approved products for B-cell malignancies and a large pipeline of treatments in clinical …

Bispecific PD1-IL2v and anti-PD-L1 break tumor immunity resistance by enhancing stem-like tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells and reprogramming macrophages

M Tichet, S Wullschleger, A Chryplewicz, N Fournier… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Immunotherapies have shown remarkable, albeit tumor-selective, therapeutic benefits in the
clinic. Most patients respond transiently at best, highlighting the importance of …

Human immunology and immunotherapy: main achievements and challenges

J Varadé, S Magadán… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
The immune system is a fascinating world of cells, soluble factors, interacting cells, and
tissues, all of which are interconnected. The highly complex nature of the immune system …

KRAS drives immune evasion in a genetic model of pancreatic cancer

I Ischenko, S D'Amico, M Rao, J Li, MJ Hayman… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune evasion is a hallmark of KRAS-driven cancers, but the underlying causes remain
unresolved. Here, we use a mouse model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma to inactivate …

The use of supercytokines, immunocytokines, engager cytokines, and other synthetic cytokines in immunotherapy

X Zheng, Y Wu, J Bi, Y Huang, Y Cheng, Y Li… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytokines exert powerful immunomodulatory effects that are critical to physiology and
pathology in humans. The application of natural cytokines in clinical studies has not been …