Adoptive immunotherapy with engineered iNKT cells to target cancer cells and the suppressive microenvironment

G Delfanti, P Dellabona, G Casorati, M Fedeli - Frontiers in medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Invariant Natural Killer T (iNKT) cells are T lymphocytes expressing a conserved semi-
invariant TCR specific for lipid antigens (Ags) restricted for the monomorphic MHC class I …

License to kill: when iNKT cells are granted the use of lethal cytotoxicity

A Díaz-Basabe, F Strati, F Facciotti - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Invariant Natural Killer T (iNKT) cells are a non-conventional, innate-like, T cell population
that recognize lipid antigens presented by the cluster of differentiation (CD) 1d molecule …

Lipidomic scanning of self-lipids identifies headless antigens for natural killer T cells

TY Cheng, T Praveena, S Govindarajan… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
To broadly measure the spectrum of cellular self-antigens for natural killer T cells (NKT), we
developed a sensitive lipidomics system to analyze lipids trapped between CD1d and NKT T …

Intratumoral NKT cell accumulation promotes antitumor immunity in pancreatic cancer

J Li, P Moresco, DT Fearon - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a potentially lethal disease lacking effective
treatments. Its immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) allows it to evade host …

A bispecific T cell engager recruits both type 1 NKT and Vγ9Vδ2-T cells for the treatment of CD1d-expressing hematological malignancies

R Lameris, JM Ruben, V Iglesias-Guimarais… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Bispecific T cell engagers (bsTCEs) hold great promise for cancer treatment but face
challenges due to the induction of cytokine release syndrome (CRS), on-target off-tumor …

CD1 lipidomes reveal lipid-binding motifs and size-based antigen-display mechanisms

S Huang, A Shahine, TY Cheng, YL Chen, SW Ng… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The CD1 system binds lipid antigens for display to T cells. Here, we solved lipidomes for the
four human CD1 antigen-presenting molecules, providing a map of self-lipid display …

A single-domain bispecific antibody targeting CD1d and the NKT T-cell receptor induces a potent antitumor response

R Lameris, A Shahine, DG Pellicci, AP Uldrich, S Gras… - Nature Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Antibody-mediated modulation of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, or
MHC class I-like molecules, could constitute an effective immunotherapeutic approach. We …

Endoplasmic reticulum quality control in immune cells

Y Jiang, Z Tao, H Chen, S Xia - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The endoplasmic reticulum quality control (ERQC) system, including endoplasmic reticulum-
associated degradation (ERAD), the unfolded protein response (UPR), and autophagy …

Unravelling metabolic factors impacting iNKT cell biology in obesity

C Wilkin, J Piette, S Legrand-Poels - Biochemical Pharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
Obesity and related diseases have reached epidemic proportions and continue to rise.
Beyond creating an economical burden, obesity and its co-morbidities are associated with …

Harnessing invariant natural killer T cells to control pathological inflammation

NS Bharadwaj, JE Gumperz - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are innate T cells that are recognized for their potent
immune modulatory functions. Over the last three decades, research in murine models and …