Roles of natural killer cells in immunity to cancer, and applications to immunotherapy

NK Wolf, DU Kissiov, DH Raulet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Great strides have been made in recent years towards understanding the roles of natural
killer (NK) cells in immunity to tumours and viruses. NK cells are cytotoxic innate lymphoid …

The emerging roles of γδ T cells in cancer immunotherapy

S Mensurado, R Blanco-Domínguez… - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Current cancer immunotherapies are primarily predicated on αβ T cells, with a stringent
dependence on MHC-mediated presentation of tumour-enriched peptides or unique …

NK cells for cancer immunotherapy

N Shimasaki, A Jain, D Campana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells can swiftly kill multiple adjacent cells if these show surface markers
associated with oncogenic transformation. This property, which is unique among immune …

γδ T cells: origin and fate, subsets, diseases and immunotherapy

Y Hu, Q Hu, Y Li, L Lu, Z Xiang, Z Yin… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
The intricacy of diseases, shaped by intrinsic processes like immune system exhaustion and
hyperactivation, highlights the potential of immune renormalization as a promising strategy …

Control of metastasis by NK cells

A López-Soto, S Gonzalez, MJ Smyth, L Galluzzi - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
The metastatic spread of malignant cells to distant anatomical locations is a prominent
cause of cancer-related death. Metastasis is governed by cancer-cell-intrinsic mechanisms …

Function of γδ T cells in tumor immunology and their application to cancer therapy

JH Park, HK Lee - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2021 - nature.com
T cells of the γδ lineage are unconventional T cells with functions not restricted to MHC-
mediated antigen presentation. Because of their broad antigen specificity and NK-like …

γδ T cells: pleiotropic immune effectors with therapeutic potential in cancer

B Silva-Santos, S Mensurado, SB Coffelt - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
The potential of cancer immunotherapy relies on the mobilization of immune cells capable of
producing antitumour cytokines and effectively killing tumour cells. These are major …

HLA-E-expressing pluripotent stem cells escape allogeneic responses and lysis by NK cells

GG Gornalusse, RK Hirata, SE Funk, L Riolobos… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Polymorphisms in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I genes can cause the rejection
of pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived products in allogeneic recipients. Disruption of the …

γδ T cells in cancer

B Silva-Santos, K Serre, H Norell - Nature reviews immunology, 2015 - nature.com
With the promise of T cell-based therapy for cancer finally becoming reality, this Review
focuses on the less-studied γδ T cell lineage and its diverse responses to tumours. γδ T cells …

[HTML][HTML] The concept of immune surveillance against tumors: The first theories

D Ribatti - Oncotarget, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The immune system plays a major role in the surveillance against tumors. To avoid attack
from the immune system, tumor cells develop different strategies to escape immune …