CAR T therapy beyond cancer: the evolution of a living drug

DJ Baker, Z Arany, JA Baur, JA Epstein, CH June - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Engineering a patient's own T cells to selectively target and eliminate tumour cells has cured
patients with untreatable haematologic cancers. These results have energized the field to …

Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes

PJ Chen, JA Hussmann, J Yan, F Knipping… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
While prime editing enables precise sequence changes in DNA, cellular determinants of
prime editing remain poorly understood. Using pooled CRISPRi screens, we discovered that …

CXCR3 expression in regulatory T cells drives interactions with type I dendritic cells in tumors to restrict CD8+ T cell antitumor immunity

MAM Ayala, TF Campbell, C Zhang, N Dahan… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Infiltration of regulatory T (Treg) cells, an immunosuppressive population of CD4+ T cells,
into solid cancers represents a barrier to cancer immunotherapy. Chemokine receptors are …

Engineering IL-2 for immunotherapy of autoimmunity and cancer

R Hernandez, J Põder, KM LaPorte… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Preclinical studies of the T cell growth factor activity of IL-2 resulted in this cytokine
becoming the first immunotherapy to be approved nearly 30 years ago by the US Food and …

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 …

CAR T cell therapy for patients with solid tumours: key lessons to learn and unlearn

SM Albelda - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2024 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have been approved for use in patients with B cell
malignancies or relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma, yet efficacy against most solid …

Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In …

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 …

An engineered IL-2 partial agonist promotes CD8+ T cell stemness

F Mo, Z Yu, P Li, J Oh, R Spolski, L Zhao, CR Glassman… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Adoptive transfer of antigen-specific T cells represents a major advance in cancer
immunotherapy, with robust clinical outcomes in some patients. Both the number of …