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 …

DNA damage repair: historical perspectives, mechanistic pathways and clinical translation for targeted cancer therapy

R Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of
DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is …

CAR-NK cells: A promising cellular immunotherapy for cancer

G Xie, H Dong, Y Liang, JD Ham, R Rizwan, J Chen - EBioMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
Natural Killer (NK) cells and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells are two types of immune cells that can
kill target cells through similar cytotoxic mechanisms. With the remarkable success of …

Designing cancer immunotherapies that engage T cells and NK cells

O Kyrysyuk, KW Wucherpfennig - Annual review of immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
T cells and natural killer (NK) cells have complementary roles in tumor immunity, and dual T
cell and NK cell attack thus offers opportunities to deepen the impact of immunotherapy …

TREM2 macrophages drive NK cell paucity and dysfunction in lung cancer

MD Park, I Reyes-Torres, J LeBerichel, P Hamon… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are commonly reduced in human tumors, enabling many to evade
surveillance. Here, we sought to identify cues that alter NK cell activity in tumors. We found …

Targeting the DNA damage response in immuno-oncology: developments and opportunities

RM Chabanon, M Rouanne, CJ Lord, JC Soria… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and substantially improved patient
outcome with regard to multiple tumour types. However, most patients still do not benefit …

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 …

A vaccine targeting resistant tumours by dual T cell plus NK cell attack

S Badrinath, MO Dellacherie, A Li, S Zheng, X Zhang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most cancer vaccines target peptide antigens, necessitating personalization owing to the
vast inter-individual diversity in major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules that …

The cancer–natural killer cell immunity cycle

ND Huntington, J Cursons, J Rautela - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy with checkpoint blockade induces rapid and durable immune control of
cancer in some patients and has driven a monumental shift in cancer treatment. Neoantigen …

Radiotherapy induces responses of lung cancer to CTLA-4 blockade

SC Formenti, NP Rudqvist, E Golden, B Cooper… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Focal radiation therapy enhances systemic responses to anti-CTLA-4 antibodies in
preclinical studies and in some patients with melanoma,–, but its efficacy in inducing …