CD4+ T cells in cancer

DE Speiser, O Chijioke, K Schaeuble, C Münz - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunology and immunotherapy are driving forces of research and development in
oncology, mostly focusing on CD8+ T cells and the tumor microenvironment. Recent …

Tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells as targets of cancer immunotherapy

C Tay, A Tanaka, S Sakaguchi - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are abundant in tumor tissues, raising a question of whether
immunosuppressive tumor-infiltrating Tregs (TI-Tregs) can be selectively depleted or …

Combination strategies with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: current advances and future directions

M Yi, X Zheng, M Niu, S Zhu, H Ge, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Antibodies targeting programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) or its ligand PD-L1 rescue T
cells from exhausted status and revive immune response against cancer cells. Based on the …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

The foundations of immune checkpoint blockade and the ipilimumab approval decennial

AJ Korman, SC Garrett-Thomson… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunity, and the potential for cancer immunotherapy, have been topics of scientific
discussion and experimentation for over a hundred years. Several successful cancer …

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 …

Tumor immunotherapies by immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs); the pros and cons

A Naimi, RN Mohammed, A Raji, S Chupradit… - Cell communication and …, 2022 - Springer
The main breakthrough in tumor immunotherapy was the discovery of immune checkpoint
(IC) proteins, which act as a potent suppressor of the immune system by a myriad of …

From bench to bedside: the history and progress of CAR T cell therapy

A Mitra, A Barua, L Huang, S Ganguly, Q Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy represents a major breakthrough in cancer
care since the approval of tisagenlecleucel by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017 for …

Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology

S Zinn, R Vazquez-Lombardi, C Zimmermann, P Sapra… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies are a growing class of targeted cancer therapeutics, characterized by
exquisite specificity, long serum half-life, high affinity and immune effector functions. In this …

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 …