Gene therapy returns to centre stage

L Naldini - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Recent clinical trials of gene therapy have shown remarkable therapeutic benefits and an
excellent safety record. They provide evidence for the long-sought promise of gene therapy …

T memory stem cells in health and disease

L Gattinoni, DE Speiser, M Lichterfeld, C Bonini - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
T memory stem (TSCM) cells are a rare subset of memory lymphocytes endowed with the
stem cell–like ability to self-renew and the multipotent capacity to reconstitute the entire …

Changes in the global burden of chronic liver diseases from 2012 to 2017: the growing impact of NAFLD

JM Paik, P Golabi, Y Younossi, A Mishra… - Hepatology, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Conclusions Our findings indicate that LINC00665 is involved in the NF‐κB signaling
activation in HCC cells and that the inflammatory LINC00665/PKR/NF‐κB loop plays …

Two subsets of stem-like CD8+ memory T cell progenitors with distinct fate commitments in humans

G Galletti, G De Simone, EMC Mazza, S Puccio… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
T cell memory relies on the generation of antigen-specific progenitors with stem-like
properties. However, the identity of these progenitors has remained unclear, precluding a …

Harnessing CD3 diversity to optimize CAR T cells

RMH Velasco Cárdenas, SM Brandl, AV Meléndez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Current US Food and Drug Administration-approved chimeric antigen receptor
(CAR) T cells harbor the T cell receptor (TCR)-derived ζ chain as an intracellular activation …

Lentiviral gene therapy for X-linked chronic granulomatous disease

DB Kohn, C Booth, EM Kang, SY Pai, KL Shaw… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder of phagocytic cells,. We
report the initial results of nine severely affected X-linked CGD (X-CGD) patients who …

Clonal expansion of T memory stem cells determines early anti-leukemic responses and long-term CAR T cell persistence in patients

L Biasco, N Izotova, C Rivat, S Ghorashian… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Low-affinity CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells display enhanced expansion and
persistence, enabling fate tracking through integration site analysis. Here we show that …

Generation of clinical-grade CD19-specific CAR-modified CD8+ memory stem cells for the treatment of human B-cell malignancies

M Sabatino, J Hu, M Sommariva… - Blood, The Journal …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Abstract Long-lived, self-renewing, multipotent T memory stem cells (TSCM) can trigger
profound and sustained tumor regression but their rareness poses a major hurdle to their …

Successful and maladaptive T cell aging

JJ Goronzy, CM Weyand - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Throughout life, the T cell system adapts to shifting resources and demands, resulting in a
fundamentally restructured immune system in older individuals. Here we review the cellular …

Improving CAR T-cell persistence

V Pietrobon, LA Todd, A Goswami, O Stefanson… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade remarkable progress has been made in enhancing the efficacy of CAR
T therapies. However, the clinical benefits are still limited, especially in solid tumors. Even in …