Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy

TJ Laskowski, A Biederstädt, K Rezvani - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a unique population of innate lymphoid cells endowed with
intrinsic abilities to identify and eliminate virally infected cells and tumour cells. Possessing …

Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …

Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

JA Belk, W Yao, N Ly, KA Freitas, YT Chen, Q Shi… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
T cell exhaustion limits antitumor immunity, but the molecular determinants of this process
remain poorly understood. Using a chronic stimulation assay, we performed genome-wide …

[HTML][HTML] An NK-like CAR T cell transition in CAR T cell dysfunction

CR Good, MA Aznar, S Kuramitsu, P Samareh… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has achieved remarkable success in
hematological malignancies but remains ineffective in solid tumors, due in part to CAR T cell …

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 …

Overcoming TGFβ-mediated immune evasion in cancer

DVF Tauriello, E Sancho, E Batlle - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) signalling controls multiple cell fate decisions during
development and tissue homeostasis; hence, dysregulation of this pathway can drive …

High-yield genome engineering in primary cells using a hybrid ssDNA repair template and small-molecule cocktails

BR Shy, VS Vykunta, A Ha, A Talbot, TL Roth… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Enhancing CRISPR-mediated site-specific transgene insertion efficiency by homology-
directed repair (HDR) using high concentrations of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) with …

A genome-scale screen for synthetic drivers of T cell proliferation

M Legut, Z Gajic, M Guarino, Z Daniloski, JA Rahman… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The engineering of autologous patient T cells for adoptive cell therapies has revolutionized
the treatment of several types of cancer. However, further improvements are needed to …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering CAR-T cells for next-generation cancer therapy

M Hong, JD Clubb, YY Chen - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with tumor specificity have
shown remarkable success in treating patients with hematologic malignancies and …