Strategies to therapeutically modulate cytokine action

WJ Leonard, JX Lin - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted or membrane-presented molecules that mediate broad cellular
functions, including development, differentiation, growth and survival. Accordingly, the …

The use of supercytokines, immunocytokines, engager cytokines, and other synthetic cytokines in immunotherapy

X Zheng, Y Wu, J Bi, Y Huang, Y Cheng, Y Li… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytokines exert powerful immunomodulatory effects that are critical to physiology and
pathology in humans. The application of natural cytokines in clinical studies has not been …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

The present and future of bispecific antibodies for cancer therapy

C Klein, U Brinkmann, JM Reichert… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2024 - nature.com
Bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) enable novel mechanisms of action and/or therapeutic
applications that cannot be achieved using conventional IgG-based antibodies …

A split, conditionally active mimetic of IL-2 reduces the toxicity of systemic cytokine therapy

A Quijano-Rubio, AM Bhuiyan, H Yang, I Leung… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The therapeutic potential of recombinant cytokines has been limited by the severe side
effects of systemic administration. We describe a strategy to reduce the dose-limiting …

Fundamentals of T cell metabolism and strategies to enhance cancer immunotherapy

GO Rangel Rivera, HM Knochelmann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Emerging reports show that metabolic pathways can be targeted to enhance T cell-mediated
immunity to tumors. Yet, tumors consume key metabolites in the host to survive, thus robbing …

Roles for macrophage-polarizing interleukins in cancer immunity and immunotherapy

K Mortezaee, J Majidpoor - Cellular Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Macrophages are the most abundant and one of the most critical cells of tumor immunity.
They provide a bridge between innate and adaptive immunity through releasing cytokines …

An engineered IL15 cytokine mutein fused to an anti-PD1 improves intratumoral T-cell function and antitumor immunity

Y Xu, LC Carrascosa, YA Yeung, MLH Chu… - Cancer immunology …, 2021 - AACR
The use of cytokines for immunotherapy shows clinical efficacy but is frequently
accompanied by severe adverse events caused by excessive and systemic immune …

The application of Interleukin-2 family cytokines in tumor immunotherapy research

Y Zhou, G Quan, Y Liu, N Shi, Y Wu, R Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Interleukin-2 Family contains six kinds of cytokines, namely IL-2, IL-15, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9,
and IL-21, all of which share a common γ chain. Many cytokines of the IL-2 family have been …

An engineered concealed IL-15-R elicits tumor-specific CD8+T cell responses through PD-1-cis delivery

J Shen, Z Zou, J Guo, Y Cai, D Xue, Y Liang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Checkpoint blockade immunotherapy releases the inhibition of tumor-infiltrating
lymphocytes (TILs) but weakly induces TIL proliferation. Exogenous IL-15 could further …