T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

CD8+ T cells in the cancer-immunity cycle

JR Giles, AM Globig, SM Kaech, EJ Wherry - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cells are end effectors of cancer immunity. Most forms of effective cancer
immunotherapy involve CD8+ T cell effector function. Here, we review the current …

PD-1 combination therapy with IL-2 modifies CD8+ T cell exhaustion program

M Hashimoto, K Araki, MA Cardenas, P Li, RR Jadhav… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Combination therapy with PD-1 blockade and IL-2 is highly effective during chronic
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Here we examine the underlying basis for this …

Single-cell multi-omics analysis of the immune response in COVID-19

E Stephenson, G Reynolds, RA Botting… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Analysis of human blood immune cells provides insights into the coordinated
response to viral infections such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which …

Shared and distinct biological circuits in effector, memory and exhausted CD8+ T cells revealed by temporal single-cell transcriptomics and epigenetics

JR Giles, SF Ngiow, S Manne, AE Baxter, O Khan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Naïve CD8+ T cells can differentiate into effector (Teff), memory (Tmem) or exhausted (Tex)
T cells. These developmental pathways are associated with distinct transcriptional and …

PD-1-cis IL-2R agonism yields better effectors from stem-like CD8+ T cells

L Codarri Deak, V Nicolini, M Hashimoto, M Karagianni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Expansion and differentiation of antigen-experienced PD-1+ TCF-1+ stem-like CD8+ T cells
into effector cells is critical for the success of immunotherapies based on PD-1 blockade …

Phenotype, specificity and avidity of antitumour CD8+ T cells in melanoma

G Oliveira, K Stromhaug, S Klaeger, T Kula… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Interactions between T cell receptors (TCRs) and their cognate tumour antigens are central
to antitumour immune responses,–; however, the relationship between phenotypic …

Rapid and stable mobilization of CD8+ T cells by SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine

V Oberhardt, H Luxenburger, J Kemming, I Schulien… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 spike mRNA vaccines,–mediate protection from severe disease as early as ten
days after prime vaccination, when neutralizing antibodies are hardly detectable,–. Vaccine …

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 …

Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling

EW Weber, KR Parker, E Sotillo, RC Lynn… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION More than 50% of patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–T
cells for B cell malignancies develop progressive disease after CAR therapy, and these …