The broad spectrum of human natural killer cell diversity

AG Freud, BL Mundy-Bosse, J Yu, MA Caligiuri - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells provide protection against infectious pathogens and cancer. For
decades it has been appreciated that two major NK cell subsets (CD56 bright and CD56 …

Cell biological steps and checkpoints in accessing NK cell cytotoxicity

EM Mace, P Dongre, HT Hsu, P Sinha… - Immunology and cell …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Natural killer (NK) cell‐mediated cytotoxicity is governed by the formation of a lytic immune
synapse in discrete regulated steps, which give rise to an extensive array of cellular …

In vivo killing capacity of cytotoxic T cells is limited and involves dynamic interactions and T cell cooperativity

S Halle, KA Keyser, FR Stahl, A Busche, A Marquardt… - Immunity, 2016 - cell.com
According to in vitro assays, T cells are thought to kill rapidly and efficiently, but the efficacy
and dynamics of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL)-mediated killing of virus-infected cells in vivo …

Natural Killer Cell Engagers (NKCEs): a new frontier in cancer immunotherapy

M Zhang, KP Lam, S Xu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Natural Killer (NK) cells are a type of innate lymphoid cells that play a crucial role in
immunity by killing virally infected or tumor cells and secreting cytokines and chemokines …

A bispecific antibody-based approach for targeting mesothelin in triple negative breast cancer

J Del Bano, R Florès-Florès, E Josselin… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) remain a major medical challenge due to poor
prognosis and limited treatment options. Mesothelin is a glycosyl-phosphatidyl inositol …

NK-DC crosstalk controls the autopathogenic Th17 response through an innate IFN-γ–IL-27 axis

WP Chong, N van Panhuys, J Chen, PB Silver… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - rupress.org
IFN-γ is a pathogenic cytokine involved in inflammation. Paradoxically, its deficiency
exacerbates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, uveitis, and arthritis. Here, we …

Predictive markers of immunogenicity and efficacy for human vaccines

M Van Tilbeurgh, K Lemdani, AS Beignon, C Chapon… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vaccines represent one of the major advances of modern medicine. Despite the many
successes of vaccination, continuous efforts to design new vaccines are needed to fight “old” …

Functional heterogeneity of cytotoxic T cells and tumor resistance to cytotoxic hits limit anti‐tumor activity in vivo

R Khazen, M Cazaux, F Lemaître, B Corre… - The EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) can eliminate tumor cells through the delivery of lethal hits, but the
actual efficiency of this process in the tumor microenvironment is unclear. Here, we …

The role of ocular dendritic cells in uveitis

W Lin, T Liu, B Wang, H Bi - Immunology letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Dendritic cells (DCs) act as a bridge between innate and adoptive immunity. They are widely
distributed in various tissues and organs. Resident ocular DCs are found in the peripheral …

In Vivo Motility Patterns Displayed by Immune Cells Under Inflammatory Conditions

DU Pizzagalli, A Pulfer, M Thelen, R Krause… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The migration of immune cells plays a key role in inflammation. This is evident in the fact that
inflammatory stimuli elicit a broad range of migration patterns in immune cells. Since these …