[HTML][HTML] Cancer immunotherapy based on natural killer cells: current progress and new opportunities

W Hu, G Wang, D Huang, M Sui, Y Xu - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy has been firmly established as a new milestone for cancer therapy,
with the development of multiple immune cells as therapeutic tools. Natural killer (NK) cells …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering cytokine therapeutics

J Deckers, T Anbergen, AM Hokke, A de Dreu… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines have pivotal roles in immunity, making them attractive as therapeutics for a variety
of immune-related disorders. However, the widespread clinical use of cytokines has been …

De novo design of potent and selective mimics of IL-2 and IL-15

DA Silva, S Yu, UY Ulge, JB Spangler, KM Jude… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
We describe a de novo computational approach for designing proteins that recapitulate the
binding sites of natural cytokines, but are otherwise unrelated in topology or amino acid …

Eradication of large established tumors in mice by combination immunotherapy that engages innate and adaptive immune responses

KD Moynihan, CF Opel, GL Szeto, A Tzeng, EF Zhu… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Checkpoint blockade with antibodies specific for cytotoxic T lymphocyte–associated protein
(CTLA)-4 or programmed cell death 1 (PDCD1; also known as PD-1) elicits durable tumor …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted modulation of immune cells and tissues using engineered biomaterials

P Yousefpour, K Ni, DJ Irvine - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Therapies modulating the immune system offer the prospect of treating a wide range of
conditions including infectious diseases, cancer and autoimmunity. Biomaterials can …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Interleukin-1 as innate mediator of T cell immunity

B Van Den Eeckhout, J Tavernier, S Gerlo - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The three-signal paradigm tries to capture how the innate immune system instructs adaptive
immune responses in three well-defined actions:(1) presentation of antigenic peptides in the …

[HTML][HTML] Delivering safer immunotherapies for cancer

L Milling, Y Zhang, DJ Irvine - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy is now a powerful clinical reality, with a steady progression of new
drug approvals and a massive pipeline of additional treatments in clinical and preclinical …

[HTML][HTML] A next-generation tumor-targeting IL-2 preferentially promotes tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T-cell response and effective tumor control

Z Sun, Z Ren, K Yang, Z Liu, S Cao, S Deng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
While IL-2 can potently activate both NK and T cells, its short in vivo half-life, severe toxicity,
and propensity to amplify Treg cells are major barriers that prevent IL-2 from being widely …