Antigen processing and immune regulation in the response to tumours

E Reeves, E James - Immunology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The MHC class I and II antigen processing and presentation pathways display peptides to
circulating CD 8+ cytotoxic and CD 4+ helper T cells respectively to enable pathogens and …

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered lymphocytes for cancer therapy

CA Ramos, G Dotti - Expert opinion on biological therapy, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) usually combine the antigen binding site of
a monoclonal antibody with the signal activating machinery of a T cell, freeing antigen …

Dual targeting of ErbB2 and MUC1 in breast cancer using chimeric antigen receptors engineered to provide complementary signaling

S Wilkie, MCI van Schalkwyk, S Hobbs… - Journal of clinical …, 2012 - Springer
Purpose Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) engineered T-cells occupy an increasing niche in
cancer immunotherapy. In this context, CAR-mediated CD3ζ signaling is sufficient to elicit …

CAR-T cell therapy for lymphoma

CA Ramos, HE Heslop… - Annual review of medicine, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Lymphomas arise from clonal expansions of B, T, or NK cells at different stages of
differentiation. Because they occur in the immunocyte-rich lymphoid tissues, they are easily …

Lung CD103+ dendritic cells efficiently transport influenza virus to the lymph node and load viral antigen onto MHC class I for presentation to CD8 T cells

AWS Ho, N Prabhu, RJ Betts, MQ Ge, X Dai… - The Journal of …, 2011 - journals.aai.org
The uptake, transport, and presentation of Ags by lung dendritic cells (DCs) are central to the
initiation of CD8 T cell responses against respiratory viruses. Although several studies have …

The MHC class-I transactivator NLRC5: implications to cancer immunology and potential applications to cancer immunotherapy

A Shukla, M Cloutier, M Appiya Santharam… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The immune system constantly monitors the emergence of cancerous cells and eliminates
them. CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), which kill tumor cells and provide antitumor …

Exploring the cross-cancer effect of circulating proteins and discovering potential intervention targets for 13 site-specific cancers

J Sun, J Luo, F Jiang, J Zhao, S Zhou… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background The proteome is an important reservoir of potential therapeutic targets for
cancer. This study aimed to examine the causal associations between plasma proteins and …

Strategies to counteract MHC-I defects in tumors

MH Lampen, T van Hall - Current opinion in immunology, 2011 - Elsevier
Defects in MHC-I antigen presentation represent a common feature of cancer and allow
evasion from T cell recognition. Recent findings from immunotherapy in melanoma …

Downregulation of TAP1 and TAP2 in early stage breast cancer

AM Henle, A Nassar, D Puglisi-Knutson, B Youssef… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
TAP1-TAP2 heterodimeric complexes are recognized as the transporter associated with
antigen processing of major histocompatibility complex class I peptides for recognition by …

Specific cannabinoids revive adaptive immunity by reversing immune evasion mechanisms in metastatic tumours

S Dada, SLS Ellis, C Wood, LL Nohara… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Emerging cancers are sculpted by neo-Darwinian selection for superior growth and survival
but minimal immunogenicity; consequently, metastatic cancers often evolve common genetic …