NK cells for cancer immunotherapy

N Shimasaki, A Jain, D Campana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells can swiftly kill multiple adjacent cells if these show surface markers
associated with oncogenic transformation. This property, which is unique among immune …

The cancer–natural killer cell immunity cycle

ND Huntington, J Cursons, J Rautela - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy with checkpoint blockade induces rapid and durable immune control of
cancer in some patients and has driven a monumental shift in cancer treatment. Neoantigen …

PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma immunotherapy

Q Li, J Han, Y Yang, Y Chen - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has a high prevalence and mortality rate worldwide.
Sorafenib monotherapy has been the standard of first-line treatment for advanced HCC for a …

Understanding the tumor microenvironment for effective immunotherapy

H Sadeghi Rad, J Monkman… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in immunotherapy have led to durable and long‐term benefits in a subset of
patients across a number of solid tumor types. Understanding of the subsets of patients that …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming growth factor-β-regulated mTOR activity preserves cellular metabolism to maintain long-term T cell responses in chronic infection

SS Gabriel, C Tsui, D Chisanga, F Weber… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Antigen-specific CD8+ T cells in chronic viral infections and tumors functionally deteriorate,
a process known as exhaustion. Exhausted T cells are sustained by precursors of exhausted …

The emergence of natural killer cells as a major target in cancer immunotherapy

F Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, J Cursons… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Immune 'checkpoint'inhibitors can increase the activity of tumor-resident cytotoxic
lymphocytes and have revolutionized cancer treatment. Current therapies block inhibitory …

Context-dependent TGFβ family signalling in cell fate regulation

L Richardson, SG Wilcockson, L Guglielmi… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The transforming growth factor-β (TGFβ) family are a large group of evolutionarily conserved
cytokines whose signalling modulates cell fate decision-making across varying cellular …

Deficiency in coatomer complex I causes aberrant activation of STING signalling

A Steiner, K Hrovat-Schaale, I Prigione, CH Yu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Coatomer complex I (COPI) mediates retrograde vesicular trafficking from Golgi to the
endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and within Golgi compartments. Deficiency in subunit alpha …

[HTML][HTML] NK cell-based tumor immunotherapy

H Zhang, L Yang, T Wang, Z Li - Bioactive materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural killer (NK) cells display a unique inherent ability to identify and eliminate virus-
infected cells and tumor cells. They are particularly powerful for elimination of hematological …

Conventional NK cells and tissue-resident ILC1s join forces to control liver metastasis

L Ducimetière, G Lucchiari, G Litscher… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The liver is a major metastatic target organ, and little is known about the role of immunity in
controlling hepatic metastases. Here, we discovered that the concerted and nonredundant …