Beyond immune checkpoint blockade: emerging immunological strategies

SP Kubli, T Berger, DV Araujo, LL Siu… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
The success of checkpoint inhibitors has accelerated the clinical implementation of a vast
mosaic of single agents and combination immunotherapies. However, the lack of clinical …

Challenges of combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors for hepatocellular carcinoma

AL Cheng, C Hsu, SL Chan, SP Choo, M Kudo - Journal of hepatology, 2020 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy targeting anti-programmed cell death-1 (anti-PD-
1) or its ligand (anti-PD-L1) is the backbone of numerous combination regimens aimed at …

HERB: a high-throughput experiment-and reference-guided database of traditional Chinese medicine

SS Fang, L Dong, L Liu, JC Guo, LH Zhao… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Pharmacotranscriptomics has become a powerful approach for evaluating the therapeutic
efficacy of drugs and discovering new drug targets. Recently, studies of traditional Chinese …

[HTML][HTML] A genome-scale gain-of-function CRISPR screen in CD8 T cells identifies proline metabolism as a means to enhance CAR-T therapy

L Ye, JJ Park, L Peng, Q Yang, RD Chow, MB Dong… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell-based immunotherapy for cancer and
immunological diseases has made great strides, but it still faces multiple hurdles. Finding …

Targeting memory T cell metabolism to improve immunity

M Corrado, EL Pearce - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Vaccination affords protection from disease by activating pathogen-specific immune cells
and facilitating the development of persistent immunologic memory toward the vaccine …

Immunotherapy and targeted therapy combinations in metastatic breast cancer

FJ Esteva, VM Hubbard-Lucey, J Tang… - The lancet oncology, 2019 - thelancet.com
Immunotherapy is emerging as a new treatment modality in breast cancer. After long-
standing use of endocrine therapy and targeted biological therapy, improved understanding …

Combination of metabolic intervention and T cell therapy enhances solid tumor immunotherapy

M Hao, S Hou, W Li, K Li, L Xue, Q Hu, L Zhu… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Treatment of solid tumors with T cell therapy has yielded limited therapeutic benefits to date.
Although T cell therapy in combination with proinflammatory cytokines or immune …

Mechanisms of macrophage plasticity in the tumor environment: manipulating activation state to improve outcomes

TD Ricketts, N Prieto-Dominguez, PS Gowda… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macrophages are a specialized class of innate immune cells with multifaceted roles in
modulation of the inflammatory response, homeostasis, and wound healing. While …

Massively parallel knock-in engineering of human T cells

X Dai, JJ Park, Y Du, Z Na, SZ Lam, RD Chow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The efficiency of targeted knock-in for cell therapeutic applications is generally low, and the
scale is limited. In this study, we developed CLASH, a system that enables high-efficiency …

[HTML][HTML] Interpretable systems biomarkers predict response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors

Ó Lapuente-Santana, M van Genderen, PAJ Hilbers… - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer cells can leverage several cell-intrinsic and-extrinsic mechanisms to escape
immune system recognition. The inherent complexity of the tumor microenvironment, with its …