Roles of natural killer cells in immunity to cancer, and applications to immunotherapy

NK Wolf, DU Kissiov, DH Raulet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Great strides have been made in recent years towards understanding the roles of natural
killer (NK) cells in immunity to tumours and viruses. NK cells are cytotoxic innate lymphoid …

Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Scaffolding protein functional sites using deep learning

J Wang, S Lisanza, D Juergens, D Tischer, JL Watson… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The binding and catalytic functions of proteins are generally mediated by a small number of
functional residues held in place by the overall protein structure. Here, we describe deep …

Design of protein-binding proteins from the target structure alone

L Cao, B Coventry, I Goreshnik, B Huang, W Sheffler… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The design of proteins that bind to a specific site on the surface of a target protein using no
information other than the three-dimensional structure of the target remains a challenge …

Engineering IL-2 for immunotherapy of autoimmunity and cancer

R Hernandez, J Põder, KM LaPorte… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Preclinical studies of the T cell growth factor activity of IL-2 resulted in this cytokine
becoming the first immunotherapy to be approved nearly 30 years ago by the US Food and …

De novo design of protein interactions with learned surface fingerprints

P Gainza, S Wehrle, A Van Hall-Beauvais, A Marchand… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Physical interactions between proteins are essential for most biological processes
governing life. However, the molecular determinants of such interactions have been …

Engineering protein-based therapeutics through structural and chemical design

SB Ebrahimi, D Samanta - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Protein-based therapeutics have led to new paradigms in disease treatment. Projected to be
half of the top ten selling drugs in 2023, proteins have emerged as rivaling and, in some …

PD-1-cis IL-2R agonism yields better effectors from stem-like CD8+ T cells

L Codarri Deak, V Nicolini, M Hashimoto, M Karagianni… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Expansion and differentiation of antigen-experienced PD-1+ TCF-1+ stem-like CD8+ T cells
into effector cells is critical for the success of immunotherapies based on PD-1 blockade …

Recent advances and discoveries in the mechanisms and functions of CAR T cells

RC Larson, MV Maus - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
This Review discusses the major advances and changes made over the past 3 years to our
understanding of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell efficacy and safety. Recently, the …

Improving de novo protein binder design with deep learning

NR Bennett, B Coventry, I Goreshnik, B Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recently it has become possible to de novo design high affinity protein binding proteins from
target structural information alone. There is, however, considerable room for improvement as …