TIGIT as an emerging immune checkpoint

H Harjunpää, C Guillerey - Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
T cell immunoglobulin and ITIM domain (TIGIT) is an inhibitory receptor expressed on
lymphocytes that was recently propelled under the spotlight as a major emerging target in …

Natural killer cells and other innate lymphoid cells in cancer

L Chiossone, PY Dumas, M Vienne… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Immuno-oncology is an emerging field that has revolutionized cancer treatment. Most
immunomodulatory strategies focus on enhancing T cell responses, but there has been a …

Human NK cells: surface receptors, inhibitory checkpoints, and translational applications

S Sivori, P Vacca, G Del Zotto, E Munari… - Cellular & molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
NK cells play important roles in innate defenses against viruses and in the control of tumor
growth and metastasis. The regulation/induction of NK cell function is mediated by an array …

Phase I trial of autologous CAR T cells targeting NKG2D ligands in patients with AML/MDS and multiple myeloma

SH Baumeister, J Murad, L Werner, H Daley… - Cancer immunology …, 2019 - AACR
NKG2D ligands are widely expressed in solid and hematologic malignancies but absent or
poorly expressed on healthy tissues. We conducted a phase I dose-escalation study to …

Natural killer cell-mediated immunosurveillance of human cancer

KJ Malmberg, M Carlsten, A Björklund, E Sohlberg… - Seminars in …, 2017 - Elsevier
The contribution of natural killer (NK) cells to immunosurveillance of human cancer remains
debatable. Here, we discuss advances in several areas of human NK cell research, many of …

DNAM-1 and the TIGIT/PVRIG/TACTILE axis: novel immune checkpoints for natural killer cell-based cancer immunotherapy

B Sanchez-Correa, I Valhondo, F Hassouneh… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune response characterized by
their role in the destruction of tumor cells. Activation of NK cells depend on a fine balance …

Human natural killer cells

MA Caligiuri - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Natural killer (NK) cells were discovered more than 30 years ago. NK cells are large
granular lymphocytes that belong to the innate immune system because unlike T or B …

The interaction of TIGIT with PVR and PVRL2 inhibits human NK cell cytotoxicity

N Stanietsky, H Simic, J Arapovic… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
NK cell cytotoxicity is controlled by numerous NK inhibitory and activating receptors. Most of
the inhibitory receptors bind MHC class I proteins and are expressed in a variegated …

Mesenchymal stem cells inhibit natural killer–cell proliferation, cytotoxicity, and cytokine production: role of indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase and prostaglandin E2

GM Spaggiari, A Capobianco… - Blood, The Journal …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Recently, a number of clinical trials used either mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) or natural
killer (NK) cells in an attempt to improve the effectiveness of hematopoietic stem cell …

Overcoming tumor resistance mechanisms in CAR-NK cell therapy

A Valeri, A García-Ortiz, E Castellano… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Despite the impressive results of autologous CAR-T cell therapy in refractory B
lymphoproliferative diseases, CAR-NK immunotherapy emerges as a safer, faster, and cost …