T cell activation is a highly regulated process involving peptide–MHC engagement of the T cell receptor and positive costimulatory signals. Upon activation, coinhibitory'checkpoints' …
C Tsui, L Kretschmer, S Rapelius, SS Gabriel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells that respond to chronic viral infections or cancer are characterized by the expression of inhibitory receptors such as programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and by …
Clonal expansion of cells with somatically diversified receptors and their long-term maintenance as memory cells is a hallmark of adaptive immunity. Here, we studied …
M Sadelain, I Rivière, S Riddell - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Genetically engineered T cells are powerful new medicines, offering hope for curative responses in patients with cancer. Chimaeric antigen receptors (CARs) are a class of …
Memory CD8 T cells that circulate in the blood and are present in lymphoid organs are an essential component of long-lived T cell immunity. These memory CD8 T cells remain …
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is a highly personalized cancer therapy that involves administration to the cancer-bearing host of immune cells with direct anticancer activity. ACT …
D Sommermeyer, M Hudecek, PL Kosasih, T Gogishvili… - Leukemia, 2016 - nature.com
Adoptive T-cell therapy with gene-modified T cells expressing a tumor-reactive T-cell receptor or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) is a rapidly growing field of translational …
T memory stem (TSCM) cells are a rare subset of memory lymphocytes endowed with the stem cell–like ability to self-renew and the multipotent capacity to reconstitute the entire …
The mechanisms underlying human natural killer (NK) cell phenotypic and functional heterogeneity are unknown. Here, we describe the emergence of diverse subsets of human …