T cell dysfunction in cancer

DS Thommen, TN Schumacher - Cancer cell, 2018 - cell.com
Therapeutic reinvigoration of tumor-specific T cells has greatly improved clinical outcome in
cancer. Nevertheless, many patients still do not achieve durable benefit. Recent evidence …

Overcoming challenges for CD3-bispecific antibody therapy in solid tumors

J Middelburg, K Kemper, P Engelberts, AF Labrijn… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary CD3-bispecific antibody therapy is a form of immunotherapy that enables
soldier cells of the immune system to recognize and kill tumor cells. This type of therapy is …

A transcriptionally and functionally distinct PD-1+ CD8+ T cell pool with predictive potential in non-small-cell lung cancer treated with PD-1 blockade

DS Thommen, VH Koelzer, P Herzig, A Roller… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Evidence from mouse chronic viral infection models suggests that CD8+ T cell subsets
characterized by distinct expression levels of the receptor PD-1 diverge in their state of …

Challenges and strategies for next-generation bispecific antibody-based antitumor therapeutics

H Li, P Er Saw, E Song - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) refer to a large family of molecules that recognize two different
epitopes or antigens. Although a series of challenges, especially immunogenicity and chain …

Cytotoxic CD8+ Lymphocytes in the Tumor Microenvironment

K Iwahori - Tumor Microenvironment: Hematopoietic Cells–Part A, 2020 - Springer
In the tumor microenvironment, CD8+ T cells play a major role in tumor immunity. CD8+ T
cells differentiate to cytotoxic T cells, traffic into the tumor microenvironment, and exhibit …

Rationale for combining bispecific T cell activating antibodies with checkpoint blockade for cancer therapy

S Kobold, S Pantelyushin, F Rataj, J Vom Berg - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
T cells have been established as core effectors for cancer therapy; this has moved the focus
of therapeutic endeavors to effectively enhance or restore T cell tumoricidal activity rather …

Function of human tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in early-stage non–small cell lung cancer

SM O'Brien, A Klampatsa, JC Thompson… - Cancer immunology …, 2019 - AACR
Cancer progression is marked by dysfunctional tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) with high
inhibitory receptor (IR) expression. Because IR blockade has led to clinical responses in …

Combination of T-cell bispecific antibodies with PD-L1 checkpoint inhibition elicits superior anti-tumor activity

J Sam, S Colombetti, T Fauti, A Roller, M Biehl… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
T-cell Bispecific Antibodies (TCBs) elicit anti-tumor responses by cross-linking T-cells to
tumor cells and mediate polyclonal T-cell expansion that is independent of T-cell receptor …

Bispecific antibodies as a development platform for new concepts and treatment strategies

F Yang, W Wen, W Qin - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
With the development of molecular cloning technology and the deep understanding of
antibody engineering, there are diverse bispecific antibody formats from which to choose to …

[HTML][HTML] Fibroblast activation protein-targeted-4-1BB ligand agonist amplifies effector functions of intratumoral T cells in human cancer

M Trüb, F Uhlenbrock, C Claus, P Herzig… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The costimulatory receptor 4-1BB (CD137, TNFRSF9) plays an important role in
sustaining effective T cell immune responses and is investigated as target for cancer …