Natural killer cells in antitumour adoptive cell immunotherapy

TJ Laskowski, A Biederstädt, K Rezvani - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells comprise a unique population of innate lymphoid cells endowed with
intrinsic abilities to identify and eliminate virally infected cells and tumour cells. Possessing …

Natural killer cells in cancer biology and therapy

SY Wu, T Fu, YZ Jiang, ZM Shao - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
The tumor microenvironment is highly complex, and immune escape is currently considered
an important hallmark of cancer, largely contributing to tumor progression and metastasis …

Harnessing natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy: dispatching the first responders

NA Maskalenko, D Zhigarev… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells have crucial roles in the innate immunosurveillance of cancer and
viral infections. They are 'first responders' that can spontaneously recognize abnormal cells …

Memory-like NK cells armed with a neoepitope-specific CAR exhibit potent activity against NPM1 mutated acute myeloid leukemia

H Dong, JD Ham, G Hu, G **e… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains a therapeutic challenge, and a paucity of tumor-
specific targets has significantly hampered the development of effective immune-based …

Cytokine-induced memory-like natural killer cells exhibit enhanced responses against myeloid leukemia

R Romee, M Rosario, MM Berrien-Elliott… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are an emerging cellular immunotherapy for patients with acute
myeloid leukemia (AML); however, the best approach to maximize NK cell antileukemia …

Allogeneic natural killer cell therapy

MM Berrien-Elliott, MT Jacobs, TA Fehniger - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Interest in adoptive cell therapy for treating cancer is exploding owing to early clinical
successes of autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T lymphocyte therapy. However …

First-in-human phase 1 clinical study of the IL-15 superagonist complex ALT-803 to treat relapse after transplantation

R Romee, S Cooley, MM Berrien-Elliott… - Blood, The Journal …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
New therapies for patients with hematologic malignancies who relapse after allogeneic
hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT) are needed. Interleukin 15 (IL-15) is a cytokine …

NK cell-mediated antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity in cancer immunotherapy

W Wang, AK Erbe, JA Hank, ZS Morris… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells play a major role in cancer immunotherapies that involve tumor-
antigen targeting by monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). NK cells express a variety of activating …

Donor memory-like NK cells persist and induce remissions in pediatric patients with relapsed AML after transplant

JJ Bednarski, C Zimmerman… - Blood, The Journal …, 2022 - ashpublications.org
Pediatric and young adult (YA) patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who relapse
after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) have an extremely poor prognosis …

Phase 1 clinical trial using mbIL21 ex vivo–expanded donor-derived NK cells after haploidentical transplantation

SO Ciurea, JR Schafer, R Bassett… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Relapse has emerged as the most important cause of treatment failure after allogeneic
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). To test the hypothesis that natural killer …