Controlling natural killer cell responses: integration of signals for activation and inhibition

EO Long, H Sik Kim, D Liu, ME Peterson… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Understanding how signals are integrated to control natural killer (NK) cell responsiveness
in the absence of antigen-specific receptors has been a challenge, but recent work has …

Expanding the therapeutic window for CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors: the knowns and unknowns of CAR T cell biology

K Watanabe, S Kuramitsu, AD Posey Jr… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A major obstacle for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in solid tumors is the
lack of truly tumor-specific target antigens, which translates to the targeting of tumor …

Chimeric antigen receptor T cells form nonclassical and potent immune synapses driving rapid cytotoxicity

AJ Davenport, RS Cross, KA Watson… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells are effective serial killers with a faster off-rate from
dying tumor cells than CAR-T cells binding target cells through their T cell receptor (TCR) …

Mechanically active integrins target lytic secretion at the immune synapse to facilitate cellular cytotoxicity

MS Wang, Y Hu, EE Sanchez, X **e, NH Roy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Cytotoxic lymphocytes fight pathogens and cancer by forming immune synapses with
infected or transformed target cells and then secreting cytotoxic perforin and granzyme into …

The neutrophil nucleus: an important influence on neutrophil migration and function

HR Manley, MC Keightley, GJ Lieschke - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neutrophil nuclear morphology has historically been used in haematology for neutrophil
identification and characterisation, but its exact role in neutrophil function has remained …

Lysosome-related organelles: unusual compartments become mainstream

MS Marks, HFG Heijnen, G Raposo - Current opinion in cell biology, 2013 - Elsevier
Lysosome-related organelles (LROs) comprise a group of cell type-specific subcellular
compartments with unique composition, morphology and structure that share some features …

Origins of the cytolytic synapse

M de la Roche, Y Asano, GM Griffiths - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) kill virus-infected and tumour cells with remarkable
specificity. Upon recognition, CTLs form a cytolytic immune synapse with their target cell …

Loss of ARPC1B impairs cytotoxic T lymphocyte maintenance and cytolytic activity

LO Randzavola, K Strege, M Juzans… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
CD8 cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) rely on rapid reorganization of the branched F-actin
network to drive the polarized secretion of lytic granules, initiating target cell death during …

Coordinating cytoskeleton and molecular traffic in T cell migration, activation, and effector functions

M Mastrogiovanni, M Juzans, A Alcover… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Dynamic localization of receptors and signaling molecules at the plasma membrane and
within intracellular vesicular compartments is crucial for T lymphocyte sensing …

The centrosome, a multitalented renaissance organelle

A Vertii, H Hehnly, S Doxsey - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2016 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The centrosome acts as a microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) from the G1 to G2 phases
of the cell cycle; it can mature into a spindle pole during mitosis and/or transition into a cilium …