CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

The cancer–natural killer cell immunity cycle

ND Huntington, J Cursons, J Rautela - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy with checkpoint blockade induces rapid and durable immune control of
cancer in some patients and has driven a monumental shift in cancer treatment. Neoantigen …

Engineering immune-evasive allogeneic cellular immunotherapies

KE Martin, Q Hammer, K Perica, M Sadelain… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Allogeneic cellular immunotherapies hold a great promise for cancer treatment owing to
their potential cost-effectiveness, scalability and on-demand availability. However, immune …

[HTML][HTML] Role of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and IFN-γ receptor 1/2 (IFNγR1/2) in regulation of immunity, infection, and cancer development: IFN-γ-dependent or …

H Ding, G Wang, Z Yu, H Sun, L Wang - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
IFN-γ, a soluble cytokine being produced by T lymphocytes, macrophages, mucosal
epithelial cells, or natural killer cells, is able to bind to the IFN-γ receptor (IFNγR) and in turn …

CRISPR screens for functional interrogation of immunity

H Shi, JG Doench, H Chi - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-based technologies represent a major breakthrough in biomedical science as they
offer a powerful platform for unbiased screening and functional genomics in various fields …

IFNγ signaling integrity in colorectal cancer immunity and immunotherapy

W Du, TL Frankel, M Green, W Zou - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The majority of colorectal cancer patients are not responsive to immune checkpoint
blockade (ICB). The interferon gamma (IFNγ) signaling pathway drives spontaneous and …

Type I and II interferons in the anti-tumor immune response

SE Fenton, D Saleiro, LC Platanias - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Interferons are cytokines that play key roles in the activation of cellular
components of the immune response, such as dendritic cells, macrophages and T cells …

Diminished cell proliferation promotes natural killer cell adaptive-like phenotype by limiting FcεRIγ expression

A Shemesh, Y Su, DR Calabrese, D Chen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Human adaptive-like natural killer (NK) cells express low levels of FcεRIγ (FcRγ−/low) and
are reported to accumulate during COVID-19 infection; however, the mechanism underlying …

IGSF8 is an innate immune checkpoint and cancer immunotherapy target

Y Li, X Wu, C Sheng, H Liu, H Liu, Y Tang, C Liu… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Antigen presentation defects in tumors are prevalent mechanisms of adaptive immune
evasion and resistance to cancer immunotherapy, whereas how tumors evade innate …

The NK cell checkpoint NKG2A maintains expansion capacity of human NK cells

M Kaulfuss, J Mietz, A Fabri, J Vom Berg, C Münz… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Human natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic effector cells that are increasingly harnessed in
cancer immunotherapy. NKG2A/CD94 is an inhibitory receptor on NK cells that has …