Natural killer cells: from innate to adaptive features

AM Mujal, RB Delconte, JC Sun - Annual review of immunology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that provide critical host defense against
pathogens and cancer. Originally heralded for their early and rapid effector activity, NK cells …

The broad spectrum of human natural killer cell diversity

AG Freud, BL Mundy-Bosse, J Yu, MA Caligiuri - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells provide protection against infectious pathogens and cancer. For
decades it has been appreciated that two major NK cell subsets (CD56 bright and CD56 …

Clonal expansion and epigenetic inheritance of long-lasting NK cell memory

T Rückert, CA Lareau, MF Mashreghi, LS Ludwig… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
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 …

Natural killer cell immunotypes related to COVID-19 disease severity

C Maucourant, I Filipovic, A Ponzetta, S Aleman… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Understanding innate immune responses in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is
important to decipher mechanisms of host responses and interpret disease pathogenesis …

Killer Ig-like receptors (KIRs): their role in NK cell modulation and developments leading to their clinical exploitation

D Pende, M Falco, M Vitale, C Cantoni… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells contribute to the first line of defense against viruses and to the
control of tumor growth and metastasis spread. The discovery of HLA class I specific …

Peptide-specific recognition of human cytomegalovirus strains controls adaptive natural killer cells

Q Hammer, T Rückert, EM Borst, J Dunst… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that lack antigen-specific rearranged
receptors, a hallmark of adaptive lymphocytes. In some people infected with human …

Pan-cancer profiling of tumor-infiltrating natural killer cells through transcriptional reference map**

H Netskar, A Pfefferle, JP Goodridge, E Sohlberg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The functional diversity of natural killer (NK) cell repertoires stems from differentiation,
homeostatic, receptor–ligand interactions and adaptive-like responses to viral infections. In …

Natural killer cell memory in infection, inflammation and cancer

A Cerwenka, LL Lanier - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
Immunological memory can be defined as a quantitatively and qualitatively enhanced
immune response upon rechallenge. For natural killer (NK) cells, two main types of memory …

Human NK cells, their receptors and function

L Quatrini, M Della Chiesa, S Sivori… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
NK cells are cytotoxic components of innate lymphoid cells (ILC) that provide a first line of
defense against viral infections and contribute to control tumor growth and metastasis. Their …

Aging of the immune system: focus on inflammation and vaccination

M Pinti, V Appay, J Campisi, D Frasca… - European journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Major advances in preventing, delaying, or curing individual pathologies are responsible for
an increasingly long life span in the developed parts of our planet, and indeed reaching …