Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

CD8+ T cell states in human cancer: insights from single-cell analysis

AM Van der Leun, DS Thommen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The T cell infiltrates that are formed in human cancers are a modifier of natural disease
progression and also determine the probability of clinical response to cancer …

Determining cell type abundance and expression from bulk tissues with digital cytometry

AM Newman, CB Steen, CL Liu, AJ Gentles… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-sequencing has emerged as a powerful technique for characterizing
cellular heterogeneity, but it is currently impractical on large sample cohorts and cannot be …

Subsets of exhausted CD8+ T cells differentially mediate tumor control and respond to checkpoint blockade

BC Miller, DR Sen, R Al Abosy, K Bi, YV Virkud… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
T cell dysfunction is a hallmark of many cancers, but the basis for T cell dysfunction and the
mechanisms by which antibody blockade of the inhibitory receptor PD-1 (anti-PD-1) …

Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …

Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade

B Liu, Y Zhang, D Wang, X Hu, Z Zhang - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of
human cancers; however, it remains incompletely understood how tumor-reactive T cells …

Intratumoral Tcf1+ PD-1+ CD8+ T cells with stem-like properties promote tumor control in response to vaccination and checkpoint blockade immunotherapy

I Siddiqui, K Schaeuble, V Chennupati, SAF Marraco… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Checkpoint blockade mediates a proliferative response of tumor-infiltrating CD8+ T
lymphocytes (TILs). The origin of this response has remained elusive because chronic …

Metabolic competition in the tumor microenvironment is a driver of cancer progression

CH Chang, J Qiu, D O'Sullivan, MD Buck, T Noguchi… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
Failure of T cells to protect against cancer is thought to result from lack of antigen
recognition, chronic activation, and/or suppression by other cells. Using a mouse sarcoma …

Anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 therapies in cancer: mechanisms of action, efficacy, and limitations

JA Seidel, A Otsuka, K Kabashima - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma, a skin cancer associated with high mortality rates, is highly radio-and
chemotherapy resistant but can also be very immunogenic. These circumstances have led to …

Bystander CD8+ T cells are abundant and phenotypically distinct in human tumour infiltrates

Y Simoni, E Becht, M Fehlings, CY Loh, SL Koo… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Various forms of immunotherapy, such as checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, are proving
to be effective at restoring T cell-mediated immune responses that can lead to marked and …