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] Siglec receptors as new immune checkpoints in cancer

MA Stanczak, H Läubli - Molecular Aspects of Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors and cellular therapies
has improved the treatment and prognosis of many patients. Nevertheless, most cancers are …

Probing the binding specificities of human Siglecs by cell-based glycan arrays

C Büll, R Nason, L Sun, J Van Coillie… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Siglecs are a family of sialic acid–binding receptors expressed by cells of the immune
system and a few other cell types capable of modulating immune cell functions upon …

Single-cell functional genomics reveals determinants of sensitivity and resistance to natural killer cells in blood cancers

O Dufva, S Gandolfi, J Huuhtanen, O Dashevsky… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer cells can evade natural killer (NK) cell activity, thereby limiting anti-tumor immunity.
To reveal genetic determinants of susceptibility to NK cell activity, we examined interacting …

MYC-driven synthesis of Siglec ligands is a glycoimmune checkpoint

BAH Smith, A Deutzmann, KM Correa… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
The Siglecs (sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectins) are glycoimmune checkpoint
receptors that suppress immune cell activation upon engagement of cognate sialoglycan …

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 …

Targeting stromal cell sialylation reverses T cell-mediated immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment

H Egan, O Treacy, K Lynch, NA Leonard, G O'Malley… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Immunosuppressive tumor microenvironments (TMEs) reduce the effectiveness of immune
responses in cancer. Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), precursors to cancer-associated …

Genetics of glycosylation in mammalian development and disease

P Stanley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Glycosylation of proteins and lipids in mammals is essential for embryogenesis and the
development of all tissues. Analyses of glycosylation mutants in cultured mammalian cells …

Roles of glycosylation at the cancer cell surface: opportunities for large scale glycoproteomics

T Čaval, F Alisson-Silva, F Schwarz - Theranostics, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cell surface glycosylation has a variety of functions, and its dysregulation in cancer
contributes to impaired signaling, metastasis and the evasion of the immune responses …

Overcoming tumor resistance mechanisms in CAR-NK cell therapy

A Valeri, A García-Ortiz, E Castellano… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Despite the impressive results of autologous CAR-T cell therapy in refractory B
lymphoproliferative diseases, CAR-NK immunotherapy emerges as a safer, faster, and cost …