CAR immune cells: design principles, resistance and the next generation

L Labanieh, CL Mackall - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The remarkable clinical activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies in B cell and
plasma cell malignancies has validated the use of this therapeutic class for liquid cancers …

Recent advances in targeting the “undruggable” proteins: from drug discovery to clinical trials

X **e, T Yu, X Li, N Zhang, LJ Foster, C Peng… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Undruggable proteins are a class of proteins that are often characterized by large, complex
structures or functions that are difficult to interfere with using conventional drug design …

From bench to bedside: the history and progress of CAR T cell therapy

A Mitra, A Barua, L Huang, S Ganguly, Q Feng… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy represents a major breakthrough in cancer
care since the approval of tisagenlecleucel by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017 for …

Immunotherapy: reshape the tumor immune microenvironment

B Lv, Y Wang, D Ma, W Cheng, J Liu, T Yong… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) include tumor cells, immune cells, cytokines, etc.
The interactions between these components, which are divided into anti-tumor and pro …

Challenges and new technologies in adoptive cell therapy

P Zhang, G Zhang, X Wan - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Adoptive cell therapies (ACTs) have existed for decades. From the initial infusion of tumor-
infiltrating lymphocytes to the subsequent specific enhanced T cell receptor (TCR)-T and …

The history and advances in cancer immunotherapy: understanding the characteristics of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and their therapeutic implications

Y Zhang, Z Zhang - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and rejuvenated the field of tumor
immunology. Several types of immunotherapy, including adoptive cell transfer (ACT) and …

Intratumoral immune triads are required for immunotherapy-mediated elimination of solid tumors

G Espinosa-Carrasco, E Chiu, A Scrivo, P Zumbo… - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Tumor-specific CD8+ T cells are frequently dysfunctional and unable to halt tumor growth.
We investigated whether tumor-specific CD4+ T cells can be enlisted to overcome CD8+ T …

RAS-targeted therapies: is the undruggable drugged?

AR Moore, SC Rosenberg, F McCormick… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract RAS (KRAS, NRAS and HRAS) is the most frequently mutated gene family in
cancers, and, consequently, investigators have sought an effective RAS inhibitor for more …

'Off-the-shelf'allogeneic CAR T cells: development and challenges

S Depil, P Duchateau, SA Grupp, G Mufti… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have changed the therapeutic
landscape in haematological malignancies. Nevertheless, the use of allogeneic CAR T cells …

Tumour-intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade

A Kalbasi, A Ribas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 'Immune checkpoint blockade'for cancer describes the use of therapeutic antibodies
that disrupt negative immune regulatory checkpoints and unleash pre-existing antitumour …