The role of the phosphorus atom in drug design

JB Rodriguez, C Gallo‐Rodriguez - ChemMedChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Although the phosphorus atom is found in a variety of oxidation states, most of the
phosphorus‐containing molecules of pharmacological importance possess phosphorus in …

Human gamma delta T cells: evolution and ligand recognition

EJ Adams, S Gu, AM Luoma - Cellular immunology, 2015 - Elsevier
The γδ T cell lineage in humans remains much of an enigma due to the low number of
defined antigens, the non-canonical ways in which these cells respond to their environment …

Phosphoantigens glue butyrophilin 3A1 and 2A1 to activate Vγ9Vδ2 T cells

L Yuan, X Ma, Y Yang, Y Qu, X Li, X Zhu, W Ma, J Duan… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In both cancer and infections, diseased cells are presented to human Vγ9Vδ2 T cells
through an 'inside out'signalling process whereby structurally diverse phosphoantigen (pAg) …

γδ T cells suppress Plasmodium falciparum blood-stage infection by direct killing and phagocytosis

C Junqueira, RB Polidoro, G Castro, S Absalon… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Activated Vγ9Vδ2 (γδ2) T lymphocytes that sense parasite-produced phosphoantigens are
expanded in Plasmodium falciparum–infected patients. Although previous studies …

Improving the efficiency of Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell immunotherapy in cancer

T Hoeres, M Smetak, D Pretscher… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Increasing immunological knowledge and advances in techniques lay the ground for more
efficient and broader application of immunotherapies. gamma delta (γδ) T-cells possess …

Butyrophilin-like 3 directly binds a human Vγ4+ T cell receptor using a modality distinct from clonally-restricted antigen

CR Willcox, P Vantourout, M Salim, I Zlatareva… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Butyrophilin (BTN) and butyrophilin-like (BTNL/Btnl) heteromers are major regulators of
human and mouse γδ T cell subsets, but considerable contention surrounds whether they …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomedicine-based drug delivery towards tumor biological and immunological microenvironment

J Li, DJ Burgess - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
The complex tumor microenvironment is a most important factor in cancer development. The
biological microenvironment is composed of a variety of barriers including the extracellular …

Phosphoantigen sensing combines TCR-dependent recognition of the BTN3A IgV domain and germline interaction with BTN2A1

CR Willcox, M Salim, CR Begley, MM Karunakaran… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Vγ9Vδ2 T cells play critical roles in microbial immunity by detecting target cells
exposed to pathogen-derived phosphoantigens (P-Ags). Target cell expression of BTN3A1 …

A structural change in butyrophilin upon phosphoantigen binding underlies phosphoantigen-mediated Vγ9Vδ2 T cell activation

Y Yang, L Li, L Yuan, X Zhou, J Duan, H **ao, N Cai… - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Human Vγ9Vδ2 T cells respond to microbial infections and malignancy by sensing
diphosphate-containing metabolites called phosphoantigens, which bind to the intracellular …

MAIT and Vδ2 unconventional T cells are supported by a diverse intestinal microbiome and correlate with favorable patient outcome after allogeneic HCT

H Andrlová, O Miltiadous, AI Kousa, A Dai… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Microbial diversity is associated with improved outcomes in recipients of allogeneic
hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT), but the mechanism underlying this …