Exploiting innate immunity for cancer immunotherapy

M Yi, T Li, M Niu, Q Mei, B Zhao, Q Chu, Z Dai, K Wu - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Immunotherapies have revolutionized the treatment paradigms of various types of cancers.
However, most of these immunomodulatory strategies focus on harnessing adaptive …

Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Anti-GD2 CAR-NKT cells in relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma: updated phase 1 trial interim results

A Heczey, X Xu, AN Courtney, G Tian, GA Barragan… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Vα24-invariant natural killer T cells (NKTs) have anti-tumor properties that can be enhanced
by chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Here we report updated interim results from the first-in …

CAR-NK cells: A promising cellular immunotherapy for cancer

G **e, H Dong, Y Liang, JD Ham, R Rizwan, J Chen - EBioMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
Natural Killer (NK) cells and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells are two types of immune cells that can
kill target cells through similar cytotoxic mechanisms. With the remarkable success of …

Engineering CAR-T cells for next-generation cancer therapy

M Hong, JD Clubb, YY Chen - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with tumor specificity have
shown remarkable success in treating patients with hematologic malignancies and …

[HTML][HTML] The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

Generation of allogeneic CAR-NKT cells from hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using a clinically guided culture method

YR Li, Y Zhou, J Yu, YJ Kim, M Li, D Lee, K Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy with autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells faces
challenges in manufacturing and patient selection that could be avoided by using 'off-the …

Advances in universal CAR-T cell therapy

H Lin, J Cheng, W Mu, J Zhou, L Zhu - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy achieved extraordinary achievements
results in antitumor treatments, especially against hematological malignancies, where it …

Off-the-shelf Vδ1 gamma delta T cells engineered with glypican-3 (GPC-3)-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and soluble IL-15 display robust antitumor efficacy …

A Makkouk, XC Yang, T Barca, A Lucas… - Journal for …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Glypican-3 (GPC-3) is an oncofetal protein that is highly expressed in various
solid tumors, but rarely expressed in healthy adult tissues and represents a rational target of …

Disialoganglioside GD2 expression in solid tumors and role as a target for cancer therapy

B Nazha, C Inal, TK Owonikoko - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Gangliosides are carbohydrate-containing sphingolipids that are widely expressed in
normal tissues, making most subtypes unsuitable as targets for cancer therapy. However …