Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In …

PRC2 is high maintenance

JR Yu, CH Lee, O Oksuz, JM Stafford… - Genes & …, 2019 - genesdev.cshlp.org
As the process that silences gene expression ensues during development, the stage is set
for the activity of Polycomb-repressive complex 2 (PRC2) to maintain these repressed gene …

Polymer-stabilized Cas9 nanoparticles and modified repair templates increase genome editing efficiency

DN Nguyen, TL Roth, PJ Li, PA Chen, R Apathy… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Versatile and precise genome modifications are needed to create a wider range of adoptive
cellular therapies,,,–. Here we report two improvements that increase the efficiency of …

[HTML][HTML] EZH1 repression generates mature iPSC-derived CAR T cells with enhanced antitumor activity

R **g, I Scarfo, MA Najia, EL da Rocha, A Han… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a potentially unlimited resource for
cell therapies, but the derivation of mature cell types remains challenging. The histone …

Lineage-tracing hematopoietic stem cell origins in vivo to efficiently make human HLF+ HOXA+ hematopoietic progenitors from pluripotent stem cells

JL Fowler, SL Zheng, A Nguyen, A Chen, X **ong… - Developmental Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The developmental origin of blood-forming hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is a
longstanding question. Here, our non-invasive genetic lineage tracing in mouse embryos …

DL4-μbeads induce T cell lineage differentiation from stem cells in a stromal cell-free system

AC Trotman-Grant, M Mohtashami… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
T cells are pivotal effectors of the immune system and can be harnessed as therapeutics for
regenerative medicine and cancer immunotherapy. An unmet challenge in the field is the …

The role of EZH1 and EZH2 in development and cancer

SH Lee, Y Li, H Kim, S Eum, K Park, CH Lee - BMB reports, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) exhibits key roles in mammalian development
through its temporospatial repression of gene expression. EZH1 or EZH2 is the catalytic …

Continuous human iPSC-macrophage mass production by suspension culture in stirred tank bioreactors

M Ackermann, A Rafiei Hashtchin, F Manstein… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Macrophages derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have the potential
to enable the development of cell-based therapies for numerous disease conditions. We …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulators as the gatekeepers of hematopoiesis

CP Rodrigues, M Shvedunova, A Akhtar - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Hematopoiesis is the process by which both fetal and adult organisms derive the full
repertoire of blood cells from a single multipotent progenitor cell type, the hematopoietic …

Distinct stimulatory mechanisms regulate the catalytic activity of polycomb repressive complex 2

CH Lee, M Holder, D Grau, R Saldaña-Meyer, JR Yu… - Molecular cell, 2018 - cell.com
The maintenance of gene expression patterns during metazoan development is achieved, in
part, by the actions of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). PRC2 catalyzes mono-, di …