CD8 T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infection and cancer

LM McLane, MS Abdel-Hakeem… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Exhausted CD8 T (Tex) cells are a distinct cell lineage that arise during chronic infections
and cancers in animal models and humans. Tex cells are characterized by progressive loss …

Targeting immunosuppressive adenosine in cancer

D Vijayan, A Young, MWL Teng, MJ Smyth - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the success of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1), anti-PD1 ligand 1
(PDL1) and anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) therapies in advanced cancer, a …

Pan-cancer single-cell landscape of tumor-infiltrating T cells

L Zheng, S Qin, W Si, A Wang, B **ng, R Gao, X Ren… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cancer immunotherapies that target tumor-specific T cells have benefited
many cancer patients, but the clinical efficacy varies greatly among different cancer types …

Deep immune profiling of COVID-19 patients reveals distinct immunotypes with therapeutic implications

D Mathew, JR Giles, AE Baxter, DA Oldridge… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Many patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, present with …

[HTML][HTML] Defining T cell states associated with response to checkpoint immunotherapy in melanoma

M Sade-Feldman, K Yizhak, SL Bjorgaard, JP Ray… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Treatment of cancer has been revolutionized by immune checkpoint blockade therapies.
Despite the high rate of response in advanced melanoma, the majority of patients succumb …

Hypoxia drives CD39-dependent suppressor function in exhausted T cells to limit antitumor immunity

PDA Vignali, K DePeaux, MLJ Watson, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical for elimination of cancer cells. Factors within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) can drive these cells to a hypofunctional state known as …

LRRC15+ myofibroblasts dictate the stromal setpoint to suppress tumour immunity

AT Krishnamurty, JA Shyer, M Thai, V Gandham… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent single-cell studies of cancer in both mice and humans have identified the
emergence of a myofibroblast population specifically marked by the highly restricted leucine …

T-cell invigoration to tumour burden ratio associated with anti-PD-1 response

AC Huang, MA Postow, RJ Orlowski, R Mick… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Despite the success of monotherapies based on blockade of programmed cell death 1 (PD-
1) in human melanoma, most patients do not experience durable clinical benefit. Pre …

Bystander CD8+ T cells are abundant and phenotypically distinct in human tumour infiltrates

Y Simoni, E Becht, M Fehlings, CY Loh, SL Koo… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Various forms of immunotherapy, such as checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, are proving
to be effective at restoring T cell-mediated immune responses that can lead to marked and …

A transcriptionally and functionally distinct PD-1+ CD8+ T cell pool with predictive potential in non-small-cell lung cancer treated with PD-1 blockade

DS Thommen, VH Koelzer, P Herzig, A Roller… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Evidence from mouse chronic viral infection models suggests that CD8+ T cell subsets
characterized by distinct expression levels of the receptor PD-1 diverge in their state of …