Harnessing IL-15 signaling to potentiate NK cell-mediated cancer immunotherapy

S Ma, MA Caligiuri, J Yu - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells, a crucial component of the innate immune system, have long been
of clinical interest for their antitumor properties. Almost every aspect of NK cell immunity is …

Allogeneic natural killer cell therapy

MM Berrien-Elliott, MT Jacobs, TA Fehniger - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Interest in adoptive cell therapy for treating cancer is exploding owing to early clinical
successes of autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T lymphocyte therapy. However …

Cytokines drive the formation of memory-like NK cell subsets via epigenetic rewiring and transcriptional regulation

JA Foltz, J Tran, P Wong, C Fan, E Schmidt, B Fisk… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Activation of natural killer (NK) cells with the cytokines interleukin-12 (IL-12), IL-15, and IL-18
induces their differentiation into memory-like (ML) NK cells; however, the underlying …

Control of nutrient uptake by IRF4 orchestrates innate immune memory

EK Santosa, H Kim, T Rückert, JB Le Luduec… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate cytotoxic lymphocytes with adaptive immune features,
including antigen specificity, clonal expansion and memory. As such, NK cells share many …

Costimulatory domains direct distinct fates of CAR-driven T-cell dysfunction

ME Selli, JH Landmann, M Terekhova… - Blood, The Journal …, 2023 - ashpublications.org
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) targeting CD19 have
demonstrated impressive activity against relapsed or refractory B-cell cancers yet fail to …

Overcoming tumor resistance mechanisms in CAR-NK cell therapy

A Valeri, A García-Ortiz, E Castellano… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Despite the impressive results of autologous CAR-T cell therapy in refractory B
lymphoproliferative diseases, CAR-NK immunotherapy emerges as a safer, faster, and cost …

Cytokine-induced memory-like NK cells: from the basics to clinical applications

I Terrén, A Orrantia, G Astarloa-Pando… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes with a key role in the defense against viral
infections and tumor cells. Although NK cells are classified as innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) …

Microphysiological model reveals the promise of memory-like natural killer cell immunotherapy for HIV± cancer

JM Ayuso, M Farooqui, M Virumbrales-Muñoz… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous studies are exploring the use of cell adoptive therapies to treat hematological
malignancies as well as solid tumors. However, there are numerous factors that dampen the …

Cardinal features of immune memory in innate lymphocytes

EK Santosa, JC Sun - Nature immunology, 2023 - nature.com
The ability of vertebrates to 'remember'previous infections had once been attributed
exclusively to adaptive immunity. We now appreciate that innate lymphocytes also possess …

Research progress of interleukin-15 in cancer immunotherapy

M Cai, X Huang, X Huang, D Ju, YZ Zhu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-15 (IL-15) is a cytokine that belongs to the interleukin-2 (IL-2) family and is
essential for the development, proliferation, and activation of immune cells, including natural …