Trial reportNature communications2020
Bempegaldesleukin selectively depletes intratumoral Tregs and potentiates T cell-mediated cancer therapy.
Trial report in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.
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100 citing papers in PubMed, 166 citations in OpenAlex.
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- A multi-omics-based investigation of the prognostic and immunological impact of necroptosis-related mRNA in patients with cervical squamous carcinoma and adenocarcinoma.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Bempegaldesleukin plus nivolumab in first-line renal cell carcinoma: results from the PIVOT-02 study.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2022Trial
- Bempegaldesleukin Plus Nivolumab in First-Line Metastatic Melanoma.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2021Trial
- Immunopeptidomics-Guided Warehouse Design for Peptide-Based Immunotherapy in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Trial
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- Timosaponin AIII enhances CAR-T cell potency and prevents relapse through impairing CAR-Tregs.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Regulatory T cells in homeostasis and disease: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Review
- Role of tertiary lymphoid structures in the tumour microenvironment and immunotherapy response of renal cell carcinoma.Clinical and translational medicine · 2025Review
- Click-to-Release for Controlled Immune Cell Activation: Tumor-Targeted Unmasking of an IL12 Prodrug.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Coupling IL-2 with IL-10 to mitigate toxicity and enhance antitumor immunity.Cell reports. Medicine · 2025Article
- Adjusting the scope of natural killer cells in cancer therapy.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2025Review
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Abstract
High dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) is active against metastatic melanoma and renal cell carcinoma, but treatment-associated toxicity and expansion of suppressive regulatory T cells (Tregs) limit its use in patients with cancer. Bempegaldesleukin (NKTR-214) is an engineered IL-2 cytokine prodrug that provides sustained activation of the IL-2 pathway with a bias to the IL-2 receptor CD122 (IL-2Rβ). Here we assess the therapeutic impact and mechanism of action of NKTR-214 in combination with anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4 checkpoint blockade therapy or peptide-based vaccination in mice. NKTR-214 shows superior anti-tumor activity over native IL-2 and systemically expands anti-tumor CD8
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