ArticleCancers2023
TIGIT Expression on Activated NK Cells Correlates with Greater Anti-Tumor Activity but Promotes Functional Decline upon Lung Cancer Exposure: Implications for Adoptive Cell Therapy and TIGIT-Targeted Therapies.
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- Human stem cell-derived β cells expressing an optimized CD155 reduce cytotoxic immune cell function for application in type 1 diabetes.Science advances · 2025Article
- Novel tetrameric bispecific KK-LC-1×CD16A-armed memory-like NK cells enhance antitumor efficacy in gastric cancer.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Article
- Expression of the TIGIT axis and the CD39/CD73 purinergic pathway in bone metastasis-derived immune cells.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2025Article
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- Natural killer cells: the immune frontline against circulating tumor cells.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2025Review
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- Natural Killer Cell Immune Checkpoints and Their Therapeutic Targeting in Cancer Treatment.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Neutrophil-like Monocytes Increase in Patients with Colon Cancer and Induce Dysfunctional TIGIT+ NK Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Blockade of the TIGIT-CD155/CD112 axis enhances functionality of NK-92 but not cytokine-induced memory-like NK cells toward CD155-expressing acute myeloid leukemia.Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII · 2024Article
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Abstract
Treatments targeting TIGIT have gained a lot of attention due to strong preclinical and early clinical results, particularly with anti-PD-(L)1 therapeutics. However, this combination has failed to meet progression-free survival endpoints in phase III trials. Most of our understanding of TIGIT comes from studies of T cell function. Yet, this inhibitory receptor is often upregulated to the same, or higher, extent on NK cells in cancers. Studies in murine models have demonstrated that TIGIT inhibits NK cells and promotes exhaustion, with its effects on tumor control also being dependent on NK cells. However, there are limited studies assessing the role of TIGIT on the function of human NK cells (hNK), particularly in lung cancer. Most studies used NK cell lines or tested TIGIT blockade to reactivate exhausted cells obtained from cancer patients. For therapeutic advancement, a better understanding of TIGIT in the context of activated hNK cells is crucial, which is different than exhausted NK cells, and critical in the context of adoptive NK cell therapeutics that may be combined with TIGIT blockade. In this study, the effect of TIGIT blockade on the anti-tumor activities of human ex vivo-expanded NK cells was evaluated in vitro in the context of lung cancer. TIGIT expression was higher on activated and/or expanded NK cells compared to resting NK cells. More TIGIT
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