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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2025

Disrupting the balance between activating and inhibitory receptors of γδT cells for effective cancer immunotherapy.

Dennis X Beringer, Trudy Straetemans, Susana Minguet, Caterina Riillo, Lydia Lynch, Zsolt Sebestyen, Jürgen Kuball

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. γδ T cells in colorectal and liver cancer.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2026
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  2. Viscoelastic Niches Shape γδ T-Cell Phenotype and Effector Function.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  9. Autologous profiling reveals inter-patient heterogeneity in Vδ2Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025
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  10. Posttransplant cells for the win? DLI and adoptive cell therapy to eradicate MRD.Hematology. American Society of Hematology. Education Program · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Dennis X BeringerCenter for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5986-1134
Trudy StraetemansCenter for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Susana MinguetSignalling Research Centres BIOSS and CIBSS, Freiburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8211-5538
Caterina RiilloCenter for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Lydia LynchDepartment of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Zsolt SebestyenCenter for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6184-7676
Jürgen KuballCenter for Translational Immunology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. J.H.E.Kuball@umcutrecht.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3914-7806

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

γδT cell biology in cancer has been studied for decades but remains poorly understood mainly due to species differences in preclinical models and a lack of appropriate analytical tools. This lack of knowledge has hindered the clinical translation of promising therapeutic concepts. In recent years, advanced single-cell analysis techniques and comprehensive protein-protein interaction studies have transformed our understanding of γδT cells and their receptors. This insight has revealed new opportunities and challenges in harnessing γδT cells for therapeutic purposes. In this context, we will discuss the latest findings in γδT cell biology, with a special focus on their role in cancer immune therapies. We will explore strategies to overcome tolerance and shift the balance of γδT cells and their receptors towards antitumour efficacy, which has the potential to successfully translate into various engineering approaches in cancer immunotherapy.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-deltaAnimalsHumansReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta

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