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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

A TGF-βR/IL-2R immunomodulatory fusion protein transforms immunosuppression into T cell activation to enhance adoptive T cell therapy.

Yapeng Su, Ashley Thelen, Lena V Wirth, Cody M Jenkins, Sam R Mak, Daniel G Chen, Raphael Gottardo, Philip D Greenberg

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yapeng Su *Program in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.ORCID 0000-0002-6305-8467
Ashley Thelen *Program in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.
Lena V WirthProgram in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.
Cody M JenkinsProgram in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.
Sam R MakProgram in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.
Daniel G ChenProgram in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.
Raphael GottardoDivision of Clinical Research and Innovation, Biomedical Data Science Centre, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1005, Switzerland.
Philip D GreenbergProgram in Immunology, Translational Science and Therapeutics Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA 98109.ORCID 0000-0003-3812-647X

Funding

VIRUS-MEDIATED MYELOSUPPRESSIONP01CA018029 · NCI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI STEPHANIE J LEE · 1985 to 2026
$128.4M
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (DRCRF) DRQ-13-22Hartwell Foundation (HARTWELL) Hartwell Innovation AwardNCI NIH HHS P01 CA018029NIH HHS CA015704NIH HHS CA18029NIH HHS CA225517
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adoptive T cell therapies have shown limited efficacy against solid tumors due in part to immunosuppressive cues such as from TGF-β and insufficient survival/proliferative signals within the tumor microenvironment (TME). We engineered chimeric immunomodulatory fusion proteins (IFPs) that convert immunosuppressive TGF-β signals into proliferative/survival Interleukin 2 (IL-2) signals in T cells. Chimeric TGF-βR/IL-2R IFPs were constructed by fusing extracellular domains of the TGF-β receptor chains with intracellular domains of IL-2Rβ and IL-2Rγ to enable TGF-β binding to trigger STAT5 phosphorylation and activate the downstream IL-2 pathway. In human primary CD8

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveLymphocyte ActivationReceptors, Interleukin-2Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor betaRecombinant Fusion ProteinsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHumansImmunosuppression TherapyInterleukin-2PhosphorylationSignal TransductionSTAT5 Transcription FactorT-LymphocytesTransforming Growth Factor betaTumor MicroenvironmentInterleukin-2Receptors, Interleukin-2Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor betaRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSTAT5 Transcription FactorTransforming Growth Factor betaadoptive T cell therapycancer immunotherapyT cell engineeringT cell receptor (TCR) T cell therapy

Identifiers

PMID40986340
PMCPMC12501114

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