Human Immunology News Volume 12.04 | Feb 06 2024

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    2024-02-06 | HIN 12.04


    Human Immunology News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 12.04 – 6 February, 2024
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    VEXAS Syndrome Is Characterized by Inflammasome Activation and Monocyte Dysregulation

    Investigators studied a unique prospective cohort of vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic (VEXAS) patients. They showed that monocytes from VEXAS were quantitatively and qualitatively impaired and displayed features of exhaustion with aberrant expression of chemokine receptors.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Durvalumab and Guadecitabine in Advanced Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma: Results from the Phase Ib/II Study BTCRC-GU16-043

    Patients received guadecitabine with durvalumab. The study enrolled 57 patients, six in Phase Ib with safety being the primary objective and 51 in Phase II, comprising 2 cohorts.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Neuroinflammatory Disease Signatures in SPG11-Related Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia Patients

    The authors performed a comprehensive immunological characterization of SPG11–hereditary spastic paraplegia, including examination of three human postmortem brain donations, immunophenotyping of patients’ peripheral blood cells and patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia-like cells.
    [Acta Neuropathologica]

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    The Immune Suppressor IGSF1 as a Potential Target for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Scientists identified a novel immunotherapeutic target, immunoglobulin superfamily member 1 (IGSF1), by proteome analysis, a membrane glycoprotein proposed to regulate thyroid function.
    [Cancer Immunology Research]

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    CD57-Positive CD8+ T Cells Define the Response to Anti-Programmed Cell Death Protein-1 Immunotherapy in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Single-cell mass cytometry was utilized to analyze immune cell subsets in peripheral blood mononuclear cells obtained from non-small cell lung cancer patients before and 12 weeks after single-agent immunotherapy.
    [npj Precision Oncology]

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    Autologous Anti-GD2 CAR T Cells Efficiently Target Primary Human Glioblastoma

    The authors generated pre-clinical investigations of autologous anti-GD2 CAR T cells tested against 2D and 3D models of glioblastoma primary cells.
    [npj Precision Oncology]

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    Malignant A-to-I RNA Editing by ADAR1 Drives T Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Relapse via Attenuating dsRNA Sensing

    Researchers showed that the RNA-editing enzyme ADAR1 was a crucial stemness factor that promoted leukemia-initiating cell self-renewal by attenuating aberrant double-stranded RNA sensing.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Distribution of Multi-Level B Cell Subsets in Thymoma and Thymoma-Associated Myasthenia Gravis

    B-cell subsets in peripheral blood and tumor microenvironment were evaluated to determine myasthenia gravis (MG) severity in patients with thymoma-associated MG (TMG) and the distribution of B cells in type B TMG.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Outlining the Skin-Homing and Circulating CLA+NK Cells in Patients with Severe Atopic Dermatitis

    Scientists selected 44 atopic dermatitis (AD) patients and 27 non-AD volunteers for the study. The results showed increased frequencies of both CLA+CD56bright and CLA+CD56dim NK cell populations in the peripheral blood, mainly in severe AD patients.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    REVIEWS

    Roles of Exosomes in Immunotherapy for Solid Cancers

    The authors review the composition and sources of exosomes in the solid cancer immune microenvironment and further elaborate on the potential mechanisms and pathways by which exosomes influence immunotherapy for solid cancers.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Acepodia Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug Application for ACE2016, a First-in-Class Allogeneic Anti-EGFR Cell Therapy

    Acepodia announced that the US FDA has cleared the company’s investigational new drug application for ACE2016, an allogeneic gamma delta 2 (γδ2) T cell therapy for the treatment of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-expressing malignancies in patients with solid tumors.
    [Acepodia Inc. (PR Newswire)]

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    Grant Awarded to Develop Gastric Cancer Vaccine to Prevent Relapse after Surgery

    The DeGregorio Family Foundation has awarded $75,000 to David E. Avigan, MD, for the development of a personalized dendritic cell/organoid-based vaccine for the treatment of gastric cancer.
    [DeGregorio Family Foundation (PR Newswire)]

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