NK gene donor selection in AML

Donor selection for AML: do the KIR.

Repression of GSK3 restores NK cell cytotoxicity in AML patients

Natural killer cells from acute myeloid leukaemia patients (AML-NK) show a dramatic impairment in cytotoxic activity. The exact reasons for this dysfunction are not fully understood. Here we show that the glycogen synthase kinase beta (GSK3β) expression is elevated in AML-NK cells. Interestingly, GSK3 overexpression in normal NK cells impairs their ability to kill AML cells, while genetic or ph...

Advances in clinical NK cell studies: Donor selection, manufacturing and quality control.

Natural killer (NK) cells are increasingly used in clinical studies in order to treat patients with various malignancies. The following review summarizes platform lectures and 2013-2015 consortium meetings on manufacturing and clinical use of NK cells in Europe and United States. A broad overview of recent pre-clinical and clinical results in NK cell therapies is provided based on unstimulated,...

Can Treg elimination enhance NK cell therapy for AML?

In this issue of Blood, Bachanova et al describe how modulation of the inhibitory tumor environment may enhance natural killer (NK) cell clinical activity and produce encouraging results in the treatment of refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). NK cells are highly proliferative, early responders of the innate immune response that in preclinical models can exert potent activity against a wide...

Selection of Donor and Recipients