Leukemia escapes immunity by imposing a Type-1 regulatory program on neoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells.
Hrishi Venkatesh, Enoc Granados Centeno, Qianyun Luo, Miriam Arroyo, Lynn M. Heltemes-Harris, Todd Philip Knutson, Yinjie Qiu, Allison Haaning, Beau R. Webber, Veronika Bachanová, Michael A. Farrar, Sean I. Tracy
This paper shows leukemia induces neoantigen-specific CD4+ T cells to become regulatory (Tr1) cells, which suppress cytotoxic T cells and promote relapse, and repolarizing these cells to Th1 states eradicates residual disease.
Blood · Sep 4, 2025Peer-reviewedCancer Biology