Methods and FSP27 compositions for treating and/or preventing metabolic disease and conditions associated insulin resistance, obesity, inflammation and dyslipidemia are described.

Provided herein are IL-21 prodrugs and methods of making and using thereof for stimulating the immune system, or treating cancer or an infectious disease.

The present invention relates to, inter alia, compositions and methods, including engineered T cells that express chimeric antigen receptors and heterologous chimeric proteins that find use in the treatment of cancer.

The invention provides peptides capable of inhibiting the individual activity and inter-pathway communication of BNIP3, BAX and mitochondria. The peptides can be used in methods of treating a disease or condition in a subject in which it is desirable to prevent cell damage and cell death.

The disclosure provides inducible caspase polypeptides, compositions comprising inducible caspase polypeptides and sequences encoding the same, cells modified to express the polypeptides and compositions of the disclosure, as well as methods of making and methods of using same for adoptive cell therapy.

Disclosed are protein switches that can sequester bioactive peptides and/or binding domains, holding them in an inactive (“off”) state, until combined with a second designed polypeptide called the key, which induces a conformational change that activates (“on”) the bioactive peptide or binding domain only when the protein switch components are co/localized when bound to their targets, components of such protein switches, and their use.

The invention relates to methods of treating cancer, particular cancers which have developed a resistance to chemotherapeutics. Particularly, the invention relates to a method of treating cancer in an individual who has not responded, or no longer responds, to chemotherapy, the method comprising providing an individual who has not responded, or no longer responds, to a chemotherapeutic agent; providing in the individual a whole antibody or a fragment thereof including a variable domain for binding to a P2X7 receptor that is expressed by the individual; wherein the P2X7 receptor has an impaired response to ATP such that it is unable to form an apoptotic pore under normal physiological conditions, thereby treating cancer in the individual.

The present invention is directed to human multispecific antibodies that bind to the cell-surface receptor, PD-1 (programmed death 1). The antibodies can be used to treat cancer and chronic viral infections.

Provided herein are polypeptides containing stabilized BH4 domains of BCL-2 family proteins that are capable of binding and/or inactivating and/or modulating BAX protein, and/or its close homologues BAK and BOK, and/or other physiological BH4 targets. Also provided are compositions containing these polypeptides and methods of treating cytotoxic diseases that include administering to a subject one of the polypeptides.

Provided is a chimeric antigen receptor-modified immune effector cell carrying a procedural death ligand 1 (PD-L1) blocking agent. Also provided is a method for secreting and expressing a PD-L1 blocking agent using the immune effector cell as a carrier to improve the anti-tumour effect of the chimeric antigen receptor-modified immune effector cell.