Cancer therapy with TCR-engineered T cells: current strategies, challenges, and prospects

P Shafer, LM Kelly, V Hoyos - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To redirect T cells against tumor cells, T cells can be engineered ex vivo to express cancer-
antigen specific T cell receptors (TCRs), generating products known as TCR-engineered T …

[HTML][HTML] Adoptive T cell immunotherapy for cancer

K Perica, JC Varela, M Oelke… - Rambam Maimonides …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Harnessing the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells has been the central
goal of anti-cancer immunotherapy. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in …

Facilitating matched pairing and expression of TCR chains introduced into human T cells

J Kuball, ML Dossett, M Wolfl, WY Ho, RH Voss… - Blood, 2007 - ashpublications.org
Adoptive transfer of T lymphocytes is a promising treatment for a variety of malignancies but
often not feasible due to difficulties generating T cells that are reactive with the targeted …

Transferred WT1-Reactive CD8+ T Cells Can Mediate Antileukemic Activity and Persist in Post-Transplant Patients

AG Chapuis, GB Ragnarsson, HN Nguyen… - Science translational …, 2013 - science.org
Relapse remains a leading cause of death after allogeneic hematopoietic cell
transplantation (HCT) for patients with high-risk leukemias. The potentially beneficial donor …

A live-attenuated Listeria vaccine (ANZ-100) and a live-attenuated Listeria vaccine expressing mesothelin (CRS-207) for advanced cancers: phase I studies of safety …

DT Le, DG Brockstedt, R Nir-Paz, J Hampl, S Mathur… - Clinical cancer …, 2012 - AACR
Abstract Purpose: Listeria monocytogenes (Lm)-based vaccines stimulate both innate and
adaptive immunity. ANZ-100 is a live-attenuated Lm strain (Lm Δ actA/Δ inlB). Uptake by …

Ready for repair? Gene editing enters the clinic for the treatment of human disease

MPT Ernst, M Broeders, P Herrero-Hernandez… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2020 - cell.com
We present an overview of clinical trials involving gene editing using clustered interspaced
short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9), transcription …

Activation-induced expression of CD137 permits detection, isolation, and expansion of the full repertoire of CD8+ T cells responding to antigen without requiring …

M Wolfl, J Kuball, WY Ho, H Nguyen… - Blood, The Journal …, 2007 - ashpublications.org
CD137 is a member of the TNFR-family with costimulatory function. Here we show that it
also has many favorable characteristics as a surrogate marker for antigen-specific activation …

MHC class I–associated phosphopeptides are the targets of memory-like immunity in leukemia

M Cobbold, H De La Peña, A Norris… - Science translational …, 2013 - science.org
Deregulation of signaling pathways is a hallmark of malignant transformation. Signaling-
associated phosphoproteins can be degraded to generate cancer-specific phosphopeptides …

The quest for the best: how TCR affinity, avidity, and functional avidity affect TCR-engineered T-cell antitumor responses

D Campillo-Davo, D Flumens, E Lion - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Over the past decades, adoptive transfer of T cells has revolutionized cancer
immunotherapy. In particular, T-cell receptor (TCR) engineering of T cells has marked …

γδT cells elicited by CMV reactivation after allo-SCT cross-recognize CMV and leukemia

W Scheper, S van Dorp, S Kersting, F Pietersma… - Leukemia, 2013 - nature.com
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections and relapse of disease remain major problems
after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT), in particular in combination with CMV …