Novel antifungals and treatment approaches to tackle resistance and improve outcomes of invasive fungal disease

M Hoenigl, A Arastehfar, MC Arendrup… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungal infections are on the rise, driven by a growing population at risk and climate change.
Currently available antifungals include only five classes, and their utility and efficacy in …

Regulation and impact of tumor-specific CD4+ T cells in cancer and immunotherapy

M Guo, MYR Liu, DG Brooks - Trends in Immunology, 2024 - cell.com
CD4+ T cells are crucial in generating and sustaining immune responses. They orchestrate
and fine-tune mammalian innate and adaptive immunity through cell-based interactions and …

Identification of core techniques that enhance genome editing of human T cells expressing synthetic antigen receptors

JF Chang, N Wellhausen, NW Engel… - Cancer Immunology …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Genome editing technologies have seen remarkable progress in recent years, enabling
precise regulation of exogenous and endogenous genes. These advances have been …

CD5 deletion enhances the antitumor activity of adoptive T cell therapies

RP Patel, G Ghilardi, Y Zhang, YH Chiang, W Xie… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Most patients treated with US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR) T cells eventually experience disease progression. Furthermore …

Mapping variant effects on anti-tumor hallmarks of primary human T cells with base-editing screens

ZH Walsh, P Shah, N Kothapalli, SB Shah… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in key T cell genes can drive clinical pathologies and
could be repurposed to improve cellular cancer immunotherapies. Here, we perform …

Revolutionizing cancer treatment: enhancing CAR-T cell therapy with CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology

R Tao, X Han, X Bai, J Yu, Y Ma, W Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
CAR-T cell therapy, a novel immunotherapy, has made significant breakthroughs in clinical
practice, particularly in treating B-cell-associated leukemia and lymphoma. However, it still …

A CAR enhancer increases the activity and persistence of CAR T cells

T Rakhshandehroo, SR Mantri, H Moravej… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have demonstrated promising
clinical outcomes, durable remissions remain limited. To extend the efficacy of CAR T cells …

CD28 co-stimulation: novel insights and applications in cancer immunotherapy

MT Lotze, SH Olejniczak, D Skokos - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Substantial progress in understanding T cell signalling, particularly with respect to T cell co-
receptors such as the co-stimulatory receptor CD28, has been made in recent years. This …

Altered cancer metabolism and implications for next-generation CAR T-cell therapies

R Ramapriyan, VS Vykunta, G Vandecandelaere… - Pharmacology & …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review critically examines the evolving landscape of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-
cell therapy in treating solid tumors, with a particular focus on the metabolic challenges …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering self-propelled tumor-infiltrating CAR T cells using synthetic velocity receptors

AC Johnston, GM Alicea, CC Lee, PV Patel, EA Hanna… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells express antigen-specific synthetic receptors, which
upon binding to cancer cells, elicit T cell anti-tumor responses. CAR T cell therapy has …