Expanding the therapeutic window for CAR T cell therapy in solid tumors: the knowns and unknowns of CAR T cell biology

K Watanabe, S Kuramitsu, AD Posey Jr… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
A major obstacle for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in solid tumors is the
lack of truly tumor-specific target antigens, which translates to the targeting of tumor …

Gene-engineered T cells for cancer therapy

MH Kershaw, JA Westwood, PK Darcy - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2013 - nature.com
T cells have the capacity to eradicate diseased cells, but tumours present considerable
challenges that render T cells ineffectual. Cancer cells often make themselves …

CD22-targeted CAR T cells induce remission in B-ALL that is naive or resistant to CD19-targeted CAR immunotherapy

TJ Fry, NN Shah, RJ Orentas, M Stetler-Stevenson… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting CD19 mediate potent effects in relapsed
and/or refractory pre–B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL), but antigen loss is a …

Tumor antigen and receptor densities regulate efficacy of a chimeric antigen receptor targeting anaplastic lymphoma kinase

AJ Walker, RG Majzner, L Zhang, K Wanhainen… - Molecular Therapy, 2017 - cell.com
We explored the utility of targeting anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), a cell surface
receptor overexpressed on pediatric solid tumors, using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) …

Integrating proteomics and transcriptomics for systematic combinatorial chimeric antigen receptor therapy of AML

F Perna, SH Berman, RK Soni, J Mansilla-Soto… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy targeting CD19 has yielded remarkable outcomes
in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. To identify potential CAR targets in acute …

Tuning sensitivity of CAR to EGFR density limits recognition of normal tissue while maintaining potent antitumor activity

HG Caruso, LV Hurton, A Najjar, D Rushworth, S Ang… - Cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Many tumors overexpress tumor-associated antigens relative to normal tissue, such as
EGFR. This limits targeting by human T cells modified to express chimeric antigen receptors …

Generation of tumor-targeted human T lymphocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells for cancer therapy

M Themeli, CC Kloss, G Ciriello, VD Fedorov… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Progress in adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer and infectious diseases, is hampered by the
lack of readily available, antigen-specific, human T lymphocytes. Pluripotent stem cells could …

Target antigen density governs the efficacy of anti–CD20-CD28-CD3 ζ chimeric antigen receptor–modified effector CD8+ T cells

K Watanabe, S Terakura, AC Martens… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.aai.org
The effectiveness of chimeric Ag receptor (CAR)–transduced T (CAR-T) cells has been
attributed to supraphysiological signaling through CARs. Second-and later-generation …

The promise and potential pitfalls of chimeric antigen receptors

M Sadelain, R Brentjens, I Rivière - Current opinion in immunology, 2009 - Elsevier
One important purpose of T cell engineering is to generate tumor-targeted T cells through
the genetic transfer of antigen-specific receptors, which consist of either physiological, MHC …

CAR T cell therapy for neuroblastoma

RM Richards, E Sotillo, RG Majzner - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Patients with high risk neuroblastoma have a poor prognosis and survivors are often left with
debilitating long term sequelae from treatment. Even after integration of anti-GD2 …