CAR immune cells: design principles, resistance and the next generation

L Labanieh, CL Mackall - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The remarkable clinical activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies in B cell and
plasma cell malignancies has validated the use of this therapeutic class for liquid cancers …

[HTML][HTML] CAR race to cancer immunotherapy: from CAR T, CAR NK to CAR macrophage therapy

K Pan, H Farrukh, VCSR Chittepu, H Xu, C Pan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - Springer
Adoptive cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) immunotherapy has made
tremendous progress with five CAR T therapies approved by the US Food and Drug …

Co-opting signalling molecules enables logic-gated control of CAR T cells

AM Tousley, MC Rotiroti, L Labanieh, LW Rysavy… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have altered the treatment landscape for B
cell malignancies, the risk of on-target, off-tumour toxicity has hampered their development …

Recent advances and discoveries in the mechanisms and functions of CAR T cells

RC Larson, MV Maus - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
This Review discusses the major advances and changes made over the past 3 years to our
understanding of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell efficacy and safety. Recently, the …

Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling

EW Weber, KR Parker, E Sotillo, RC Lynn… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION More than 50% of patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–T
cells for B cell malignancies develop progressive disease after CAR therapy, and these …

Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

Overcoming on-target, off-tumour toxicity of CAR T cell therapy for solid tumours

CL Flugel, RG Majzner, G Krenciute, G Dotti… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Therapies with genetically modified T cells that express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
specific for CD19 or B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) are approved to treat certain B cell …

Engineering living therapeutics with synthetic biology

A Cubillos-Ruiz, T Guo, A Sokolovska… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
The steadfast advance of the synthetic biology field has enabled scientists to use genetically
engineered cells, instead of small molecules or biologics, as the basis for the development …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer stem cells—origins and biomarkers: perspectives for targeted personalized therapies

L Walcher, AK Kistenmacher, H Suo, R Kitte… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The use of biomarkers in diagnosis, therapy and prognosis has gained increasing interest
over the last decades. In particular, the analysis of biomarkers in cancer patients within the …