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 …

Advancing therapy for neuroblastoma

B Qiu, KK Matthay - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroblastomas are tumours of sympathetic origin, with a heterogeneous clinical course
ranging from localized or spontaneously regressing to widely metastatic disease …

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 …

A guide to the composition and functions of the extracellular matrix

NK Karamanos, AD Theocharis, Z Piperigkou… - The FEBS …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular matrix (ECM) is a dynamic 3‐dimensional network of macromolecules that
provides structural support for the cells and tissues. Accumulated knowledge clearly …

CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors: bright future or dark reality?

J Wagner, E Wickman, C DeRenzo, S Gottschalk - Molecular therapy, 2020 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has garnered significant excitement due to
its success for hematological malignancies in clinical studies leading to the US Food and …

The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

[HTML][HTML] GPC2-CAR T cells tuned for low antigen density mediate potent activity against neuroblastoma without toxicity

S Heitzeneder, KR Bosse, Z Zhu, D Zhelev… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pediatric cancers often mimic fetal tissues and express proteins normally silenced
postnatally that could serve as immune targets. We developed T cells expressing chimeric …

The extracellular matrix as a multitasking player in disease

AD Theocharis, D Manou, NK Karamanos - The FEBS journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular matrices (ECM s) are highly specialized and dynamic three‐dimensional (3D)
scaffolds into which cells reside in tissues. ECM is composed of a variety of fibrillar …

Advancing CAR T cell therapy through the use of multidimensional omics data

J Yang, Y Chen, Y Jing, MR Green, L Han - Nature Reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the notable success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies in the
treatment of certain haematological malignancies, challenges remain in optimizing CAR …

Proteoglycan chemical diversity drives multifunctional cell regulation and therapeutics

NK Karamanos, Z Piperigkou, AD Theocharis… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The extracellular matrix (ECM) constitutes a highly dynamic three-dimensional structural
network comprised of macromolecules, such as proteoglycans/glycosaminoglycans …