Current strategies employed in the manipulation of gene expression for clinical purposes

HC Tsai, V Pietrobon, M Peng, S Wang, L Zhao… - Journal of Translational …, 2022 - Springer
Abnormal gene expression level or expression of genes containing deleterious mutations
are two of the main determinants which lead to genetic disease. To obtain a therapeutic …

Peptide-mediated delivery of CRISPR enzymes for the efficient editing of primary human lymphocytes

DV Foss, JJ Muldoon, DN Nguyen, D Carr… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-mediated genome editing of primary human lymphocytes is typically carried out via
electroporation, which can be cytotoxic, cumbersome and costly. Here we show that the …

Genomic analysis of Foxp3 function in regulatory T cells

GA Dolsten, Y Pritykin - The Journal of Immunology, 2023 - journals.aai.org
Regulatory T (Treg) cells are critical for tolerance to self-antigens and for preventing
autoimmunity. Foxp3 has been identified as a Treg cell lineage-defining transcription factor …

Epigenetic profiles guide improved CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockout in human T cells

Y Ito, S Inoue, T Nakashima, H Zhang, Y Li… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Genetic modification of specific genes is emerging as a useful tool to enhance the functions
of antitumor T cells in adoptive immunotherapy. Current advances in CRISPR/Cas9 …

Engineering challenges and opportunities in autologous cellular cancer immunotherapy

CR Foley, SL Swan, MA Swartz - The Journal of Immunology, 2024 - journals.aai.org
The use of a patient's own immune or tumor cells, manipulated ex vivo, enables Ag-or
patient-specific immunotherapy. Despite some clinical successes, there remain significant …

Molecular and therapeutic effect of CRISPR in treating cancer

S Rodrigo, K Senasinghe, S Quazi - Medical Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Cancer has become one of the common causes of mortality around the globe due to
mutations in the genome which allows rapid growth of cells uncontrollably without repairing …

Proximal binding of dCas9 at a DNA double strand break stimulates homology-directed repair as a local inhibitor of classical non-homologous end joining

YL Feng, SC Liu, RD Chen, XN Sun… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, the tight and persistent target binding of Cas9 provides an
opportunity for efficient genetic and epigenetic modification on genome. In particular …

Metabolic engineering for optimized CAR-T cell therapy

SJ McPhedran, GA Carleton, JJ Lum - Nature Metabolism, 2024 - nature.com
The broad effectiveness of T cell-based therapy for treating solid tumour cancers remains
limited. This is partly due to the growing appreciation that immune cells must inhabit and …

Applications of single‐cell omics for chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy

S Ghaffari, M Saleh, B Akbari, F Ramezani… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is a promising cancer treatment modality.
The breakthroughs in CAR T cell therapy were, in part, possible with the help of cell analysis …

Engineered T cells from induced pluripotent stem cells: from research towards clinical implementation

R Netsrithong, L Garcia-Perez, M Themeli - Frontiers in immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived T (iT) cells represent a groundbreaking frontier
in adoptive cell therapies with engineered T cells, poised to overcome pivotal limitations …