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 …

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 …

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 …

Anti-GD2 synergizes with CD47 blockade to mediate tumor eradication

J Theruvath, M Menard, BAH Smith, MH Linde… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
The disialoganglioside GD2 is overexpressed on several solid tumors, and monoclonal
antibodies targeting GD2 have substantially improved outcomes for children with high-risk …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical impact of glycobiology: targeting selectins, Siglecs and mammalian glycans

BAH Smith, CR Bertozzi - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
Carbohydrates—namely glycans—decorate every cell in the human body and most secreted
proteins. Advances in genomics, glycoproteomics and tools from chemical biology have …

[PDF][PDF] Enhanced safety and efficacy of protease-regulated CAR-T cell receptors

L Labanieh, RG Majzner, D Klysz, E Sotillo, CJ Fisher… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Regulatable CAR platforms could circumvent toxicities associated with CAR-T therapy, but
existing systems have shortcomings including leakiness and attenuated activity. Here, we …

Tuning the antigen density requirement for CAR T-cell activity

RG Majzner, SP Rietberg, E Sotillo, R Dong… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
Insufficient reactivity against cells with low antigen density has emerged as an important
cause of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell resistance. Little is known about factors that …

[PDF][PDF] 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 …

Brain immunology and immunotherapy in brain tumours

JH Sampson, MD Gunn, PE Fecci, DM Ashley - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Gliomas, the most common malignant primary brain tumours, remain universally lethal. Yet,
seminal discoveries in the past 5 years have clarified the anatomy, genetics and function of …