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 …

Metabolic challenges and interventions in CAR T cell therapy

JJ Peng, L Wang, Z Li, CL Ku, PC Ho - Science Immunology, 2023 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have achieved true clinical success in treating
hematological malignancy patients, laying the foundation of CAR T cells as a new pillar of …

Decoding CAR T cell phenotype using combinatorial signaling motif libraries and machine learning

KG Daniels, S Wang, MS Simic, HK Bhargava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) costimulatory domains derived from native immune
receptors steer the phenotypic output of therapeutic T cells. We constructed a library of …

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to advance cell therapy

S Capponi, KG Daniels - Immunological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cell therapies are powerful technologies in which human cells are reprogrammed for
therapeutic applications such as killing cancer cells or replacing defective cells. The …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of CAR T cell exhaustion and current counteraction strategies

X Zhu, Q Li, X Zhu - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The functional state of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells determines their efficacy in
vivo. Exhausted CAR T cells exhibit decreased proliferative capacity, impaired anti-tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Programmable synthetic receptors: the next-generation of cell and gene therapies

F Teng, T Cui, L Zhou, Q Gao, Q Zhou… - Signal Transduction and …, 2024 - nature.com
Cell and gene therapies hold tremendous promise for treating a range of difficult-to-treat
diseases. However, concerns over the safety and efficacy require to be further addressed in …

CTLA-4 tail fusion enhances CAR-T antitumor immunity

X Zhou, H Cao, SY Fang, RD Chow, K Tang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells are powerful therapeutics; however, their efficacy is
often hindered by critical hurdles. Here utilizing the endocytic feature of the cytotoxic T …

Toward the clinical development of synthetic immunity to cancer

JM Garcia, CE Burnett, KT Roybal - Immunological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Synthetic biology (synbio) tools, such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), have been
designed to target, activate, and improve immune cell responses to tumors. These therapies …

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 …

Synthesizing a Smarter CAR T Cell: Advanced Engineering of T-Cell Immunotherapies

I Zhu, DI Piraner, KT Roybal - Cancer immunology research, 2023 - AACR
The immune system includes an array of specialized cells that keep us healthy by
responding to pathogenic cues. Investigations into the mechanisms behind immune cell …