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 …

Co-stimulatory receptor signaling in CAR-T cells

MM Honikel, SH Olejniczak - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
T cell engineering strategies have emerged as successful immunotherapeutic approaches
for the treatment of human cancer. Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy …

Harnessing CD3 diversity to optimize CAR T cells

RMH Velasco Cárdenas, SM Brandl, AV Meléndez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Current US Food and Drug Administration-approved chimeric antigen receptor
(CAR) T cells harbor the T cell receptor (TCR)-derived ζ chain as an intracellular activation …

Demethylating therapy increases anti-CD123 CAR T cell cytotoxicity against acute myeloid leukemia

N El Khawanky, A Hughes, W Yu, R Myburgh… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Successful treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)
T cells is hampered by toxicity on normal hematopoietic progenitor cells and low CAR T cell …

Mutation-specific CAR T cells as precision therapy for IGLV3-21R110 expressing high-risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia

F Märkl, C Schultheiß, M Ali, SS Chen… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The concept of precision cell therapy targeting tumor-specific mutations is appealing but
requires surface-exposed neoepitopes, which is a rarity in cancer. B cell receptors (BCR) of …

Screening for CD19-specific chimaeric antigen receptors with enhanced signalling via a barcoded library of intracellular domains

KS Gordon, T Kyung, CR Perez, PV Holec… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The immunostimulatory intracellular domains (ICDs) of chimaeric antigen receptors (CARs)
are essential for converting antigen recognition into antitumoural function. Although there …

Self-programmed dynamics of T cell receptor condensation

H Chen, X Xu, W Hu, S Wu, J Xiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
A common event upon receptor–ligand engagement is the formation of receptor clusters on
the cell surface, in which signaling molecules are specifically recruited or excluded to form …

Comparative analysis of TCR and CAR signaling informs CAR designs with superior antigen sensitivity and in vivo function

AI Salter, A Rajan, JJ Kennedy, RG Ivey, SA Shelby… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–modified T cell therapy is effective in treating lymphomas,
leukemias, and multiple myeloma in which the tumor cells express high amounts of target …

[HTML][HTML] Tuned activation of MSLN-CAR T cells induces superior antitumor responses in ovarian cancer models

E Schoutrop, T Poiret, I El-Serafi, Y Zhao… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Limited persistence of functional CAR T cells in the immunosuppressive solid
tumor microenvironment remains a major hurdle in the successful translation of CAR T cell …

Comparing CAR and TCR engineered T cell performance as a function of tumor cell exposure

TLA Wachsmann, AK Wouters, DFG Remst… - …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have resulted in profound clinical
responses in the treatment of CD19-positive hematological malignancies, but a significant …