Eras of designer Tregs: Harnessing synthetic biology for immune suppression

K Tuomela, K Salim, MK Levings - Immunological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Since their discovery, CD4+ CD25hiFOXP3hi regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been firmly
established as a critical cell type for regulating immune homeostasis through a plethora of …

Enhancing cellular immunotherapies in cancer by engineering selective therapeutic resistance

N Wellhausen, J Baek, SI Gill, CH June - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Adoptive cell therapies engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) or
transgenic T cell receptors (TCRs) to recognize and eliminate cancer cells have emerged as …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic immune checkpoint engagers protect HLA-deficient iPSCs and derivatives from innate immune cell cytotoxicity

A Gravina, G Tediashvili, Y Zheng, KA Iwabuchi… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Immune rejection of allogeneic cell therapeutics remains a major problem for immuno-
oncology and regenerative medicine. Allogeneic cell products so far have inferior …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoimmune islets achieve insulin independence after allogeneic transplantation in a fully immunocompetent non-human primate

X Hu, K White, C Young, AG Olroyd, P Kievit… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Allogeneic transplantation of pancreatic islets for patients with difficult-to-control diabetes
mellitus is severely hampered by the requirement for continuous immunosuppression and its …

[HTML][HTML] High-specificity CRISPR-mediated genome engineering in anti-BCMA allogeneic CAR T cells suppresses allograft rejection in preclinical models

E Degagné, PD Donohoue, S Roy, J Scherer… - Cancer Immunology …, 2024 - AACR
Allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies hold the potential to overcome
many of the challenges associated with patient-derived (autologous) CAR T cells. Key …

[HTML][HTML] Immunosuppressant therapy averts rejection of allogeneic FKBP1A-disrupted CAR-T cells

CR Maldini, AC Messana, PB Bendet, AJ Camblin… - Molecular Therapy, 2024 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells from allogeneic donors promise" off-the-shelf"
availability by overcoming challenges associated with autologous cell manufacturing …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering human pluripotent stem cell lines to evade xenogeneic transplantation barriers

HA Pizzato, P Alonso-Guallart, J Woods… - Stem cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Successful allogeneic human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived therapies must overcome
immunological rejection by the recipient. To build reagents to define these barriers, we …

Remyelination in the Central Nervous System

RJM Franklin, B Bodini… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The inability of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) to undergo spontaneous
regeneration has long been regarded as a central tenet of neurobiology. However, while this …

Genetically engineered hypoimmunogenic cell therapy

A Hotta, S Schrepfer, A Nagy - Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 2024 - nature.com
Immune rejection is an important obstacle to the use of allogeneic 'off-the-shelf'cells for
transplantation into immunocompetent patients. Genetic modification has emerged as a …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered CD47 protects T cells for enhanced antitumour immunity

SA Yamada-Hunter, J Theruvath, BJ McIntosh… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Adoptively transferred T cells and agents designed to block the CD47–SIRPα axis are
promising cancer therapeutics that activate distinct arms of the immune system,. Here we …