The matrix in cancer

TR Cox - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
The extracellular matrix is a fundamental, core component of all tissues and organs, and is
essential for the existence of multicellular organisms. From the earliest stages of organism …

Engineering strategies to overcome the current roadblocks in CAR T cell therapy

S Rafiq, CS Hackett, RJ Brentjens - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
T cells genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have proven—
and impressive—therapeutic activity in patients with certain subtypes of B cell leukaemia or …

CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors: bright future or dark reality?

J Wagner, E Wickman, C DeRenzo, S Gottschalk - Molecular therapy, 2020 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has garnered significant excitement due to
its success for hematological malignancies in clinical studies leading to the US Food and …

Applications of nanobodies

S Muyldermans - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Unique, functional, homodimeric heavy chain–only antibodies, devoid of light chains, are
circulating in the blood of Camelidae. These antibodies recognize their cognate antigen via …

Nanobodies: next generation of cancer diagnostics and therapeutics

EY Yang, K Shah - Frontiers in Oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The development of targeted medicine has greatly expanded treatment options and spurred
new research avenues in cancer therapeutics, with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) emerging …

A guide to: generation and design of nanobodies

S Muyldermans - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A nanobody (Nb) is a registered trademark of Ablynx, referring to the single antigen‐binding
domain of heavy chain‐only antibodies (HCAbs) that are circulating in Camelidae. Nbs are …

Metal-free bioorthogonal click chemistry in cancer theranostics

D Wu, K Yang, Z Zhang, Y Feng, L Rao… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Bioorthogonal chemistry is a powerful tool to site-specifically activate drugs in living systems.
Bioorthogonal reactions between a pair of biologically reactive groups can rapidly and …

[HTML][HTML] PHGDH-mediated endothelial metabolism drives glioblastoma resistance to chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy

D Zhang, AM Li, G Hu, M Huang, F Yang, L Zhang… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
The efficacy of immunotherapy is limited by the paucity of T cells delivered and infiltrated into
the tumors through aberrant tumor vasculature. Here, we report that phosphoglycerate …

[HTML][HTML] CAR-T design: Elements and their synergistic function

J Jayaraman, MP Mellody, AJ Hou, RP Desai… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells use re-engineered cell surface receptors to
specifically bind to and lyse oncogenic cells. Two clinically approved CAR-T–cell therapies …

Nanobody-based CAR-T cells for cancer immunotherapy

P Safarzadeh Kozani, A Naseri, SMJ Mirarefin… - Biomarker …, 2022 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is the result of combining genetic
engineering-based cancer immunotherapy with adoptive cell therapy (ACT). CAR-T therapy …