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 …

CAR-T cells hit the tumor microenvironment: strategies to overcome tumor escape

A Rodriguez-Garcia, A Palazon… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have demonstrated remarkable efficacy for
the treatment of hematological malignancies. However, in patients with solid tumors …

Human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for cancer immunotherapy

M Klichinsky, M Ruella, O Shestova, XM Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown promise in hematologic
malignancies, but its application to solid tumors has been challenging,,–. Given the unique …

CAR-T cell-mediated depletion of immunosuppressive tumor-associated macrophages promotes endogenous antitumor immunity and augments adoptive …

A Rodriguez-Garcia, RC Lynn, M Poussin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) represents a major barrier for
effective immunotherapy. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are highly heterogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] Magnesium sensing via LFA-1 regulates CD8+ T cell effector function

J Lötscher, AAM i Líndez, N Kirchhammer, E Cribioli… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The relevance of extracellular magnesium in cellular immunity remains largely unknown.
Here, we show that the co-stimulatory cell-surface molecule LFA-1 requires magnesium to …

Chimeric antigen receptor-engineered natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy

A Yilmaz, H Cui, MA Caligiuri, J Yu - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2020 - Springer
Natural killer (NK) cells are a critical component of the innate immune system. Chimeric
antigen receptors (CARs) re-direct NK cells toward tumor cells carrying corresponding …

Engineering-enhanced CAR T cells for improved cancer therapy

MC Milone, J Xu, SJ Chen, MKA Collins, J Zhou… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies have evolved from a research tool to a
concept-shifting therapy with impressive responses in B cell malignancies. This Review …

The pharmacology of second-generation chimeric antigen receptors

SJC Van Der Stegen, M Hamieh… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Second-generation chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) retarget and reprogramme T cells to
augment their antitumour efficacy. The combined activating and co-stimulatory domains …

Enhancing CAR-T cell efficacy in solid tumors by targeting the tumor microenvironment

G Liu, W Rui, X Zhao, X Lin - Cellular & Molecular Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has achieved successful outcomes against
hematological malignancies and provided a new impetus for treating solid tumors. However …

Making better chimeric antigen receptors for adoptive T-cell therapy

MV Maus, CH June - Clinical cancer research, 2016 - AACR
Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) are engineered fusion proteins constructed from antigen
recognition, signaling, and costimulatory domains that can be expressed in cytotoxic T cells …