CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors

K Newick, S O'Brien, E Moon… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The field of cancer immunotherapy has been re-energized by the application of chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in cancers. These CAR T cells are engineered to …

[HTML][HTML] Different subsets of T cells, memory, effector functions, and CAR-T immunotherapy

V Golubovskaya, L Wu - Cancers, 2016 - mdpi.com
This review is focused on different subsets of T cells: CD4 and CD8, memory and effector
functions, and their role in CAR-T therapy––a cellular adoptive immunotherapy with T cells …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

T cells expressing an anti–B-cell maturation antigen chimeric antigen receptor cause remissions of multiple myeloma

SA Ali, V Shi, I Maric, M Wang… - Blood, The Journal …, 2016 - ashpublications.org
Therapies with novel mechanisms of action are needed for multiple myeloma (MM). B-cell
maturation antigen (BCMA) is expressed in most cases of MM. We conducted the first-in …

A phase 1 study of a novel fully human BCMA-targeting CAR (CT103A) in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma

D Wang, J Wang, G Hu, W Wang, Y Xiao… - Blood, The Journal …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-specific chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies
have shown efficacy in relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Because the non …

Engineering CAR-T cells: design concepts

S Srivastava, SR Riddell - Trends in immunology, 2015 - cell.com
Despite being empirically designed based on a simple understanding of TCR signaling, T
cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have been remarkably successful …

Mesothelin-targeted CARs: driving T cells to solid tumors

A Morello, M Sadelain, PS Adusumilli - Cancer discovery, 2016 - AACR
Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) are synthetic receptors that target T cells to cell-surface
antigens and augment T-cell function and persistence. Mesothelin is a cell-surface antigen …

[HTML][HTML] Chimeric antigen receptor expressing natural killer cells for the immunotherapy of cancer

RS Mehta, K Rezvani - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cell therapy has emerged as a powerful treatment for advanced cancers resistant
to conventional agents. Most notable are the remarkable responses seen in patients …

Design and development of therapies using chimeric antigen receptor‐expressing T cells

G Dotti, S Gottschalk, B Savoldo… - Immunological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Investigators developed chimeric antigen receptors (CAR s) for expression on T cells more
than 25 years ago. When the CAR is derived from an antibody, the resultant cell should …

Optimized gene engineering of murine CAR-T cells reveals the beneficial effects of IL-15 coexpression

E Lanitis, G Rota, P Kosti, C Ronet, A Spill… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Limited clinical benefit has been demonstrated for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy
of solid tumors, but coengineering strategies to generate so-called fourth-generation (4G) …