CAR immune cells: design principles, resistance and the next generation

L Labanieh, CL Mackall - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The remarkable clinical activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies in B cell and
plasma cell malignancies has validated the use of this therapeutic class for liquid cancers …

Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Non-viral, specifically targeted CAR-T cells achieve high safety and efficacy in B-NHL

J Zhang, Y Hu, J Yang, W Li, M Zhang, Q Wang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recently, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has shown great promise in
treating haematological malignancies,,,,,–. However, CAR-T cell therapy currently has …

Engineering the next-generation of CAR T-cells with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

A Dimitri, F Herbst, JA Fraietta - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells represent a breakthrough in personalized
cancer therapy. In this strategy, synthetic receptors comprised of antigen recognition …

Engineering strategies to enhance oncolytic viruses in cancer immunotherapy

Y Tian, D Xie, L Yang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as potentially useful platforms in treatment methods for
patients with tumors. They preferentially target and kill tumor cells, leaving healthy cells …

Enhanced safety and efficacy of protease-regulated CAR-T cell receptors

L Labanieh, RG Majzner, D Klysz, E Sotillo, CJ Fisher… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Regulatable CAR platforms could circumvent toxicities associated with CAR-T therapy, but
existing systems have shortcomings including leakiness and attenuated activity. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering CAR-T cells for next-generation cancer therapy

M Hong, JD Clubb, YY Chen - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with tumor specificity have
shown remarkable success in treating patients with hematologic malignancies and …

Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors

GM Allen, NW Frankel, NR Reddy, HK Bhargava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are ineffective against solid tumors with
immunosuppressive microenvironments. To overcome suppression, we engineered circuits …

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 …

Delivery of CAR-T cells in a transient injectable stimulatory hydrogel niche improves treatment of solid tumors

AK Grosskopf, L Labanieh, DD Klysz, GA Roth, P Xu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has proven to be highly effective in treating blood cancers, but
traditional approaches to ACT are poorly effective in treating solid tumors observed …