Mechanisms of resistance to chimeric antigen receptor-T cells in haematological Malignancies

M Ruella, F Korell, P Porazzi, MV Maus - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells have recently emerged as a powerful therapeutic
approach for the treatment of patients with chemotherapy-refractory or relapsed blood …

Hypoxia drives CD39-dependent suppressor function in exhausted T cells to limit antitumor immunity

PDA Vignali, K DePeaux, MLJ Watson, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical for elimination of cancer cells. Factors within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) can drive these cells to a hypofunctional state known as …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of resistance to engineered T cell therapies targeting CD19 in large B cell lymphomas

BJ Sworder, DM Kurtz, SK Alig, MJ Frank, N Shukla… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most relapsed/refractory large B cell lymphoma (r/rLBCL) patients receiving anti-CD19
chimeric antigen receptor (CAR19) T cells relapse. To characterize determinants of …

Resisting T cell attack: tumor-cell-intrinsic defense and reparation mechanisms

B McKenzie, S Valitutti - Trends in Cancer, 2023 - cell.com
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) are antigen-specific killer cells equipped to identify and
eliminate host cells that have been altered through infection or transformation. Both chimeric …

Plasticity-induced repression of Irf6 underlies acquired resistance to cancer immunotherapy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

IK Kim, MS Diamond, S Yuan, SB Kemp… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Acquired resistance to immunotherapy remains a critical yet incompletely understood
biological mechanism. Here, using a mouse model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma …

Progressively enhancing stemness of adoptively transferred T cells with PI3Kδ blockade improves metabolism and antitumor immunity

GO Rangel Rivera, CJ Dwyer, HM Knochelmann… - Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
Generating stem-like memory T cells (TSCM) is a potential strategy to improve adoptive
immunotherapy. Elucidating optimal ways to modulate signaling pathways that enrich TSCM …

Safety and efficacy of a novel anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cell product targeting a membrane-proximal domain of CD19 with fast on-and off-rates against …

Y Zhang, RP Patel, KH Kim, H Cho, JC Jo, SH Jeong… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Background Commercial anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies (CART19)
are efficacious against advanced B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL); however, most …

[HTML][HTML] Apoptosis: A Janus bifrons in T-cell immunotherapy

YG Lee, N Yang, I Chun, P Porazzi… - … for Immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer. In particular, immune checkpoint
blockade, bispecific antibodies, and adoptive T-cell transfer have yielded unprecedented …

CARs and drugs: pharmacological ways of boosting CAR-T-cell therapy

DC Harrer, J Dörrie, N Schaft - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The development of chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T cells) has marked a new era in
cancer immunotherapy. Based on a multitude of durable complete remissions in patients …

The BTLA–HVEM axis restricts CAR T cell efficacy in cancer

P Guruprasad, A Carturan, Y Zhang, JH Cho… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The efficacy of T cell-based immunotherapies is limited by immunosuppressive pressures in
the tumor microenvironment. Here we show a predominant role for the interaction between …