[HTML][HTML] Caspase-9: structure, mechanisms and clinical application

P Li, L Zhou, T Zhao, X Liu, P Zhang, Y Liu, X Zheng… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
As the most intensively studied initiator caspase, caspase-9 is a key player in the intrinsic or
mitochondrial pathway which is involved in various stimuli, including chemotherapies, stress …

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 …

A highly compact epitope-based marker/suicide gene for easier and safer T-cell therapy

B Philip, E Kokalaki, L Mekkaoui… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
A compact marker/suicide gene that utilizes established clinical-grade reagents and
pharmaceuticals would be of considerable practical utility to T-cell cancer gene therapy …

A foundation for universal T-cell based immunotherapy: T cells engineered to express a CD19-specific chimeric-antigen-receptor and eliminate expression of …

H Torikai, A Reik, PQ Liu, Y Zhou… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
Clinical-grade T cells are genetically modified ex vivo to express a chimeric antigen receptor
(CAR) to redirect specificity to a tumor associated antigen (TAA) thereby conferring antitumor …

Inducible caspase-9 selectively modulates the toxicities of CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cells

I Diaconu, B Ballard, M Zhang, Y Chen, J West, G Dotti… - Molecular Therapy, 2017 - cell.com
Immunotherapy with T cells expressing the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific for the
CD19 antigen (CD19. CAR-Ts) is a very effective treatment in B cell lymphoid malignancies …

Chimeric receptors with 4-1BB signaling capacity provoke potent cytotoxicity against acute lymphoblastic leukemia

C Imai, K Mihara, M Andreansky, IC Nicholson, CH Pui… - Leukemia, 2004 - nature.com
To develop a therapy for drug-resistant B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), we
transduced T lymphocytes with anti-CD19 chimeric receptors, consisting of an anti-CD19 …

An inducible caspase 9 safety switch for T-cell therapy

KC Straathof, MA Pule, P Yotnda, G Dotti, EF Vanin… - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
The efficacy of adoptive T-cell therapy as treatment for malignancies may be enhanced by
genetic modification of infused cells. However, oncogenic events due to vector/transgene …

Redirecting T-cell specificity by introducing a tumor-specific chimeric antigen receptor

B Jena, G Dotti, LJN Cooper - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
Infusions of antigen-specific T cells have yielded therapeutic responses in patients with
pathogens and tumors. To broaden the clinical application of adoptive immunotherapy …

Complement activation determines the therapeutic activity of rituximab in vivo

N Di Gaetano, E Cittera, R Nota, A Vecchi… - The Journal of …, 2003 - journals.aai.org
Rituximab is an anti-CD20 chimeric mAb effective for the treatment of B-NHL. It can lyse
lymphoma cells in vitro through both C-and Ab-dependent cellular cytotoxicity. The …

Optimized depletion of chimeric antigen receptor T cells in murine xenograft models of human acute myeloid leukemia

SK Tasian, SS Kenderian, F Shen… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
We and others previously reported potent antileukemia efficacy of CD123-redirected
chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in preclinical human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) …