Allogeneic CAR T cells: an alternative to overcome challenges of CAR T cell therapy in glioblastoma

D Martínez Bedoya, V Dutoit, D Migliorini - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has emerged as one of the major
breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy in the last decade. Outstanding results in …

sustainable clinical development of CAR-T cells–switching from viral transduction towards CRISPR-Cas gene editing

DL Wagner, U Koehl, M Chmielewski… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
T cells modified for expression of Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs) were the first gene-
modified cell products approved for use in cancer immunotherapy. CAR-T cells engineered …

Mitigation of chromosome loss in clinical CRISPR-Cas9-engineered T cells

CA Tsuchida, N Brandes, R Bueno, M Trinidad… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has enabled advanced T cell therapies, but occasional loss
of the targeted chromosome remains a safety concern. To investigate whether Cas9-induced …

Peptide-mediated delivery of CRISPR enzymes for the efficient editing of primary human lymphocytes

DV Foss, JJ Muldoon, DN Nguyen, D Carr… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-mediated genome editing of primary human lymphocytes is typically carried out via
electroporation, which can be cytotoxic, cumbersome and costly. Here we show that the …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the genetic landscape of DNA double-strand break repair

JA Hussmann, J Ling, P Ravisankar, J Yan… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cells repair DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) through a complex set of pathways critical for
maintaining genomic integrity. To systematically map these pathways, we developed a high …

Endowing universal CAR T-cell with immune-evasive properties using TALEN-gene editing

S Jo, S Das, A Williams, AS Chretien… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Universal CAR T-cell therapies are poised to revolutionize cancer treatment and to improve
patient outcomes. However, realizing these advantages in an allogeneic setting requires …

Cas9 exo-endonuclease eliminates chromosomal translocations during genome editing

J Yin, R Lu, C Xin, Y Wang, X Ling, D Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The mechanism underlying unwanted structural variations induced by CRISPR-Cas9
remains poorly understood, and no effective strategy is available to inhibit the generation of …

AsCas12a ultra nuclease facilitates the rapid generation of therapeutic cell medicines

L Zhang, JA Zuris, R Viswanathan, JN Edelstein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Though AsCas12a fills a crucial gap in the current genome editing toolbox, it exhibits
relatively poor editing efficiency, restricting its overall utility. Here we isolate an engineered …

A highly efficient transgene knock-in technology in clinically relevant cell types

AG Allen, SQ Khan, CM Margulies… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Inefficient knock-in of transgene cargos limits the potential of cell-based medicines. In this
study, we used a CRISPR nuclease that targets a site within an exon of an essential gene …

Combining different CRISPR nucleases for simultaneous knock-in and base editing prevents translocations in multiplex-edited CAR T cells

V Glaser, C Flugel, J Kath, W Du, V Drosdek, C Franke… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Multiple genetic modifications may be required to develop potent off-the-shelf
chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies. Conventional CRISPR-Cas nucleases …