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 …

Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

Therapeutic targets and biomarkers of tumor immunotherapy: response versus non-response

DR Wang, XL Wu, YL Sun - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Cancers are highly complex diseases that are characterized by not only the overgrowth of
malignant cells but also an altered immune response. The inhibition and reprogramming of …

Overcoming on-target, off-tumour toxicity of CAR T cell therapy for solid tumours

CL Flugel, RG Majzner, G Krenciute, G Dotti… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Therapies with genetically modified T cells that express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
specific for CD19 or B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) are approved to treat certain B cell …

CAR T cells with dual targeting of CD19 and CD22 in adult patients with recurrent or refractory B cell malignancies: a phase 1 trial

JY Spiegel, S Patel, L Muffly, NM Hossain, J Oak… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite impressive progress, more than 50% of patients treated with CD19-targeting
chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR19) experience progressive disease. Ten of 16 …

Anti-GD2 CAR-NKT cells in relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma: updated phase 1 trial interim results

A Heczey, X Xu, AN Courtney, G Tian, GA Barragan… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Vα24-invariant natural killer T cells (NKTs) have anti-tumor properties that can be enhanced
by chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). Here we report updated interim results from the first-in …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …

Genome-wide CRISPR screens of T cell exhaustion identify chromatin remodeling factors that limit T cell persistence

JA Belk, W Yao, N Ly, KA Freitas, YT Chen, Q Shi… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
T cell exhaustion limits antitumor immunity, but the molecular determinants of this process
remain poorly understood. Using a chronic stimulation assay, we performed genome-wide …

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 …

Improving CAR-T immunotherapy: overcoming the challenges of T cell exhaustion

D Gumber, LD Wang - EBioMedicine, 2022 - thelancet.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has emerged as a cancer treatment with
enormous potential, demonstrating impressive antitumor activity in the treatment of …