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 …

The evolution of synthetic receptor systems

J Manhas, HI Edelstein, JN Leonard… - Nature chemical biology, 2022 - nature.com
Receptors enable cells to detect, process and respond to information about their
environments. Over the past two decades, synthetic biologists have repurposed physical …

Immunogenicity of CAR-T cell therapeutics: evidence, mechanism and mitigation

AN Khan, A Chowdhury, A Karulkar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy demonstrated remarkable success in long-
term remission of cancers and other autoimmune diseases. Currently, six products (Kymriah …

Engineering programmable material-to-cell pathways via synthetic notch receptors to spatially control differentiation in multicellular constructs

M Garibyan, T Hoffman, T Makaske, SK Do… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Synthetic Notch (synNotch) receptors are genetically encoded, modular synthetic receptors
that enable mammalian cells to detect environmental signals and respond by activating user …

Control of the antitumour activity and specificity of CAR T cells via organic adapters covalently tethering the CAR to tumour cells

AV Stepanov, J **e, Q Zhu, Z Shen, W Su… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
On-target off-tumour toxicity limits the anticancer applicability of chimaeric antigen receptor
(CAR) T cells. Here we show that the tumour-targeting specificity and activity of T cells with a …

Therapeutic cell engineering: designing programmable synthetic genetic circuits in mammalian cells

M Mansouri, M Fussenegger - Protein & Cell, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cell therapy approaches that employ engineered mammalian cells for on-demand
production of therapeutic agents in the patient's body are moving beyond proof-of-concept in …

Synnotch-programmed macrophages for cancerous cell detection and sensing

T Wang, CH Lau, N Wang, J Li, J Wang, Z Huang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Synthetic Notch (synNotch) receptors have enabled mammalian cells to sense extracellular
ligands and respond by activating user-prescribed transcriptional programs. Based on the …

Universal CAR 2.0 to overcome current limitations in CAR therapy

LS Schlegel, C Werbrouck, M Boettcher… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has effectively complemented the treatment
of advanced relapsed and refractory hematological cancers. The remarkable achievements …

ReCARving the future: bridging CAR T-cell therapy gaps with synthetic biology, engineering, and economic insights

A Ali, JF DiPersio - Frontiers in immunology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has revolutionized the treatment of
hematologic malignancies, offering remarkable remission rates in otherwise refractory …

Tuning CARs: recent advances in modulating chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell activity for improved safety, efficacy, and flexibility

P Celichowski, M Turi, S Charvátová… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Springer
Cancer immunotherapies utilizing genetically engineered T cells have emerged as powerful
personalized therapeutic agents showing dramatic preclinical and clinical results …