Recent advances and discoveries in the mechanisms and functions of CAR T cells

RC Larson, MV Maus - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
This Review discusses the major advances and changes made over the past 3 years to our
understanding of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell efficacy and safety. Recently, the …

Viral vector platforms within the gene therapy landscape

JT Bulcha, Y Wang, H Ma, PWL Tai… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Throughout its 40-year history, the field of gene therapy has been marked by many
transitions. It has seen great strides in combating human disease, has given hope to patients …

Rapid manufacturing of non-activated potent CAR T cells

S Ghassemi, JS Durgin, S Nunez-Cruz… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
Chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells can generate durable clinical responses in B-cell
haematologic malignancies. The manufacturing of these T cells typically involves their …

Parallel analysis of transcription, integration, and sequence of single HIV-1 proviruses

KB Einkauf, MR Osborn, C Gao, W Sun, X Sun, X Lian… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
HIV-1-infected cells that persist despite antiretroviral therapy (ART) are frequently
considered" transcriptionally silent," but active viral gene expression may occur in some …

The latent reservoir of inducible, infectious HIV-1 does not decrease despite decades of antiretroviral therapy

NF McMyn, J Varriale, EJ Fray, C Zitzmann… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - jci.org
HIV-1 persists in a latent reservoir in resting CD4+ T cells despite antiretroviral therapy
(ART). The reservoir decays slowly over the first 7 years of ART (t 1/2= 44 months). However …

Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1

C Jiang, X Lian, C Gao, X Sun, KB Einkauf… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Sustained, drug-free control of HIV-1 replication is naturally achieved in less than 0.5% of
infected individuals (here termed 'elite controllers'), despite the presence of a replication …

The past, present, and future of non-viral CAR T cells

A Moretti, M Ponzo, CA Nicolette… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive transfer of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T lymphocytes is a powerful technology
that has revolutionized the way we conceive immunotherapy. The impressive clinical results …

Regulatory activities of transposable elements: from conflicts to benefits

EB Chuong, NC Elde, C Feschotte - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Transposable elements (TEs) are a prolific source of tightly regulated, biochemically active
non-coding elements, such as transcription factor-binding sites and non-coding RNAs. Many …

CAR-T cells: the long and winding road to solid tumors

MM D'Aloia, IG Zizzari, B Sacchetti, L Pierelli… - Cell death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Adoptive cell therapy of solid tumors with reprogrammed T cells can be considered the “next
generation” of cancer hallmarks. CAR-T cells fail to be as effective as in liquid tumors for the …

Optimized CRISPR guide RNA design for two high-fidelity Cas9 variants by deep learning

D Wang, C Zhang, B Wang, B Li, Q Wang, D Liu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Highly specific Cas9 nucleases derived from SpCas9 are valuable tools for genome editing,
but their wide applications are hampered by a lack of knowledge governing guide RNA …