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 …

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 …

T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Regulatory T cells and human disease

S Sakaguchi, N Mikami, JB Wing… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Naturally occurring CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs), which specifically express the
transcription factor FoxP3 in the nucleus and CD25 and CTLA-4 on the cell surface, are a …

Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In …

Next-generation regulatory T cell therapy

LMR Ferreira, YD Muller, JA Bluestone… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are a small subset of immune cells that are dedicated to
curbing excessive immune activation and maintaining immune homeostasis. Accordingly …

CAR-based therapies: opportunities for immuno-medicine beyond cancer

H Aghajanian, JG Rurik, JA Epstein - Nature metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
One of the most exciting new therapies for cancer involves the use of autologous T cells that
are engineered to recognize and destroy cancerous cells. Patients with previously …

Tregs with an MHC class II peptide–specific chimeric antigen receptor prevent autoimmune diabetes in mice

JA Spanier, V Fung, CM Wardell… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Adoptive immunotherapy with Tregs is a promising approach for preventing or treating type
1 diabetes. Islet antigen–specific Tregs have more potent therapeutic effects than polyclonal …

Use of cell and genome modification technologies to generate improved “off-the-shelf” CAR T and CAR NK cells

MA Morgan, H Büning, M Sauer… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The broad success of adoptive immunotherapy to treat human cancer has resulted in a
paradigm shift in modern medicine. Modification of autologous and allogenic immune cells …

Genetic engineering of T cells for immunotherapy

GI Ellis, NC Sheppard, JL Riley - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Genetically engineered T cell immunotherapies have provided remarkable clinical success
to treat B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia by harnessing a patient's own T cells to kill …