Synthetic Gene Circuits for Regulation of Next‐Generation Cell‐Based Therapeutics

AP Teixeira, M Fussenegger - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Arming human cells with synthetic gene circuits enables to expand their capacity to execute
superior sensing and response actions, offering tremendous potential for innovative cellular …

Therapeutic tactics for targeting B lymphocytes in autoimmunity and cancer

SM Wemlinger, JC Cambier - European Journal of Immunology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
B lymphocytes have become a very popular therapeutic target in a number of autoimmune
indications due to their newly appreciated roles, and approachability, in these diseases …

SEC-seq: association of molecular signatures with antibody secretion in thousands of single human plasma cells

RYH Cheng, J de Rutte, CEK Ito, AR Ott… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The secreted products of cells drive many functions in vivo; however, methods to link this
functional information to surface markers and transcriptomes have been lacking. By …

Evolution of molecular switches for regulation of transgene expression by clinically licensed gluconate

AP Teixeira, S Xue, J Huang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic biology holds great promise to improve the safety and efficacy of future gene and
engineered cell therapies by providing new means of endogenous or exogenous control of …

Design and deep learning of synthetic B-cell-specific promoters

ZH Fu, SZ He, Y Wu, GR Zhao - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic biology and deep learning synergistically revolutionize our ability for decoding and
recoding DNA regulatory grammar. The B-cell-specific transcriptional regulation is intricate …

BCR signaling is required for posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease in immunodeficient mice receiving human B cells

T Zhang, RYH Cheng, AR Ott, NP Dahl… - Science Translational …, 2024 - science.org
Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) is a major therapeutic challenge that has
been difficult to study using human cells because of a lack of suitable models for …

A lentiviral vector B cell gene therapy platform for the delivery of the anti-HIV-1 eCD4-Ig-knob-in-hole-reversed immunoadhesin

E Vamva, S Ozog, DP Leaman, RYH Cheng… - … Therapy Methods & …, 2023 - cell.com
Barriers to effective gene therapy for many diseases include the number of modified target
cells required to achieve therapeutic outcomes and host immune responses to expressed …

Adenoviral vectors infect B lymphocytes in vivo

PJ Rice-Boucher, SA Mendonça, AB Alvarez, AJ Sturtz… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
B cells are the antibody-producing arm of the adaptive immune system and play a critical
role in controlling pathogens. Several groups have now demonstrated the feasibility of using …

Human plasma cells engineered to secrete bispecifics drive effective in vivo leukemia killing

TF Hill, P Narvekar, GD Asher, JN Edelstein, ND Camp… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Bispecific antibodies are an important tool for the management and treatment of acute
leukemias. As a next step toward clinical translation of engineered plasma cells, we …

Development of KoRV-pseudotyped lentiviral vectors for efficient gene transfer into freshly isolated immune cells

A Renner, A Stahringer, KE Ruppel, S Fricke, U Koehl… - Gene Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Allogeneic cell therapies, such as those involving macrophages or Natural Killer (NK) cells,
are of increasing interest for cancer immunotherapy. However, the current techniques for …