The Contribution of the Minimal Promoter Element to the Activity of Synthetic Promoters Mediating CAR Expression in the Tumor Microenvironment

Y Greenshpan, O Sharabi, KM Yegodayev… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Harnessing immune effector cells to benefit cancer patients is becoming more and more
prevalent in recent years. However, the increasing number of different therapeutic …

Synthetic promoters to induce immune-effectors into the tumor microenvironment

Y Greenshpan, O Sharabi, A Ottolenghi… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Harnessing the immune-system to eradicate cancer is becoming a reality in recent years.
Engineered immune cells, such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, are facing the …

Functional analysis of an inducible promoter driven by activation signals from a chimeric antigen receptor

R Uchibori, T Teruya, H Ido, K Ohmine, Y Sehara… - Molecular Therapy …, 2019 - cell.com
Adoptive transfer of T cells expressing a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) is a promising cell-
based anticancer therapy. Although clinical studies of this approach show therapeutic …

High throughput screen for the improvement of inducible promoters for tumor microenvironment cues

O Sharabi, Y Greenshpan, N Ofir, A Ottolenghi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapies are highly potent and are gaining wide clinical usage. However,
severe side effects require focusing effector immune cell activities on the tumor …

Titratable pharmacological regulation of CAR T cells using zinc finger-based transcription factors

B Kotter, F Engert, W Krueger, A Roy, WA Rawashdeh… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy can be associated with
substantial side effects primarily due to intense immune activation following treatment, or …

[HTML][HTML] Expression of inducible factors reprograms CAR-T cells for enhanced function and safety

A Smole, A Benton, MA Poussin, MA Eiva… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Despite the success of CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy, challenges in efficacy and safety
remain. Investigators have begun to enhance CAR-T cells with the expression of accessory …

A systems and computational biology perspective on advancing CAR therapy

V Tserunyan, SD Finley - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In the recent decades, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy signaled a new
revolutionary approach to cancer treatment. This method seeks to engineer immune cells …

CAR-T: a potential gene carrier targeting solid tumor immune microenvironment

M Wang, C Zhang, X Jiang - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2021 - nature.com
A recent study published in Cell by Lexus et al. presented CAR-T cell as a carrier that could
secrete extracellular vesicles (EVs) containing immunostimulatory RNA RN7SL1, which …

Armored CAR T-cells: the next chapter in T-cell cancer immunotherapy

ER Hawkins, RR D'Souza… - Biologics: Targets and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy engineers T-cells to express a synthetic
receptor which redirects effector function to the tumor, to improve efficacy and reduce …

Engineering T cell function using chimeric antigen receptors identified using a DNA library approach

CPM Duong, JA Westwood, CSM Yong, A Murphy… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Genetic engineering of cellular function holds much promise for the treatment of a variety of
diseases including gene deficiencies and cancer. However, engineering the full …