A new era of macrophage-based cell therapy

YR Na, SW Kim, SH Seok - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Macrophages are essential innate immune cells found throughout the body that have
protective and pathogenic functions in many diseases. When activated, macrophages can …

[HTML][HTML] Current and future concepts for the generation and application of genetically engineered CAR-T and TCR-T cells

M Hiltensperger, AM Krackhardt - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has seen a steep rise of new therapeutic approaches in its
immune-oncology pipeline over the last years. This is in great part due to the recent …

CD19 CAR antigen engagement mechanisms and affinity tuning

C He, J Mansilla-Soto, N Khanra, M Hamieh… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy relies on T cells that are guided by synthetic
receptors to target and lyse cancer cells. CARs bind to cell surface antigens through an scFv …

Biomaterials-mediated engineering of the immune system

C Backlund, S Jalili-Firoozinezhad… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Modulation of the immune system is an important therapeutic strategy in a wide range of
diseases, and is fundamental to the development of vaccines. However, optimally safe and …

Breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy: an overview of T cell, NK cell, Mφ, and DC-based treatments

S Lee, TD Kim - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Efforts to treat cancer using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T therapy have made
astonishing progress and clinical trials against hematopoietic malignancies have …

The role of macrophages-mediated communications among cell compositions of tumor microenvironment in cancer progression

M Li, P Jiang, S Wei, J Wang, C Li - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recent studies have revealed that tumor-associated macrophages are the most abundant
stromal cells in the tumor microenvironment and play an important role in tumor initiation …

A systematic framework for predictive biomarkers in immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome

OH Butt, AY Zhou, BM Ances, JF DiPersio… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has revolutionized the management of
several life-threatening malignancies, often achieving durable sustained responses. The …

Fully closed cell sorter for immune cell therapy manufacturing

M Matsumoto, S Tashiro, T Ito, K Takahashi… - … Therapy-Methods & …, 2023 - cell.com
By analyzing patients treated with adoptive immune cell therapies, various immune cell
phenotypes have been found in the starting and infused materials as determinants of …

Enzyme‐activatable polypeptide for plasma membrane disruption and antitumor immunity elicitation

J Liu, RS Li, L Zhang, J Wang, Q Dong, Z Xu, Y Kang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enzyme‐instructed self‐assembly of bioactive molecules into nanobundles inside cells is
conceived to potentially disrupt plasma membrane and subcellular structure. Herein, an …

Remote control of cellular immunotherapy

K Huang, L Liu, Y Huang, Y Wang, Y Zhou… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy is emerging as a powerful tool for
cancer treatment. However, the clinical application of CAR T cell therapy remains limited …