Engineered cellular immunotherapies in cancer and beyond

AV Finck, T Blanchard, CP Roselle, G Golinelli… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
This year marks the tenth anniversary of cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-
modified T cells for refractory leukemia. The widespread commercial approval of genetically …

CAR-NK cells: A promising cellular immunotherapy for cancer

G Xie, H Dong, Y Liang, JD Ham, R Rizwan, J Chen - EBioMedicine, 2020 - thelancet.com
Natural Killer (NK) cells and CD8+ cytotoxic T cells are two types of immune cells that can
kill target cells through similar cytotoxic mechanisms. With the remarkable success of …

Harnessing natural killer cells for cancer immunotherapy: dispatching the first responders

NA Maskalenko, D Zhigarev… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells have crucial roles in the innate immunosurveillance of cancer and
viral infections. They are 'first responders' that can spontaneously recognize abnormal cells …

The emergence of natural killer cells as a major target in cancer immunotherapy

F Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes, J Cursons… - Trends in …, 2019 - cell.com
Immune 'checkpoint'inhibitors can increase the activity of tumor-resident cytotoxic
lymphocytes and have revolutionized cancer treatment. Current therapies block inhibitory …

CAR-NK cells: from natural basis to design for kill

MB Khawar, H Sun - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are fusion proteins with an extracellular antigen
recognition domain and numerous intracellular signaling domains that have been …

From CAR-T cells to CAR-NK cells: a developing immunotherapy method for hematological malignancies

H Lu, X Zhao, Z Li, Y Hu, H Wang - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The approval of CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T (CAR-T) cell products
in B-cell malignancies represents a breakthrough in CAR-T cell immunotherapy. However …

CAR-T and CAR-NK as cellular cancer immunotherapy for solid tumors

L Peng, G Sferruzza, L Yang, L Zhou… - Cellular & Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
In the past decade, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has emerged as a
promising immunotherapeutic approach for combating cancers, demonstrating remarkable …

Engineering NK cells for CAR therapy—recent advances in gene transfer methodology

P Schmidt, MJ Raftery, G Pecher - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The development of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has introduced a new
and effective strategy to guide and promote the immune response against tumors in the …

Chimeric antigen receptor therapy meets mRNA technology

J Wu, W Wu, B Zhou, B Li - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024 - cell.com
Genetically engineered immune cells expressing chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have
emerged as a new game changer in cancer immunotherapy. The utility of CAR T cell therapy …

Understanding NK cell biology for harnessing NK cell therapies: targeting cancer and beyond

E Shin, SH Bak, T Park, JW Kim, SR Yoon… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Gene-engineered immune cell therapies have partially transformed cancer treatment, as
exemplified by the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells in certain hematologic …