The immunology of systemic lupus erythematosus

GC Tsokos - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) has been a great challenge. Reductionist approaches to understand …

Enhancing the safety of CAR-T cell therapy: Synthetic genetic switch for spatiotemporal control

L Lu, M Xie, B Yang, W Zhao, J Cao - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a promising and precise targeted
therapy for cancer that has demonstrated notable potential in clinical applications. However …

The underlying mechanism of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy triggering secondary T-cell cancers: Mystery of the Sphinx?

Z Zhou, G Zhang, Y Xu, S Yang, J Wang, Z Li, F Peng… - Cancer Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported cases of T-cell
malignancies, including CAR-positive lymphomas, in patients receiving B cell maturation …

Blood DNA virome associates with autoimmune diseases and COVID-19

N Sasa, S Kojima, R Koide, T Hasegawa… - Nature Genetics, 2025 - nature.com
Aberrant immune responses to viral pathogens contribute to pathogenesis, but our
understanding of pathological immune responses caused by viruses within the human …

Human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) reactivation after hematopoietic cell transplant and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy: a shifting landscape

E Kampouri, G Handley, JA Hill - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
HHV-6B reactivation affects approximately half of all allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant
(HCT) recipients. HHV-6B is the most frequent infectious cause of encephalitis following …

Human herpesvirus 6 reactivation and disease are infrequent in chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy recipients

E Kampouri, EM Krantz, H Xie, SS Ibrahimi, ES Kiem… - Blood, 2024 - ashpublications.org
Abstract Human herpesvirus 6B (HHV-6B) reactivation and disease are increasingly
reported after chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy (CARTx). HHV-6 reactivation in …

Reactivation of a transplant recipient's inherited human herpesvirus 6 and implications to the graft

L Hannolainen, L Pyöriä, D Pratas, J Lohi… - The Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background The implications of inherited chromosomally integrated human herpesvirus 6
(iciHHV-6) in solid organ transplantation remain uncertain. Although this trait has been …

Improving the safety of CAR‐T‐cell therapy: The risk and prevention of viral infection for patients with relapsed or refractory B‐cell lymphoma undergoing CAR‐T‐cell …

H Qian, X Yang, T Zhang, P Zou… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T‐cell therapy, an innovative immunotherapeutic against
relapsed/refractory B‐cell lymphoma, faces challenges due to frequent viral infections …

Overview of infectious complications among CAR T-cell therapy recipients

S Arya, Z Shahid - Frontiers in Oncology, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell (CAR T-cell) therapy has revolutionized the
management of hematological malignancies. In addition to impressive malignancy-related …

Safety and activity of CTX130, a CD70-targeted allogeneic CRISPR-Cas9-engineered CAR T-cell therapy, in patients with relapsed or refractory T-cell malignancies …

SP Iyer, RA Sica, PJ Ho, A Prica, J Zain… - The Lancet …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Background Effective treatment options are scarce for relapsed or refractory T-cell
lymphoma. This study assesses the safety and activity of CTX130 (volamcabtagene …