The past, present, and future of non-viral CAR T cells

A Moretti, M Ponzo, CA Nicolette… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive transfer of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T lymphocytes is a powerful technology
that has revolutionized the way we conceive immunotherapy. The impressive clinical results …

Integration site selection by retroviruses and transposable elements in eukaryotes

T Sultana, A Zamborlini, G Cristofari… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Transposable elements and retroviruses are found in most genomes, can be pathogenic
and are widely used as gene-delivery and functional genomics tools. Exploring whether …

Comprehensive Essentiality Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome via Saturating Transposon Mutagenesis

MA DeJesus, ER Gerrick, W Xu, SW Park, JE Long… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
For decades, identifying the regions of a bacterial chromosome that are necessary for
viability has relied on mapping integration sites in libraries of random transposon mutants to …

Molecular evolution of a novel hyperactive Sleeping Beauty transposase enables robust stable gene transfer in vertebrates

L Mátés, MKL Chuah, E Belay, B Jerchow, N Manoj… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Abstract The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon is a promising technology platform for gene
transfer in vertebrates; however, its efficiency of gene insertion can be a bottleneck in …

Enhanced CAR T-cell engineering using non-viral Sleeping Beauty transposition from minicircle vectors

R Monjezi, C Miskey, T Gogishvili, M Schleef… - Leukemia, 2017 - nature.com
Immunotherapy with T cell modified with gamma-retroviral or lentiviral (LV) vectors to
express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) has shown remarkable efficacy in clinical trials …

DNA transposons: nature and applications in genomics

M Muñoz-López, JL García-Pérez - Current genomics, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Repeated DNA makes up a large fraction of a typical mammalian genome, and some
repetitive elements are able to move within the genome (transposons and retrotransposons) …

Contemporary Transposon Tools: A Review and Guide through Mechanisms and Applications of Sleeping Beauty, piggyBac and Tol2 for Genome Engineering

N Sandoval-Villegas, W Nurieva, M Amberger… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Transposons are mobile genetic elements evolved to execute highly efficient integration of
their genes into the genomes of their host cells. These natural DNA transfer vehicles have …

PiggyBac transposon-mediated gene transfer in human cells

MH Wilson, CJ Coates, AL George - Molecular therapy, 2007 - cell.com
Transposons are mobile genetic elements that can be used to integrate transgenes into host
cell genomes. The piggyBac transposon system has been used for transgenesis of insects …

Transposon-mediated genome manipulation in vertebrates

Z Ivics, MA Li, L Mátés, JD Boeke, A Nagy, A Bradley… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Transposable elements are DNA segments with the unique ability to move about in the
genome. This inherent feature can be exploited to harness these elements as gene vectors …

Gene transfer into genomes of human cells by the sleeping beauty transposon system

AM Geurts, Y Yang, KJ Clark, G Liu, Z Cui, AJ Dupuy… - Molecular Therapy, 2003 - cell.com
Abstract The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system, derived from teleost fish sequences,
is extremely effective at delivering DNA to vertebrate genomes, including those of humans …