The pharmacology of second-generation chimeric antigen receptors

SJC Van Der Stegen, M Hamieh… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2015 - nature.com
Second-generation chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) retarget and reprogramme T cells to
augment their antitumour efficacy. The combined activating and co-stimulatory domains …

CD137 (4-1BB)-based cancer immunotherapy on its 25th anniversary

I Melero, MF Sanmamed, J Glez-Vaz, C Luri-Rey… - Cancer Discovery, 2023 - AACR
Twenty-five years ago, we reported that agonist anti-CD137 monoclonal antibodies
eradicated transplanted mouse tumors because of enhanced CD8+ T-cell antitumor …

Engineered off-the-shelf therapeutic T cells resist host immune rejection

F Mo, N Watanabe, MK McKenna, MJ Hicks… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Engineered T cells are effective therapies against a range of malignancies, but current
approaches rely on autologous T cells, which are difficult and expensive to manufacture …

4-1BB agonists: multi-potent potentiators of tumor immunity

T Bartkowiak, MA Curran - Frontiers in oncology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy is a rapidly expanding field of oncology aimed at targeting, not the tumor
itself, but the immune system combating the cancerous lesion. Of the many approaches …

Optimization of 4-1BB antibody for cancer immunotherapy by balancing agonistic strength with FcγR affinity

X Qi, F Li, Y Wu, C Cheng, P Han, J Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Costimulation of T cell responses with monoclonal antibody agonists (mAb-AG) targeting 4-
1BB showed robust anti-tumor activity in preclinical models, but their clinical development …

Stimulation of natural killer cells with a CD137-specific antibody enhances trastuzumab efficacy in xenotransplant models of breast cancer

HE Kohrt, R Houot, K Weiskopf… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Trastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
(HER2; also known as HER-2/neu), is indicated for the treatment of women with either early …

Engineered exosomes for studies in tumor immunology

A Alptekin, M Parvin, HI Chowdhury… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Exosomes are a type of extracellular vesicle (EV) with diameters of 30–150 nm secreted by
most of the cells into the extracellular spaces and can alter the microenvironment through …

Human γδ T lymphocytes induce robust NK cell–mediated antitumor cytotoxicity through CD137 engagement

A Maniar, X Zhang, W Lin, BR Gastman… - Blood, The Journal …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate effector lymphocytes that control the growth of major
histocompatibility complex class I negative tumors. We show here that γδ T lymphocytes …

Targeting CD137 enhances the efficacy of cetuximab

HE Kohrt, AD Colevas, R Houot… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Treatment with cetuximab, an EGFR-targeting IgG1 mAb, results in beneficial, yet limited,
clinical improvement for patients with head and neck (HN) cancer as well as colorectal …

CD137 stimulation enhances the antilymphoma activity of anti-CD20 antibodies

HE Kohrt, R Houot, MJ Goldstein… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC), which is largely mediated by natural
killer (NK) cells, is thought to play an important role in the efficacy of rituximab, an anti-CD20 …