Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

CAR immune cells: design principles, resistance and the next generation

L Labanieh, CL Mackall - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The remarkable clinical activity of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies in B cell and
plasma cell malignancies has validated the use of this therapeutic class for liquid cancers …

Frequent aneuploidy in primary human T cells after CRISPR–Cas9 cleavage

AD Nahmad, E Reuveni, E Goldschmidt, T Tenne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple clinical trials of allogeneic T cell therapy use site-specific nucleases to disrupt T cell
receptor (TCR) and other genes,,,,–. In this study, using single-cell RNA sequencing, we …

High-yield genome engineering in primary cells using a hybrid ssDNA repair template and small-molecule cocktails

BR Shy, VS Vykunta, A Ha, A Talbot, TL Roth… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Enhancing CRISPR-mediated site-specific transgene insertion efficiency by homology-
directed repair (HDR) using high concentrations of double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) with …

The future of engineered immune cell therapies

DJ Irvine, MV Maus, DJ Mooney, WW Wong - Science, 2022 - science.org
Immune cells are being engineered to recognize and respond to disease states, acting as a
“living drug” when transferred into patients. Therapies based on engineered immune cells …

T cell receptor therapeutics: immunological targeting of the intracellular cancer proteome

CA Klebanoff, SS Chandran, BM Baker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
The T cell receptor (TCR) complex is a naturally occurring antigen sensor that detects,
amplifies and coordinates cellular immune responses to epitopes derived from cell surface …

Programming CAR T cell tumor recognition: tuned antigen sensing and logic gating

M Hamieh, J Mansilla-Soto, I Rivière, M Sadelain - Cancer Discovery, 2023 - AACR
The success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting B-cell malignancies
propelled the field of synthetic immunology and raised hopes to treat solid tumors in a …

Cooperative CAR targeting to selectively eliminate AML and minimize escape

S Haubner, J Mansilla-Soto, S Nataraj, F Kogel… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) poses a singular challenge for chimeric antigen receptor
(CAR) therapy owing to its phenotypic heterogeneity and similarity to normal hematopoietic …

Generation of T-cell-receptor-negative CD8αβ-positive CAR T cells from T-cell-derived induced pluripotent stem cells

SJC van der Stegen, PL Lindenbergh… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
The production of autologous T cells expressing a chimaeric antigen receptor (CAR) is time-
consuming, costly and occasionally unsuccessful. T-cell-derived induced pluripotent stem …

Advancing cell-based cancer immunotherapy through stem cell engineering

YR Li, ZS Dunn, Y Yu, M Li, P Wang, L Yang - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Advances in cell-based therapy, particularly CAR-T cell therapy, have transformed the
treatment of hematological malignancies. Although an important step forward for the field …