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 …

CAR-T cell therapy in triple-negative breast cancer: Hunting the invisible devil

F Nasiri, M Kazemi, SMJ Mirarefin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is known as the most intricate and hard-to-treat
subtype of breast cancer. TNBC cells do not express the well-known estrogen receptor …

Tuning charge density of chimeric antigen receptor optimizes tonic signaling and CAR-T cell fitness

J Chen, S Qiu, W Li, K Wang, Y Zhang, H Yang, B Liu… - Cell research, 2023 - nature.com
Tonic signaling of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), ie, the spontaneous CAR activation in
the absence of tumor antigen stimulation, is considered to be a pivotal event controlling CAR …

Dual-targeting CAR-T cells with optimal co-stimulation and metabolic fitness enhance antitumor activity and prevent escape in solid tumors

K Hirabayashi, H Du, Y Xu, P Shou, X Zhou, G Fucá… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells showed great activity in hematologic malignancies.
However, heterogeneous antigen expression in tumor cells and suboptimal CAR-T-cell …

CAR-T cell potency: from structural elements to vector backbone components

M Mazinani, F Rahbarizadeh - Biomarker research, 2022 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, in which a patient's own T lymphocytes are
engineered to recognize and kill cancer cells, has achieved remarkable success in some …

Site-specific transgene integration in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies

H Dabiri, P Safarzadeh Kozani, M Habibi Anbouhi… - Biomarker …, 2023 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells and natural killer (NK) cells are genetically
engineered immune cells that can detect target antigens on the surface of target cells and …

ALPL-1 is a target for chimeric antigen receptor therapy in osteosarcoma

N Mensali, H Köksal, S Joaquina, P Wernhoff… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Osteosarcoma (OS) remains a dismal malignancy in children and young adults, with poor
outcome for metastatic and recurrent disease. Immunotherapies in OS are not as promising …

IL-12 reprograms CAR-expressing natural killer T cells to long-lived Th1-polarized cells with potent antitumor activity

E Landoni, MG Woodcock, G Barragan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Human natural killer T cells (NKTs) are innate-like T lymphocytes increasingly used for
cancer immunotherapy. Here we show that human NKTs expressing the pro-inflammatory …

T-cells engineered with a novel VHH-based chimeric antigen receptor against CD19 exhibit comparable tumoricidal efficacy to their FMC63-based counterparts

F Nasiri, P Safarzadeh Kozani… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has established itself as a
potent therapeutic option for certain patients with relapsed/refractory (R/R) hematologic …

In like a lamb; out like a lion: marching CAR T cells toward enhanced efficacy in B-ALL

P Safarzadeh Kozani, P Safarzadeh Kozani… - Molecular cancer …, 2021 - AACR
Combining synthetic biology with adoptive T-cell transfer has led to promising advances in
the treatment of relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (R/R B-ALL), diffuse …