Programming CAR-T cells to kill cancer

L Labanieh, RG Majzner, CL Mackall - Nature biomedical engineering, 2018 - nature.com
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that are specific for tumour
antigens have led to high complete response rates in patients with haematologic …

New development in CAR-T cell therapy

Z Wang, Z Wu, Y Liu, W Han - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2017 - Springer
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cells (CAR-T cells) have yielded
unprecedented efficacy in B cell malignancies, most remarkably in anti-CD19 CAR-T cells …

Adoptive cell therapy targeting neoantigens: a frontier for cancer research

Z Wang, YJ Cao - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) is a kind of immunotherapy in which T cells are genetically
modified to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or T cell receptor (TCR), and ACT …

Applications of synthetic biology in medical and pharmaceutical fields

X Yan, X Liu, C Zhao, GQ Chen - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic biology aims to design or assemble existing bioparts or bio-components for useful
bioproperties. During the past decades, progresses have been made to build delicate …

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 …

Control of the antitumour activity and specificity of CAR T cells via organic adapters covalently tethering the CAR to tumour cells

AV Stepanov, J Xie, Q Zhu, Z Shen, W Su… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
On-target off-tumour toxicity limits the anticancer applicability of chimaeric antigen receptor
(CAR) T cells. Here we show that the tumour-targeting specificity and activity of T cells with a …

Antibody and antibody fragments for cancer immunotherapy

W Chen, Y Yuan, X Jiang - Journal of Controlled Release, 2020 - Elsevier
Antibody has become the most rapidly expanding class of pharmaceuticals for treating a
wide variety of human diseases including cancers. Especially, with the fast development of …

Switchable CAR-T cells mediate remission in metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

D Raj, MH Yang, D Rodgers, EN Hampton, J Begum… - Gut, 2019 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a disease of unmet medical need.
While immunotherapy with chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells has shown much …

Genetic code expansion: inception, development, commercialization

M Manandhar, E Chun… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Virtually all natural proteins are built from only 20 amino acids, and while this makes
possible all the functions they perform, the ability to encode other amino acids selected for …

Spatiotemporal control of CRISPR/Cas9 function in cells and zebrafish using light‐activated guide RNA

W Zhou, W Brown, A Bardhan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We developed a new method for the conditional regulation of CRISPR/Cas9 activity in
mammalian cells and zebrafish embryos using photochemically activated, caged guide …