Engineering living therapeutics with synthetic biology

A Cubillos-Ruiz, T Guo, A Sokolovska… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
The steadfast advance of the synthetic biology field has enabled scientists to use genetically
engineered cells, instead of small molecules or biologics, as the basis for the development …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering CAR-T cells for next-generation cancer therapy

M Hong, JD Clubb, YY Chen - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with tumor specificity have
shown remarkable success in treating patients with hematologic malignancies and …

Mechanisms of resistance to CAR T cell therapy

NN Shah, TJ Fry - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2019 - nature.com
The successes with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in early clinical trials
involving patients with pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) or B cell lymphomas …

T cell-engaging therapies—BiTEs and beyond

ME Goebeler, RC Bargou - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2020 - nature.com
Immuno-oncology approaches have entered clinical practice, with tremendous progress
particularly in the field of T cell-engaging therapies over the past decade. Herein, we provide …

Tumor antigen escape from CAR T-cell therapy

RG Majzner, CL Mackall - Cancer discovery, 2018 - AACR
Emerging data from chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell trials in B-cell malignancies
demonstrate that a common mechanism of resistance to this novel class of therapeutics is …

The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

CAR T-Cell-Based gene therapy for cancers: new perspectives, challenges, and clinical developments

MP Jogalekar, RL Rajendran, F Khan… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is a progressive new pillar in immune cell
therapy for cancer. It has yielded remarkable clinical responses in patients with B-cell …

Induction of resistance to chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy by transduction of a single leukemic B cell

M Ruella, J Xu, DM Barrett, JA Fraietta, TJ Reich… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
We report a patient relapsing 9 months after CD19-targeted CAR T cell (CTL019) infusion
with CD19–leukemia that aberrantly expressed the anti-CD19 CAR. The CAR gene was …

Genetics and biology of prostate cancer

G Wang, D Zhao, DJ Spring… - Genes & …, 2018 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Despite the high long-term survival in localized prostate cancer, metastatic prostate cancer
remains largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. The lethality of advanced …

Primary, adaptive, and acquired resistance to cancer immunotherapy

P Sharma, S Hu-Lieskovan, JA Wargo, A Ribas - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Cancer immunotherapy can induce long lasting responses in patients with metastatic
cancers of a wide range of histologies. Broadening the clinical applicability of these …