Blood Advances,
Journal Year:
2019,
Volume and Issue:
3(19), P. 2812 - 2815
Published: Oct. 1, 2019
Key
points
T
cells
from
patients
early
in
myeloma
therapy
exhibit
better
fitness
for
CAR
manufacturing
than
those
relapsed/refractory
patients.
may
be
more
effective
if
manufactured
before
onset
of
disease.
Blood Cancer Journal,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
11(4)
Published: April 6, 2021
Abstract
Chimeric
antigen
receptor
(CAR)-T
cell
therapy
is
a
revolutionary
new
pillar
in
cancer
treatment.
Although
treatment
with
CAR-T
cells
has
produced
remarkable
clinical
responses
certain
subsets
of
B
leukemia
or
lymphoma,
many
challenges
limit
the
therapeutic
efficacy
solid
tumors
and
hematological
malignancies.
Barriers
to
effective
include
severe
life-threatening
toxicities,
modest
anti-tumor
activity,
escape,
restricted
trafficking,
limited
tumor
infiltration.
In
addition,
host
microenvironment
interactions
critically
alter
function.
Furthermore,
complex
workforce
required
develop
implement
these
treatments.
order
overcome
significant
challenges,
innovative
strategies
approaches
engineer
more
powerful
improved
activity
decreased
toxicity
are
necessary.
this
review,
we
discuss
recent
innovations
engineering
improve
both
malignancy
limitations
tumors.
Nature Medicine,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
27(8), P. 1419 - 1431
Published: July 26, 2021
Abstract
Despite
impressive
progress,
more
than
50%
of
patients
treated
with
CD19-targeting
chimeric
antigen
receptor
T
cells
(CAR19)
experience
progressive
disease.
Ten
16
large
B
cell
lymphoma
(LBCL)
disease
after
CAR19
treatment
had
absent
or
low
CD19.
Lower
surface
CD19
density
pretreatment
was
associated
To
prevent
relapse
−
lo
disease,
we
tested
a
bispecific
CAR
targeting
and/or
CD22
(CD19-22.BB.z-CAR)
in
phase
I
clinical
trial
(
NCT03233854
)
adults
relapsed/refractory
acute
lymphoblastic
leukemia
(B-ALL)
and
LBCL.
The
primary
end
points
were
manufacturing
feasibility
safety
secondary
efficacy
point.
Primary
met;
97%
products
met
protocol-specified
dose
no
dose-limiting
toxicities
occurred
during
escalation.
In
B-ALL
n
=
17),
100%
responded
88%
minimal
residual
disease-negative
complete
remission
(CR);
LBCL
21),
62%
29%
CR.
Relapses
−/lo
(5
out
10)
(4
14)
but
not
CD19/22-CAR
demonstrated
reduced
cytokine
production
when
stimulated
versus
Our
results
further
implicate
loss
as
major
cause
resistance,
highlight
the
challenge
engineering
multi-specific
equivalent
potency
across
targets
identify
an
important
quality
indicator
for
potency.
Cancer Discovery,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
10(5), P. 702 - 723
Published: March 19, 2020
Abstract
Insufficient
reactivity
against
cells
with
low
antigen
density
has
emerged
as
an
important
cause
of
chimeric
receptor
(CAR)
T-cell
resistance.
Little
is
known
about
factors
that
modulate
the
threshold
for
recognition.
We
demonstrate
CD19
CAR
activity
dependent
upon
and
construct
in
axicabtagene
ciloleucel
(CD19-CD28ζ)
outperforms
tisagenlecleucel
(CD19-4-1BBζ)
antigen-low
tumors.
Enhancing
signal
strength
by
including
additional
immunoreceptor
tyrosine-based
activation
motifs
(ITAM)
enables
recognition
low-antigen-density
cells,
whereas
ITAM
deletions
blunt
increase
threshold.
Furthermore,
replacement
CD8
hinge-transmembrane
(H/T)
region
a
4-1BBζ
CD28-H/T
lowers
despite
identical
signaling
molecules.
CARs
incorporating
more
stable
efficient
immunologic
synapse.
Precise
design
can
tune
endow
4-1BBζ-CARs
enhanced
capacity
to
recognize
targets
while
retaining
superior
persistence.
Significance:
Optimal
on
density,
which
variable
many
cancers,
lymphoma
solid
CD28ζ-CARs
outperform
when
low.
However,
be
reengineered
enhance
tumors
maintaining
their
unique
This
article
highlighted
In
Issue
feature,
p.
627
Leukemia,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
34(4), P. 985 - 1005
Published: Feb. 13, 2020
Despite
considerable
advances
in
the
treatment
of
multiple
myeloma
(MM)
last
decade,
a
substantial
proportion
patients
do
not
respond
to
current
therapies
or
have
short
duration
response.
Furthermore,
these
treatments
can
notable
morbidity
and
are
uniformly
tolerated
all
patients.
As
there
is
no
cure
for
MM,
eventually
become
resistant
therapies,
leading
development
relapsed/refractory
MM.
Therefore,
an
unmet
need
exists
MM
with
novel
mechanisms
action
that
provide
durable
responses,
evade
resistance
prior
and/or
better
tolerated.
B-cell
maturation
antigen
(BCMA)
preferentially
expressed
by
mature
B
lymphocytes,
its
overexpression
activation
associated
preclinical
models
humans,
supporting
potential
utility
as
therapeutic
target
Moreover,
use
BCMA
biomarker
supported
prognostic
value,
correlation
clinical
status,
ability
be
used
traditionally
difficult-to-monitor
patient
populations.
Here,
we
review
three
common
modalities
MM:
bispecific
antibody
constructs,
antibody-drug
conjugates,
chimeric
receptor
(CAR)-modified
T-cell
therapy.
We
overview
preliminary
data
from
trials
using
including
BiTE®
(bispecific
engager)
immuno-oncology
therapy
AMG
420,
conjugate
GSK2857916,
several
CAR
agents
bb2121,
NIH
CAR-BCMA,
LCAR-B38M.
Notable
antimyeloma
activity
high
minimal
residual
disease
negativity
rates
been
observed
treatments.
These
outline
BCMA-targeted
improve
landscape
Importantly,
results
date
suggest
may
hold
promise
deep
responses
support
further
investigation
earlier
lines
treatment,
newly
diagnosed