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  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,663 Views
16 Pages

7 June 2023

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells brought a paradigm shift in the treatment of chemotherapy-resistant lymphomas. Conversely, clinical experience with CAR T cells targeting solid tumors has been disheartening, indicating the necessity o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
9,103 Views
14 Pages

Modular Chimeric Antigen Receptor Systems for Universal CAR T Cell Retargeting

  • Ashley R. Sutherland,
  • Madeline N. Owens and
  • C. Ronald Geyer

30 September 2020

The engineering of T cells through expression of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) against tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) has shown significant potential for use as an anti-cancer therapeutic. The development of strategies for flexible and modular...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,283 Views
10 Pages

18 July 2017

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells are T-cells with recombinant receptors targeted to tumor antigens. CAR-T cell therapy has emerged as a mode of immunotherapy and is now being extensively explored in hematologic cancer. In contrast, CAR-T cell...

  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,661 Views
23 Pages

Cell Therapy for Colorectal Cancer: The Promise of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T Cells

  • Cristina Aparicio,
  • Marina Belver,
  • Lucía Enríquez,
  • Francisco Espeso,
  • Lucía Núñez,
  • Ana Sánchez,
  • Miguel Ángel de la Fuente and
  • Margarita González-Vallinas

29 October 2021

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a global public health problem as it is the third most prevalent and the second most lethal cancer worldwide. Major efforts are underway to understand its molecular pathways as well as to define the tumour-associated antige...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,388 Views
21 Pages

The New Frontier of Immunotherapy: Chimeric Antigen Receptor T (CAR-T) Cell and Macrophage (CAR-M) Therapy against Breast Cancer

  • Giuseppe Schepisi,
  • Caterina Gianni,
  • Michela Palleschi,
  • Sara Bleve,
  • Chiara Casadei,
  • Cristian Lolli,
  • Laura Ridolfi,
  • Giovanni Martinelli and
  • Ugo De Giorgi

4 March 2023

Breast cancer represents one of the most common tumor histologies. To date, based on the specific histotype, different therapeutic strategies, including immunotherapies, capable of prolonging survival are used. More recently, the astonishing results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,878 Views
15 Pages

To improve the efficacy and safety of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing T cell therapeutics through enhanced CAR design, we analysed CAR structural factors that affect CAR-T cell function. We studied the effects of disulphide bonding at cyst...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,507 Views
22 Pages

Learning from TCR Signaling and Immunological Synapse Assembly to Build New Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CARs)

  • Chiara Cassioli,
  • Laura Patrussi,
  • Salvatore Valitutti and
  • Cosima T. Baldari

17 November 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy is a revolutionary pillar in cancer treatment. Clinical experience has shown remarkable successes in the treatment of certain hematological malignancies but only limited efficacy against B cell chr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,457 Views
36 Pages

1 December 2021

In the past decade, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell technology has revolutionized cancer immunotherapy. This strategy uses synthetic CARs to redirect the patient’s own immune cells to recognize specific antigens expressed on the surface...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
57 Citations
4,239 Views
6 Pages

Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has shown a high response rate in lymphoma patients, its cost-effectiveness is controversial due to the high price and uncertainty of the clinical evidence. In addition to the high acquisition c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,854 Views
31 Pages

For nearly three decades, chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have captivated the interest of researchers seeking to find novel immunotherapies to treat cancer. CARs were first designed to work with T cells, and the first CAR T cell therapy was approve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,788 Views
14 Pages

Crystal Structure of a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) scFv Domain Rearrangement Forming a VL-VL Dimer

  • Jonah Cheung,
  • Shagun Wazir,
  • David R. Bell,
  • James N. Kochenderfer,
  • Wayne A. Hendrickson and
  • Philippe Youkharibache

21 April 2023

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapies are dependent upon designed transmembrane proteins to bind target antigens and stimulate an immune response. The success or failure of these CARs is only partially predictable, yet recent work...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,319 Views
24 Pages

21 May 2025

Hypersensitivity reactions are dysregulated and potentially devastating immune responses, characterized by a tendency to become chronic. They target either self-proteins or harmless foreign proteins and are driven by both T and B cells. Although nume...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,499 Views
28 Pages

3 December 2020

Despite the availability of an increasing number of targeted therapeutics and wider use of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, many patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) ultimately succumb to this disease. Given their remarkable...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,132 Views
29 Pages

22 April 2024

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has become a powerful treatment option in B-cell and plasma cell malignancies, and many patients have benefited from its use. To date, six CAR T-cell products have been approved by the FDA and EMA, and m...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1,322 Views
17 Pages

28 August 2025

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell infusion has led to improved outcomes in patients with B-lymphoblastic leukemia, B-cell lymphoma, and multiple myeloma. The spectrum of post-CAR T-cell hematolymphoid abnormalities is expanding, although they re...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,553 Views
13 Pages

29 August 2017

Evidences are accumulating that CD4+ T cells can physiologically mediate antigen specific target cell lysis. By circumventing major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restrictions through an engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), CD4+ T cells lyse...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,461 Views
13 Pages

Cardiotoxicity of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR-T) Therapy: Pathophysiology, Clinical Implications, and Echocardiographic Assessment

  • Antonio Nenna,
  • Myriam Carpenito,
  • Camilla Chello,
  • Pierluigi Nappi,
  • Ombretta Annibali,
  • Bruno Vincenzi,
  • Francesco Grigioni,
  • Massimo Chello and
  • Francesco Nappi

Contemporary anticancer immunotherapy with chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has dramatically changed the treatment of many hematologic malignancies previously associated with poor prognosis. The clinical improvement and the survival b...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,279 Views
10 Pages

27 April 2022

Immunotherapy has revolutionized the care of cancer patients. A diverse set of strategies to overcome cancer immunosuppression and enhance the tumor-directed immune response are in clinical use, but have not achieved transformative benefits for brain...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,242 Views
22 Pages

Immunotherapy and Its Development for Gynecological (Ovarian, Endometrial and Cervical) Tumors: From Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors to Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T Cell Therapy

  • Giuseppe Schepisi,
  • Chiara Casadei,
  • Ilaria Toma,
  • Giulia Poti,
  • Maria Laura Iaia,
  • Alberto Farolfi,
  • Vincenza Conteduca,
  • Cristian Lolli,
  • Giorgia Ravaglia and
  • Nicole Brighi
  • + 3 authors

17 February 2021

Gynecological tumors are malignancies with both high morbidity and mortality. To date, only a few chemotherapeutic agents have shown efficacy against these cancer types (only ovarian cancer responds to several agents, especially platinum-based combin...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,675 Views
17 Pages

FDG-PET in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell (CAR T-Cell) Therapy Toxicity: A Systematic Review

  • Akram Al-Ibraheem,
  • Ahmed Saad Abdlkadir,
  • Egesta Lopci,
  • Sudqi Allouzi,
  • Diana Paez,
  • Maryam Alkuwari,
  • Mohammad Makoseh,
  • Fuad Novruzov,
  • Sharjeel Usmani and
  • Kamal Al-Rabi
  • + 1 author

29 April 2024

The utilization of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy to target cluster of differentiation (CD)19 in cancer immunotherapy has been a recent and significant advancement. Although this approach is highly specific and selective, it is not wi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,188 Views
14 Pages

23 July 2023

Lung cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and worldwide. The introduction of immune checkpoint inhibitors has led to a marked improvement in the outcomes of lung cancer patients. Despite these advances, there is a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
11,963 Views
27 Pages

NK Cells Armed with Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR): Roadblocks to Successful Development

  • Ali Bashiri Dezfouli,
  • Mina Yazdi,
  • Alan Graham Pockley,
  • Mohammad Khosravi,
  • Sebastian Kobold,
  • Ernst Wagner and
  • Gabriele Multhoff

1 December 2021

In recent years, cell-based immunotherapies have demonstrated promising results in the treatment of cancer. Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) arm effector cells with a weapon for targeting tumor antigens, licensing engineered cells to recognize and k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
467 Views
13 Pages

High Rate of Cytokine Release Syndrome-Related Coagulopathy with Low Incidence of Bleeding and Thrombosis in Patients Treated with B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA)-Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cells (CAR-T)

  • Ariela Arad,
  • Maya Katz,
  • Eyal Lebel,
  • Yosef Kalish,
  • Miri Assayag,
  • Batia Avni,
  • Shlomo Elias,
  • Sigal Grisariu,
  • Ela Shai and
  • Shlomit Kfir-Erenfeld
  • + 4 authors

2 November 2025

Background: B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-targeted chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy has demonstrated substantial efficacy in relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma. While toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,266 Views
8 Pages

30 July 2024

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy uses genetically engineered T-cells with specific binding sites. This therapy allows for tumor specificity and durable treatment responses for patients with hematological malignancies. In this review,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,693 Views
14 Pages

24 March 2024

HHV-6B reactivation affects approximately half of all allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) recipients. HHV-6B is the most frequent infectious cause of encephalitis following HCT and is associated with pleiotropic manifestations in this sett...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
25,199 Views
15 Pages

The Evolving Protein Engineering in the Design of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells

  • Hannah E. Hughes-Parry,
  • Ryan S. Cross and
  • Misty R. Jenkins

27 December 2019

The clinical success of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy in the treatment of haematological cancers has encouraged the extensive development of CAR design to improve their function and increase their applicability. Advancements in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,229 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2025

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest 5-year survival rate (13%) among major cancers and is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. The high lethality of this cancer is attributed to its insidious onset, late-stage diagnosis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,351 Views
25 Pages

22 December 2021

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has been widely successful in the treatment of B-cell malignancies, including B-cell lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, and multiple myeloma; and three generations of CAR designs have led to effective FDA a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,530 Views
14 Pages

26 August 2020

To date, various kinds of cancer immunotherapy methods have been developed, but T cell immunotherapy is one of the most promising strategies. In general, T cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) is used to modify the antigen specifici...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,053 Views
18 Pages

Emerging Novel Combined CAR-T Cell Therapies

  • Anh Nguyen,
  • Gary Johanning and
  • Yihui Shi

9 March 2022

Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) T cells are T cells engineered to express membrane receptors with high specificity to recognize specific target antigens presented by cancer cells and are co-stimulated with intracellular signals to increase the T cel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,752 Views
13 Pages

Targeting CAR to the Peptide-MHC Complex Reveals Distinct Signaling Compared to That of TCR in a Jurkat T Cell Model

  • Ling Wu,
  • Joanna Brzostek,
  • Shvetha Sankaran,
  • Qianru Wei,
  • Jiawei Yap,
  • Triscilla Y.Y. Tan,
  • Junyun Lai,
  • Paul A. MacAry and
  • Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne

18 February 2021

Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-T) utilize T cell receptor (TCR) signaling cascades and the recognition functions of antibodies. This allows T cells, normally restricted by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), to be redirected to target...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,657 Views
30 Pages

Advances and Hurdles in CAR T Cell Immune Therapy for Solid Tumors

  • Francesco Boccalatte,
  • Roberto Mina,
  • Andrea Aroldi,
  • Sarah Leone,
  • Carter M. Suryadevara,
  • Dimitris G. Placantonakis and
  • Benedetto Bruno

18 October 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in solid tumors have so far yielded limited results, in terms of therapeutic effects, as compared to the dramatic results observed for hematological malignancies. Many factors involve both the tumor cells and t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,793 Views
14 Pages

Current and Future Perspectives for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells Development in Poland

  • Tomasz J. Ślebioda,
  • Marcin Stanisławowski,
  • Lucyna Kaszubowska,
  • Jan M. Zaucha and
  • Michał A. Żmijewski

13 November 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells are genetically modified autologous T cells that have revolutionized the treatment of relapsing and refractory haematological malignancies. In this review we present molecular pathways involved in the activat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,500 Views
20 Pages

Adaptor CAR Platforms—Next Generation of T Cell-Based Cancer Immunotherapy

  • Claudia Arndt,
  • Frederick Fasslrinner,
  • Liliana R. Loureiro,
  • Stefanie Koristka,
  • Anja Feldmann and
  • Michael Bachmann

21 May 2020

The success of conventional chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy in the treatment of refractory hematologic malignancies has triggered the development of novel exciting experimental CAR technologies. Among them, adaptor CAR platforms have received...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,391 Views
16 Pages

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: A Review of Current Evidence

  • Agata Czaplicka,
  • Mieszko Lachota,
  • Leszek Pączek,
  • Radosław Zagożdżon and
  • Beata Kaleta

4 January 2024

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has revolutionized the treatment of malignant and non-malignant disorders. CARs are synthetic transmembrane receptors expressed on genetically modified immune effector cells, including T cells, natural k...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,909 Views
18 Pages

Expanding the Horizons of CAR-T Cell Therapy: A Review of Therapeutic Targets Across Diverse Diseases

  • Alejandrina Hernández-López,
  • Alberto Olaya-Vargas,
  • Juan Carlos Bustamante-Ogando and
  • Angélica Meneses-Acosta

24 January 2025

CAR-T cell therapy has shown promising results in treating malignant hematologic diseases. The principle of this therapy is based on the use of genetically modified T lymphocytes to express a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) on their membrane that spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,448 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Peptide-MHC Targeted Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Forms a T Cell-like Immune Synapse

  • Stacie Shiqi Wang,
  • Kylie Luong,
  • Fiona Margaret Gracey,
  • Shereen Jabar,
  • Brad McColl,
  • Ryan Stanley Cross and
  • Misty Rayna Jenkins

10 December 2021

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is a promising form of adoptive cell therapy that re-engineers patient-derived T cells to express a hybrid receptor specific to a tumour-specific antigen of choice. Many well-characterised tumour antigen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
7,626 Views
26 Pages

30 June 2022

Single-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells tremendously improve outcomes for patients with relapsed/refractory hematological malignancies and are considered a breakthrough therapy. However, over half of treated patients experience relaps...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
15,921 Views
15 Pages

CD47-CAR-T Cells Effectively Kill Target Cancer Cells and Block Pancreatic Tumor Growth

  • Vita Golubovskaya,
  • Robert Berahovich,
  • Hua Zhou,
  • Shirley Xu,
  • Hizkia Harto,
  • Le Li,
  • Cheng-Chi Chao,
  • Mike Ming Mao and
  • Lijun Wu

21 October 2017

CD47 is a glycoprotein of the immunoglobulin superfamily that is often overexpressed in different types of hematological and solid cancer tumors and plays important role in blocking phagocytosis, increased tumor survival, metastasis and angiogenesis....

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,775 Views
13 Pages

Clinical Impact of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in CD-19 on Treatment Outcome in FMC63-CAR-T Cell Therapy

  • Katja Seipel,
  • Mariesol Abbühl,
  • Ulrike Bacher,
  • Henning Nilius,
  • Michael Daskalakis and
  • Thomas Pabst

5 June 2023

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is effective in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (r/r DLBCL) with response rates of 63–84% and complete response observed in 43–54%. Common germline variants...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,406 Views
21 Pages

CAR-T Cells/-NK Cells in Cancer Immunotherapy and the Potential of MSC to Enhance Its Efficacy: A Review

  • Ler Yie Chan,
  • Sylvia Annabel Dass,
  • Gee Jun Tye,
  • Siti A. M. Imran,
  • Wan Safwani Wan Kamarul Zaman and
  • Fazlina Nordin

The chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) plays a dynamic role in targeting tumour-associated antigens in cancer cells. This novel therapeutic discovery combines fragments of monoclonal antibodies with the signalling and co-stimulatory domains that have be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,899 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2017

Breast cancer is a common malignancy among women. The innate and adaptive immune responses failed to be activated owing to immune modulation in the tumour microenvironment. Decades of scientific study links the overexpression of human epidermal growt...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,117 Views
22 Pages

State of the Art in CAR-T Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors: Is There a Sweeter Future?

  • Beatriz Amorós-Pérez,
  • Benigno Rivas-Pardo,
  • Manuel Gómez del Moral,
  • José Luis Subiza and
  • Eduardo Martínez-Naves

23 April 2024

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has proven to be a powerful treatment for hematological malignancies. The situation is very different in the case of solid tumors, for which no CAR-T-based therapy has yet been approved. There are many f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,155 Views
19 Pages

16 November 2022

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are an exciting advancement in cancer immunotherapy, with striking success in hematological cancers. However, in solid tumors, the unique immunosuppressive elements of the tumor microenvironment (TME) contribut...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,332 Views
19 Pages

12 November 2023

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous hematological malignancy that is often associated with relapse and drug resistance after standard chemotherapy or targeted therapy, particularly in older patients. Hematopoietic stem cell transplants ar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,416 Views
30 Pages

3 December 2022

Immunotherapy has been the fifth pillar of cancer treatment in the past decade. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a newly designed adoptive immunotherapy that is able to target and further eliminate cancer cells by engaging with MHC-i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,528 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of the Elements of Short Hairpin RNAs in Developing shRNA-Containing CAR T Cells

  • Ryan Urak,
  • Brenna Gittins,
  • Citradewi Soemardy,
  • Nicole Grepo,
  • Lior Goldberg,
  • Madeleine Maker,
  • Galina Shevchenko,
  • Alicia Davis,
  • Shirley Li and
  • Tristan Scott
  • + 3 authors

20 May 2023

Short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) have emerged as a powerful tool for gene knockdown in various cellular systems, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. However, the elements of shRNAs that are crucial for their efficacy in developing shRNA-con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,562 Views
18 Pages

Specific Activation of T Cells by an ACE2-Based CAR-Like Receptor upon Recognition of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

  • Pablo Gonzalez-Garcia,
  • Juan P. Muñoz-Miranda,
  • Ricardo Fernandez-Cisnal,
  • Lucia Olvera,
  • Noelia Moares,
  • Antonio Gabucio,
  • Cecilia Fernandez-Ponce and
  • Francisco Garcia-Cozar

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is still a health issue worldwide mostly due to a high rate of contagiousness conferred by the high-affinit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,534 Views
15 Pages

CAR-T with License to Kill Solid Tumors in Search of a Winning Strategy

  • Benedetto Sacchetti,
  • Andrea Botticelli,
  • Luca Pierelli,
  • Marianna Nuti and
  • Maurizio Alimandi

Artificial receptors designed for adoptive immune therapies need to absolve dual functions: antigen recognition and abilities to trigger the lytic machinery of reprogrammed effector T lymphocytes. In this way, CAR-T cells deliver their cytotoxic hit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
7,902 Views
15 Pages

Oncology immunotherapy has been a significant advancement in cancer treatment and involves harnessing and redirecting a patient’s immune response towards their own tumour. Specific recognition and elimination of tumour cells was first proposed...

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