Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2022 Aug;187:114358. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2022.114358. Epub 2022 May 23.
Protein engineering has contributed to successes in the field of T cell-based immunotherapy, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy. CAR T cell therapy has become a pillar of cancer immunotherapy, demonstrating clinical effectiveness against B cell malignancies by targeting the B cell antigen CD19. Current gene editing techniques have limited safety controls over CAR T cell activity, which presents a hurdle for control of CAR T cells in patients. Alternatively, CAR T cell activity can be controlled by engineering CARs to bind soluble adapter molecules that direct the interaction between the CAR T cell and target cell. The flexibility in this adapter-mediated approach overcomes the rigid specificity of traditional CAR T cells to allow targeting of multiple cell types. Here we describe adapter CAR T technologies and how these methods emphasize the growing role of protein engineering in the design of programmable tools for T cell therapies.
蛋白质工程在基于 T 细胞的免疫疗法领域取得了成功,包括嵌合抗原受体(CAR)T 细胞疗法。CAR T 细胞疗法已成为癌症免疫疗法的支柱,通过针对 B 细胞抗原 CD19 靶向治疗 B 细胞恶性肿瘤,显示出临床疗效。目前的基因编辑技术对 CAR T 细胞的活性缺乏安全控制,这对患者中 CAR T 细胞的控制构成了障碍。或者,可以通过设计 CAR 来结合可溶性衔接子分子来控制 CAR T 细胞的活性,这些衔接子分子指导 CAR T 细胞与靶细胞之间的相互作用。这种适配器介导方法的灵活性克服了传统 CAR T 细胞的刚性特异性,从而允许针对多种细胞类型进行靶向。在这里,我们描述了适配器 CAR T 技术,以及这些方法如何强调蛋白质工程在设计可编程 T 细胞治疗工具中的作用不断增强。