Lee Kang-Zheng, Nguyen Tan Dai, Liu Dan
Bioprocessing Technology Institute (BTI), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), 20 Biopolis Way, Singapore, 138668, Singapore.
J Transl Med. 2025 Aug 12;23(1):899. doi: 10.1186/s12967-025-06836-1.
BACKGROUND: Viral transduction is a critical step in the manufacturing of genetically modified T cells for immunotherapies, yet conventional transduction methods suffer from low to medium efficiency, high vector consumption, and limited scalability. METHODS: To address these challenges, we introduce the Transduction Boosting Device (TransB), an innovative, automated, and closed-system platform designed to enable efficient and scalable gene delivery and overcome the limitations of conventional transduction methods. TransB improves cell-virus interactions by facilitating proximity between target cells and viral vectors. RESULTS: TransB demonstrated up to 1-fold decrease in processing time, 3-fold reduction in viral vector consumption, and 0.7-fold increase in transduction efficiency compared to 24-well plate method for donor T cell transduction in studies evaluating its impact on transduction process. Comparison studies transducing T cells from three different donors with Lenti-GFP vectors showed that TransB achieved an average 0.5-fold improvement in transduction efficiencies while maintaining comparable post-transduction cell recovery, viability, growth, and phenotype compared to 24-well plate. Furthermore, TransB delivered consistent performance across two different input cell numbers demonstrating scalability of the process. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that TransB could significantly shorten the transduction time, reduce the transduction cost and improve the transduction efficiency for manufacturing genetically modified T cell therapies. It shows strong potential as a robust, efficient, and scalable platform to enhance T cell therapy manufacturing and help overcome current manufacturing challenges in the field.
背景:病毒转导是用于免疫治疗的基因改造T细胞制造过程中的关键步骤,但传统的转导方法存在效率低至中等、载体消耗高以及可扩展性有限等问题。 方法:为应对这些挑战,我们引入了转导增强装置(TransB),这是一个创新的、自动化的封闭系统平台,旨在实现高效且可扩展的基因递送,并克服传统转导方法的局限性。TransB通过促进靶细胞与病毒载体之间的接近度来改善细胞-病毒相互作用。 结果:在评估其对转导过程影响的研究中,与24孔板法相比,TransB在供体T细胞转导中处理时间最多减少1倍,病毒载体消耗减少3倍,转导效率提高0.7倍。用慢病毒绿色荧光蛋白(Lenti-GFP)载体转导来自三个不同供体的T细胞的比较研究表明,与24孔板相比,TransB在转导效率上平均提高了0.5倍,同时在转导后细胞恢复、活力、生长和表型方面保持相当。此外,TransB在两种不同的输入细胞数量下都表现出一致的性能,证明了该过程的可扩展性。 结论:这些发现表明,TransB可以显著缩短转导时间,降低转导成本,并提高基因改造T细胞疗法制造的转导效率。它显示出作为一个强大、高效且可扩展的平台的巨大潜力,以增强T细胞疗法制造并帮助克服该领域当前的制造挑战。
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