Communications Biology (Mar 2021)

A single-chain antibody generation system yielding CAR-T cells with superior antitumor function

  • Toshiki Ochi,
  • Masaki Maruta,
  • Kazushi Tanimoto,
  • Fumitake Kondo,
  • Toshihiro Yamamoto,
  • Mie Kurata,
  • Hiroshi Fujiwara,
  • Junya Masumoto,
  • Katsuto Takenaka,
  • Masaki Yasukawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01791-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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With the aim of optimizing CAR-T cells for immunotherapy, Ochi et al. have established a system to generate and screen a library of CAR-T cells expressing different immunoglobulin variable regions. They show that this approach can enhance anti-tumour activities of CAR-T cells in vivo.