STAR Protocols (Dec 2021)

Production of human CAR-NK cells with lentiviral vectors and functional assessment in vitro

  • Ana L. Portillo,
  • Richard Hogg,
  • Ali A. Ashkar

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
p. 100956

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Summary: Although natural killer (NK) cells have become a promising immune effector cell for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based therapy, generating human CAR-NK cells with high transgene efficiency has been challenging. In this protocol, we describe how to generate CAR-NK cells with transduction efficiencies >15% from healthy donor ex vivo expanded NK cells using third generation lentiviral vectors (LVs). We also show how to assess CAR-NK cell anti-tumor function in vitro using a flow cytometry-based killing assay.For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Portillo et al. (2021).

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