Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Endowing universal CAR T-cell with immune-evasive properties using TALEN-gene editing

  • Sumin Jo,
  • Shipra Das,
  • Alan Williams,
  • Anne-Sophie Chretien,
  • Thomas Pagliardini,
  • Aude Le Roy,
  • Jorge Postigo Fernandez,
  • Diane Le Clerre,
  • Billal Jahangiri,
  • Isabelle Chion-Sotinel,
  • Sandra Rozlan,
  • Emilie Dessez,
  • Agnes Gouble,
  • Mathilde Dusséaux,
  • Roman Galetto,
  • Aymeric Duclert,
  • Emanuela Marcenaro,
  • Raynier Devillier,
  • Daniel Olive,
  • Philippe Duchateau,
  • Laurent Poirot,
  • Julien Valton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30896-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Host versus graft reaction is a major impediment to CAR-T cell immune therapy in allogeneic settings. Authors show here that CAR-T cells, engineered to be deficient in MHC I expression but to express the NK inhibitor HLA-E, are resistant to destruction by both T and NK cells of the host.