Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Antigen glycosylation regulates efficacy of CAR T cells targeting CD19

  • Amanda Heard,
  • Jack H. Landmann,
  • Ava R. Hansen,
  • Alkmini Papadopolou,
  • Yu-Sung Hsu,
  • Mehmet Emrah Selli,
  • John M. Warrington,
  • John Lattin,
  • Jufang Chang,
  • Helen Ha,
  • Martina Haug-Kroeper,
  • Balraj Doray,
  • Saar Gill,
  • Marco Ruella,
  • Katharina E. Hayer,
  • Matthew D. Weitzman,
  • Abby M. Green,
  • Regina Fluhrer,
  • Nathan Singh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31035-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Loss of surface CD19 expression by leukemic cells leads to resistance and relapse to CD19-targeted CAR-T therapies. Here the authors show that loss of SPPL3 in malignant B cells results in hyperglycosylation of CD19.