Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Preclinical assessment of the efficacy and specificity of GD2-B7H3 SynNotch CAR-T in metastatic neuroblastoma

  • Babak Moghimi,
  • Sakunthala Muthugounder,
  • Samy Jambon,
  • Rachelle Tibbetts,
  • Long Hung,
  • Hamid Bassiri,
  • Michael D. Hogarty,
  • David M. Barrett,
  • Hiroyuki Shimada,
  • Shahab Asgharzadeh

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20785-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Antibodies targeting a tumor antigen, GD2, show some efficacy for neuroblastoma but induce severe neuropathic pain and peripheral neuropathy. Here the authors design a gated chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), using GD2 as the gate and another tumor antigen, B7H3, as the target, to find this GD2-B7H3 CAR capable of suppressing neuroblastoma in mouse models with little adverse effects.