Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors

Abstract The potential for adoptive cell immunotherapy as a treatment against cancers has been demonstrated by the remarkable response in some patients with hematological malignancies using autologous T cells endowed with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) specific for CD19. Clinical efficacy of CAR-...

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Main Authors: Erhao Zhang, Jieyi Gu, Hanmei Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-01-01
Series:Molecular Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12943-018-0759-3
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Jieyi Gu
Hanmei Xu
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description Abstract The potential for adoptive cell immunotherapy as a treatment against cancers has been demonstrated by the remarkable response in some patients with hematological malignancies using autologous T cells endowed with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) specific for CD19. Clinical efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy for the treatment of solid tumors, however, is rare due to physical and biochemical factors. This review focuses on different aspects of multiple mechanisms of immunosuppression in solid tumors. We characterize the current state of CAR-modified T cell therapy and summarize the various strategies to combat the immunosuppressive microenvironment of solid tumors, with the aim of promoting T cell cytotoxicity and enhancing tumor cell eradication.
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spelling doaj.art-e2c52db2d16e4d5badc4e0581d3777a12022-12-22T01:51:17ZengBMCMolecular Cancer1476-45982018-01-0117111210.1186/s12943-018-0759-3Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumorsErhao Zhang0Jieyi Gu1Hanmei Xu2The Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical UniversityThe Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical UniversityThe Engineering Research Center of Peptide Drug Discovery and Development, China Pharmaceutical UniversityAbstract The potential for adoptive cell immunotherapy as a treatment against cancers has been demonstrated by the remarkable response in some patients with hematological malignancies using autologous T cells endowed with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) specific for CD19. Clinical efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy for the treatment of solid tumors, however, is rare due to physical and biochemical factors. This review focuses on different aspects of multiple mechanisms of immunosuppression in solid tumors. We characterize the current state of CAR-modified T cell therapy and summarize the various strategies to combat the immunosuppressive microenvironment of solid tumors, with the aim of promoting T cell cytotoxicity and enhancing tumor cell eradication.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12943-018-0759-3Chimeric antigen receptor T cellAdoptive cell therapySolid tumorImmunosuppressive microenvironmentCancer immunotherapy
spellingShingle Erhao Zhang
Jieyi Gu
Hanmei Xu
Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors
Molecular Cancer
Chimeric antigen receptor T cell
Adoptive cell therapy
Solid tumor
Immunosuppressive microenvironment
Cancer immunotherapy
title Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors
title_full Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors
title_fullStr Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors
title_full_unstemmed Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors
title_short Prospects for chimeric antigen receptor-modified T cell therapy for solid tumors
title_sort prospects for chimeric antigen receptor modified t cell therapy for solid tumors
topic Chimeric antigen receptor T cell
Adoptive cell therapy
Solid tumor
Immunosuppressive microenvironment
Cancer immunotherapy
url http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12943-018-0759-3
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