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Engineering Strategies to Enhance TCR-Based Adoptive T Cell Therapy.

Jan A Rath, Caroline Arber

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Review in Cells, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  11. Regulatory T Cell-Based Adoptive Cell Therapy in Autoimmunity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Adoptive Cell Therapy from the Dish: Potentiating Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2025
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  17. Application of adoptive cell therapy in malignant melanoma.Journal of translational medicine · 2025
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  19. Current Perspectives of Immunotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jan A RathDepartment of oncology UNIL CHUV, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8881-6060
Caroline ArberDepartment of oncology UNIL CHUV, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cell receptor (TCR)-based adoptive T cell therapies (ACT) hold great promise for the treatment of cancer, as TCRs can cover a broad range of target antigens. Here we summarize basic, translational and clinical results that provide insight into the challenges and opportunities of TCR-based ACT. We review the characteristics of target antigens and conventional αβ-TCRs, and provide a summary of published clinical trials with TCR-transgenic T cell therapies. We discuss how synthetic biology and innovative engineering strategies are poised to provide solutions for overcoming current limitations, that include functional avidity, MHC restriction, and most importantly, the tumor microenvironment. We also highlight the impact of precision genome editing on the next iteration of TCR-transgenic T cell therapies, and the discovery of novel immune engineering targets. We are convinced that some of these innovations will enable the field to move TCR gene therapy to the next level.

Indexed as

Biomedical EngineeringCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyCell EngineeringGene EditingGenetic TherapyHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveLymphocyte ActivationMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-betaSafetySynthetic BiologyT-LymphocytesTranslational Research, BiomedicalReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-betaadoptive T cell therapyaviditycancer immunotherapychimeric antigen receptorchimeric receptorsCRISPRengineered T cellsgene editingtransgenic TCRtumor microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID32570906
PMCPMC7349724

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