ArticleCancer discovery2021
CRISPR Screening of CAR T Cells and Cancer Stem Cells Reveals Critical Dependencies for Cell-Based Therapies.
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129 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 166 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mapping the clinical landscape of multifunctional CAR T cells: Targets, trends, and synergies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026Pooled it
- Strategies and mechanisms for the enhancement of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell functions.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Pooled it
- Overcoming T cell exhaustion and senescence in CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- CRISPR in clinical oncology: translational advances from molecular diagnostics to therapeutics.Nature reviews. Clinical oncology · 2026Review
- High-Content CRISPR Screening: Methods and Applications.MedComm · 2026Review
- Advancing targeted protein degradation: pLIRTAC's role in glioma and CAR-T cell therapy.Autophagy · 2026Article
- Iron-mediated ferroptosis impairs CAR-T cell function and antitumor efficacy.Nature cancer · 2026Article
- High-Precision Intrinsic Interactome Elucidation of Chimeric Antigen Receptors via Photocatalytic Micromapping (μMap-CAR).Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- A guide to CAR T cell therapies: development, current status and future prospects.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2026Review
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- Circadian rhythm in immunotherapy and cellular therapy: impacts on the tumor microenvironment.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2026Review
- The Pleiotropic Roles of Cytokines in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy.Cancer immunology research · 2026Review
- Regulation of T cell exhaustion and stemness: molecular mechanisms and implications for cancer immunotherapy.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2026Review
- Next-generation CAR-T engineering for colorectal cancer: integrating targets, tumor microenvironment barriers, and emerging strategies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- CRISPR/Cas9 Technology for Modifying Immune Checkpoint in CAR-T Cell Therapy for Hematopoietic Malignancies.Current gene therapy · 2026Review
- Characterizing miRNA editing patterns in 5 types of cells using single-cell small RNA sequencing data.Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- NPLOC4 Inhibition Remodels Tumor Microenvironment via M2-to-M1 Macrophage Reprogramming and Boosts Anti-PD-1 Response in Liver Cancer.International journal of biological sciences · 2026Article
- NPLOC4 Constructs Tumor Immunosuppressive Microenvironment in Pan-cancer and Hepatocellular Carcinoma.Current medicinal chemistry · 2026Article
- High-throughput screening to engineer optimal T cell therapies: current knowledge and future prospects.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- CRISPR-screen informed engineered T cell therapies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
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Abstract
Glioblastoma (GBM) contains self-renewing GBM stem cells (GSC) potentially amenable to immunologic targeting, but chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has demonstrated limited clinical responses in GBM. Here, we interrogated molecular determinants of CAR-mediated GBM killing through whole-genome CRISPR screens in both CAR T cells and patient-derived GSCs. Screening of CAR T cells identified dependencies for effector functions, including TLE4 and IKZF2. Targeted knockout of these genes enhanced CAR antitumor efficacy. Bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing of edited CAR T cells revealed transcriptional profiles of superior effector function and inhibited exhaustion responses. Reciprocal screening of GSCs identified genes essential for susceptibility to CAR-mediated killing, including RELA and NPLOC4, the knockout of which altered tumor-immune signaling and increased responsiveness of CAR therapy. Overall, CRISPR screening of CAR T cells and GSCs discovered avenues for enhancing CAR therapeutic efficacy against GBM, with the potential to be extended to other solid tumors. SIGNIFICANCE: Reciprocal CRISPR screening identified genes in both CAR T cells and tumor cells regulating the potency of CAR T-cell cytotoxicity, informing molecular targeting strategies to potentiate CAR T-cell antitumor efficacy and elucidate genetic modifications of tumor cells in combination with CAR T cells to advance immuno-oncotherapy.
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