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ReviewJournal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR2021

CRISPR/Cas9 revitalizes adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer immunotherapy.

Sasan Ghaffari, Nastaran Khalili, Nima Rezaei

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Review in Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sasan GhaffariCancer Immunology Project (CIP), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Nastaran KhaliliCancer Immunology Project (CIP), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran.
Nima RezaeiResearch Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Dr. Qarib St, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran, 14194, Iran. rezaei_nima@yahoo.com.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversal Scientific Education and Research Network · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy has gained attention as the supreme therapeutic modality for the treatment of various malignancies. Adoptive T-cell therapy (ACT) is one of the most distinctive modalities of this therapeutic approach, which seeks to harness the potential of combating cancer cells by using autologous or allogenic tumor-specific T-cells. However, a plethora of circumstances must be optimized to produce functional, durable, and efficient T-cells. Recently, the potential of ACT has been further realized by the introduction of novel gene-editing platforms such as the CRISPR/Cas9 system; this technique has been utilized to create T-cells furnished with recombinant T-cell receptor (TCR) or chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that have precise tumor antigen recognition, minimal side effects and treatment-related toxicities, robust proliferation and cytotoxicity, and nominal exhaustion. Here, we aim to review and categorize the recent breakthroughs of genetically modified TCR/CAR T-cells through CRISPR/Cas9 technology and address the pearls and pitfalls of each method. In addition, we investigate the latest ongoing clinical trials that are applying CRISPR-associated TCR/CAR T-cells for the treatment of cancers.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAdoptive immunotherapyCancerCas enzymesClustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeatsCRISPR/Cas-9Gene editingT-lymphocytes

Identifiers

PMID34446084
PMCPMC8390258
OpenAlexW3193441167

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