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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2021

Bispecific binder redirected lentiviral vector enables in vivo engineering of CAR-T cells.

Justin T Huckaby, Elisa Landoni, Timothy M Jacobs, Barbara Savoldo, Gianpietro Dotti, Samuel K Lai

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Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Nanomaterials Drive In Vivo CAR Immune Cells Engineering.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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  8. In Vivo CAR-T Therapies-A New Era of Programmable Immunity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  9. In vivo chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  16. In vivo CAR cell therapy: from bench to bedside.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2025
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  19. In vivo CAR engineering for immunotherapy.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Justin T HuckabyUNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Elisa LandoniLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Timothy M JacobsDivision of Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Barbara SavoldoLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Gianpietro DottiLineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
Samuel K LaiUNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA lai@unc.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4721-528X
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

Virology Research Program (Program 4)P30CA016086 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI David Darr · 1985 to 2026
$201.5M
Targeting the Ig-light chains with CAR-T cells in lymphoid tumorsR01CA193140 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOTTI, GIANPIETRO · 2016 to 2020
$2.7M
Cellular Immunotherapy of Ovarian CancerR01CA243543 · NCI · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI DOTTI, GIANPIETRO · 2019 to 2023
$2.0M
Engineering Temperate Bacteriophages for Induced Secretion of Proteins and Peptides by Oral Streptococcus MitisF32DE026683 · NIDCR · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI JACOBS, TIMOTHY MICHAEL · 2016 to 2017
$96k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016086NCI NIH HHS R01 CA193140NCI NIH HHS R01 CA243543NIDCR NIH HHS F32 DE026683
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundChimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have shown considerable promise as a personalized cellular immunotherapy against B cell malignancies. However, the complex and lengthy manufacturing processes involved in generating CAR T cell products ex vivo result in substantial production time delays and high costs. Furthermore, ex vivo expansion of T cells promotes cell differentiation that reduces their in vivo replicative capacity and longevity.

methodsHere, to overcome these limitations, CAR-T cells are engineered directly in vivo by administering a lentivirus expressing a mutant Sindbis envelope, coupled with a bispecific antibody binder that redirects the virus to CD3

resultsThis redirected lentiviral system offers exceptional specificity and efficiency; a single dose of the virus delivered to immunodeficient mice engrafted with human peripheral blood mononuclear cells generates CD19-specific CAR-T cells that markedly control the growth of an aggressive pre-established xenograft B cell tumor.

conclusionsThese findings underscore in vivo engineering of CAR-T cells as a promising approach for personalized cancer immunotherapy.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, BispecificDisease Models, AnimalHumansLentivirusMiceReceptors, Chimeric AntigenTissue EngineeringAntibodies, BispecificReceptors, Chimeric Antigenantibody specificitycell engineeringchimeric antigenimmunotherapyreceptors

Identifiers

PMID34518288
PMCPMC8438880
OpenAlexW3199322603

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