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ReviewScience advances2024

Enhancing the safety of CAR-T cell therapy: Synthetic genetic switch for spatiotemporal control.

Li Lu, Mingqi Xie, Bo Yang, Wen-Bin Zhao, Ji Cao

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Review in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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68citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
20.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mapping the clinical landscape of multifunctional CAR T cells: Targets, trends, and synergies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  14. Neurological complications of current and emerging CAR-T cell therapies.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  16. Cellular immunotherapy in melanoma: the next frontier in cancer treatment.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2026
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  20. Repurposing Tumor Cells: A Paradigm Shift in Cell-Based Therapies for Cancer.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Li LuInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0009-0001-7212-2862
Mingqi XieWestlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5657-532X
Bo YangInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Wen-Bin ZhaoInnovation Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1380-0237
Ji CaoInstitute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Zhejiang Province Key Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Drug Research, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2813-6404
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · CNZhejiang Lab · CNWestlake University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a promising and precise targeted therapy for cancer that has demonstrated notable potential in clinical applications. However, severe adverse effects limit the clinical application of this therapy and are mainly caused by uncontrollable activation of CAR-T cells, including excessive immune response activation due to unregulated CAR-T cell action time, as well as toxicity resulting from improper spatial localization. Therefore, to enhance controllability and safety, a control module for CAR-T cells is proposed. Synthetic biology based on genetic engineering techniques is being used to construct artificial cells or organisms for specific purposes. This approach has been explored in recent years as a means of achieving controllability in CAR-T cell therapy. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in synthetic biology methods used to address the major adverse effects of CAR-T cell therapy in both the temporal and spatial dimensions.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyHumansImmunotherapy, AdoptiveReceptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID38394207
PMCPMC10889354
OpenAlexW4392094024

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