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ArticleNature biotechnology2025

Discovery of tumor-reactive T cell receptors by massively parallel library synthesis and screening.

Ziva Moravec, Yue Zhao, Rhianne Voogd, Danielle R Cook, Seon Kinrot, Benjamin Capra, Haiyan Yang, Brenda Raud, Jiayu Ou, Jiekun Xuan and 9 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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38 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Ziva MoravecDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0001-4351-5317
Yue Zhao *RootPath, Inc. (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.
Rhianne Voogd *Department of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Danielle R CookRootPath, Inc. (US), Watertown, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1958-8983
Seon KinrotRootPath, Inc. (US), Watertown, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5614-0983
Benjamin CapraRootPath, Inc. (US), Watertown, MA, USA.
Haiyan YangRootPath, Inc. (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.
Brenda RaudDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jiayu OuRootPath, Inc. (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.
Jiekun XuanRootPath, Inc. (US), Watertown, MA, USA.
Teng WeiCytotherapy Laboratory, People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Lili RenCytotherapy Laboratory, People's Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Dandan HuDepartment of Liver Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, Guangzhou, China.
Jun WangDepartment of Pathology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
John B A G HaanenDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ton N SchumacherDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0517-8804
Xi ChenRootPath, Inc. (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China. xi@rootpath.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6394-9967
Ely PorterRootPath, Inc. (US), Watertown, MA, USA. elyporter@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5670-2317
Wouter ScheperDepartment of Molecular Oncology and Immunology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. w.scheper@nki.nl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1555-587X

Funding

KWF Kankerbestrijding (Dutch Cancer Society) 2020-1/12977ZonMw (Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development) 446002001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cell receptor (TCR) gene therapy is a potent form of cellular immunotherapy in which patient T cells are genetically engineered to express TCRs with defined tumor reactivity. However, the isolation of therapeutic TCRs is complicated by both the general scarcity of tumor-specific T cells among patient T cell repertoires and the patient-specific nature of T cell epitopes expressed on tumors. Here we describe a high-throughput, personalized TCR discovery pipeline that enables the assembly of complex synthetic TCR libraries in a one-pot reaction, followed by pooled expression in reporter T cells and functional genetic screening against patient-derived tumor or antigen-presenting cells. We applied the method to screen thousands of tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL)-derived TCRs from multiple patients and identified dozens of CD4

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NeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesGene LibraryHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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