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ArticleJournal for immunotherapy of cancer2025

CAR-NK's balancing act: when scFv affinity is not too tight, not too loose… but just right?

Yanling Liao, Mitchell S Cairo

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Article in Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
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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

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yanling LiaoPediatrics, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA.
Mitchell S CairoPediatrics, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA mitchell_cairo@nymc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2075-434X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies have revolutionized cancer treatment by enabling immune cells to target tumor cells with high specificity. While extensive research has focused on optimizing single-chain variable fragment (scFv) affinity in CAR-T cells, its impact on CAR-natural killer (NK) cell function remains less understood. A recent study by Rahnama

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveKiller Cells, NaturalReceptors, Chimeric AntigenSingle-Chain AntibodiesAnimalsAntibody AffinityHumansReceptors, Chimeric AntigenSingle-Chain AntibodiesChimeric antigen receptor - CARNatural killer - NK

Identifiers

PMID40404201
PMCPMC12096990

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