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ArticleMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids2025

Sustained and specific multiplexed immune checkpoint modulation in CAR T cells induced by targeted epigenome editing.

Maria Silvia Roman Azcona, Gianni Monaco, Melissa Whitehead, Masako Monika Kaufmann, Jamal Alzubi, Toni Cathomen, Claudio Mussolino

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Article in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Advances and clinical potential of epigenome editing.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  5. Epigenetic editing: from concept to clinic.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  8. Post-translational modifications in CD8Frontiers in immunology · 2026
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7 authors.

Maria Silvia Roman AzconaInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Gianni MonacoInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Melissa WhiteheadInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Masako Monika KaufmannInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Jamal AlzubiInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Toni CathomenInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Claudio MussolinoInstitute for Transfusion Medicine and Gene Therapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engineered T cells equipped with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) have shown tremendous clinical success, but tumor-mediated stimulation of T cell inhibitory receptors leads to exhaustion, hampering durable remission in patients. Mitigation of this effect via checkpoint inhibition or genome editing to knockout the genes encoding for these receptors has shown promise. Yet, the side effects of these procedures require better alternatives. Targeted epigenome editing offers a potent strategy to alter gene expression without DNA modifications. Its hit-and-run mechanism enables durable, multiplexed modulation of gene expression with greater safety. Here, we describe multiplexed epigenome editing inactivation of two critical-exhaustion-related genes,

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CAR T cellsepigenome editingimmune checkpointsimmunotherapyLAG-3MT: Delivery StrategiesPD-1prostate cancer

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PMID40686859
PMCPMC12275148

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