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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2026

Emerging CRISPR Approaches for Countering Immune Evasion: Insight from Recent Studies.

Sadam Abubakar, Latifat Abdulsalam, Lamin Fatty, Rimsha Kanwal, Muhammad Naeem, Irshad Ahmad

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sadam AbubakarDepartment of Bioengineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0005-0751-456X
Latifat AbdulsalamDepartment of Bioengineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0009-0004-4264-950X
Lamin FattyDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Padua, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padua, Italy.
Rimsha KanwalInstitute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), The University of Lahore, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Muhammad NaeemDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Irshad AhmadDepartment of Bioengineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8914-282X

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy has recently become an essential approach for treating cancer, showing considerable promise as a substitute for surgery, radiation therapy, and conventional chemotherapy. It primarily aims to boost the host's natural defense system to combat cancer malignancies by utilizing components of immune checkpoint blockades (ICBs), mainly programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4), along with elements of adoptive cellular therapies (ACTs) like Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) therapy, T Cell Receptor (TCR) therapy and Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte (TIL) therapy. However, cancer cells tend to undermine the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapeutic strategies by employing one or more immune evasion mechanisms. This review briefly highlights how key mechanisms of cancer immune evasion confer resistance to immunotherapy and how the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/Cas9 (CRISPR)/Cas9 systems, as gene-editing tools, are poised to enhance cancer immunotherapy for treating challenging cancers. We emphasize that (CRISPR/Cas9) systems can be used to explore and positively alter the genes of the immune system, boosting the effectiveness of cancer immunotherapy by editing immune checkpoints, TILs, and CAR-T cells, and disrupting genes, facilitating tumors' evasion of the immune system. Furthermore, we highlight the growing interest in emerging base editor technology to engineer natural killer (NK) cells to overcome NK-cell-based immunotherapy challenges, particularly human leukocyte antigens (HLA)-mediated limitations, and to engineer CAR-T cells for improved immunotherapy outcomes.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingImmune EvasionImmunotherapyNeoplasmsTumor EscapeAnimalsHumanscancer immunotherapygene editingimmune evasiontumor infiltrationtumor microenvironment (TME)

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PMID41977119
PMCPMC13073467

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