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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wang, Dongrui
• Prager, Briana C
• Gimple, Ryan C
• Aguilar, Brenda
• Alizadeh, Darya
• Tang, Hongzhen
• Lv, Deguan
• Starr, Renate
• Brito, Alfonso
• Wu, Qiulian
• Kim, Leo J Y
• Qiu, Zhixin
• Lin, Peng
• Lorenzini, Michael H
• Badie, Behnam
• Forman, Stephen J
• Xie, Qi
• Brown, Christine E
• Rich, Jeremy N

Titel

CRISPR Screening of CAR T Cells and Cancer Stem Cells Reveals Critical Dependencies for Cell-Based Therapies

Ist Teil von

• Cancer discovery, 2021-05, Vol.11 (5), p.1192-1211

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Glioblastoma (GBM) contains self-renewing GBM stem cells (GSC) potentially amenable to immunologic targeting, but chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has demonstrated limited clinical responses in GBM. Here, we interrogated molecular determinants of CAR-mediated GBM killing through whole-genome CRISPR screens in both CAR T cells and patient-derived GSCs. Screening of CAR T cells identified dependencies for effector functions, including TLE4 and IKZF2. Targeted knockout of these genes enhanced CAR antitumor efficacy. Bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing of edited CAR T cells revealed transcriptional profiles of superior effector function and inhibited exhaustion responses. Reciprocal screening of GSCs identified genes essential for susceptibility to CAR-mediated killing, including RELA and NPLOC4, the knockout of which altered tumor-immune signaling and increased responsiveness of CAR therapy. Overall, CRISPR screening of CAR T cells and GSCs discovered avenues for enhancing CAR therapeutic efficacy against GBM, with the potential to be extended to other solid tumors. SIGNIFICANCE: Reciprocal CRISPR screening identified genes in both CAR T cells and tumor cells regulating the potency of CAR T-cell cytotoxicity, informing molecular targeting strategies to potentiate CAR T-cell antitumor efficacy and elucidate genetic modifications of tumor cells in combination with CAR T cells to advance immuno-oncotherapy. .