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ISCIENCE
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101023
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- National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health [F31CA200242, R01EB017206, R01CA170820, P01CA132681]
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Chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are engineered receptors that mediate T cell activation. CARs are comprised of activating and co-stimulatory intracellular signaling domains derived from endogenous T cells that initiate signaling required for T cell activation, including ERK activation through the MAPK pathway. Understanding the mechanisms by which co-stimulatory domains influence signaling can help guide the design of next-generation CARs. Therefore, we constructed an experimentally validated computational model of anti-CD19 CARs in T cells bearing the CD3 zeta domain alone or in combination with CD28. We performed a systematic analysis to explore the different mechanisms of CD28 costimulation on the ERK response time. Comparing these model simulations with experimental data indicates that CD28 primarily influences ERK activation by enhancing the phosphorylation kinetics of CD3 zeta. Overall, we present a mechanistic mathematical modeling framework that can be used to gain insights into the mechanism of CAR T cell activation and produce new testable hypotheses.
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