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ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
卷 9, 期 5, 页码 987-992出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.9b00476
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- National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2017M2A2A6A01071250]
- Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology [BSK20-402]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2017M2A2A6A01071250] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
Despite the excellent efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR T) cell therapy, concerns about its safety have been constantly raised. The side effects of CAR T cells result from an aberrantly upregulation of CAR T cell activity. Therefore, it is crucial to control the CART cell activity whenever the patient is at risk. For this purpose, the iCas9 system, which induces apoptosis in CAR T cell through caspase-9 dimerization by compound, has been invented and is currently going under clinical trial. However, the iCas9 system is irreversible, as the entire CART cell population is removed from the patient. Thus, CAR T cells, which are very expensive, should be reinfused to the patients after they recovered from the side-effect. Here, we propose a new CAR T cell safety strategy, which targets CAR protein, not CAR T cell. In this system, the CAR construct is modified to bear a bromodomain (BD). The addition of a BD in the CAR protein did not interfere with the original CAR functions, such as cytokine secretion and target cell lysis. Our data showed that the use of a proteolysis-targeting chimaera (PROTAC) compound against BD successfully degraded the BD-containing CAR protein Moreover, the CAR expression is recovered when the PROTAC compound is removed from the cell, demonstrating that our system is reversible. In a target cell lysis assay, the PROTAC compound successfully suppressed the lytic activity of CAR T cells by degrading the CAR protein. In conclusion, we developed a new safety system in which CAR T cells can be reversibly controlled by a compound.
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