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Programmable Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Circuits With DNA Computing for Precision Tumor Therapy

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Miao Zhang
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Quan Zhang
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Xin Yu
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Yuhui Yan
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Yueting Yu
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Guangna Liu *
汪凤林 (Fenglin Wang) *
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楚霞 (Xia Chu)
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蒋健晖 (Jian‐Hui Jiang) *
DOI:10.1002/anie.9420497delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, a promising cancer therapeutics, still face challenges in safety and efficacy due to the incapability to precisely regulate T cell activation. Here we develop a DNA-logic CAR (DL-CAR) system that enables programmable targeting and precise ablation of tumors with specific antigen combination patterns. The DL-CAR system is engineered using HaloTag as an extracellular domain for DNA conjugation, which allows controlling the assembly of tumor-targeting aptamers for universal and combinatorial antigen recognition via DNA logic computation. DL-CAR-T cells are shown to be capable of targeting tumor cells with different antigens and controlling the CAR circuit through AND, OR, and INHIBIT Boolean logic for specific T-cell activation and cytolysis. The DL-CAR system demonstrated high efficacy for tumor eradication in mouse models, with the AND-, OR-, and INHIBIT-gated computation affording enhanced selectivity for tumors with specific antigen combinations. DL-CAR may provide a new paradigm to develop programmable CAR-T circuits for precision cancer therapy.
Keywords:
antitumor agents
aptamer
CAR-T
HaloTag
logic gate

Journal

Angewandte Chemie International Edition cover
Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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16.9
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4.7K
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368

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hunan university
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4.4W
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Citations: 70