Fig. 3.
Cytotoxic activity of knockout CD19-CAR-NK92 cells versus CD19+ target cells. A Specific lysis (%) of Daudi (top) and Karpas422 cells (bottom) by wildtype (white), reference (green), FasL-ko (blue), Prf1-ko (red) and simultaneous FasL- & Prf1-ko CD19-CAR-NK92 cells (yellow) at E:T ratios of 1:4, 1:1 and 4:1. Cells were co-incubated for 4 h. Two cell clones of each knockout type were tested in triplicates and results were combined into one data group. Values are expressed as means of multiple determination ± SEM. P values were calculated by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s test. B Proportion (%) of perforin/granzyme pathway, FasL/FasR pathway and others of the total cytotoxic efficacy of CD19-CAR-NK92 cells against Daudi (top) and Karpas422 cells (bottom) at E:T ratios of 1:4, 1:1 and 4:1. The proportions were calculated as following: % = average reduction in cytotoxicity due to respective knockout/cytotoxicity of reference effector cells. The residual lysis of target cells by double-ko effector cells was used to calculate the influence of other pathways, non-perforin and non-FasL mediated