Table 3.
Abrogating inhibitory receptor signaling via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing to augment T cell effector function.
| Target | CAR |
In vitro |
In vivo |
Ref | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFN-γ | TNF-α | IL-2 | CD107a | GzmA | GzmB | GzmC | GzmD | Cytotoxicity | Model | IFN-γ | IL-2 | GzmB | Tumor | |||
| PD-1 | + | + | + | + | [57], [58], [59] | |||||||||||
| + | + | Melanoma | D | [60] | ||||||||||||
| CD19 | + | + | Myeloid leukemia | R | [45] | |||||||||||
| CD133 | = | = | = | + | Glioma | D | [63] | |||||||||
| Glypican-3 | + | + | + | Hepatocellular carcinoma | + | + | D | [62] | ||||||||
| Mesothelin | + | + | + | Breast cancer | D | [64] | ||||||||||
| CTLA-4 | + | + | [66] | |||||||||||||
| + | + | Colorectal carcinoma | D | [65] | ||||||||||||
| LAG-3 | = | = | Raji Burkitt’s lymphoma | R | [67] | |||||||||||
+, increased production; =, equal production; R, tumor regression; D, tumor outgrowth delayed. Blank indicates not reported.