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. 2021 May 1;14:73. doi: 10.1186/s13045-021-01083-5

Table 1.

Overview of CAR-NK studies to date using cell lines

# Reference: first author (journal, year) Effector cell Vehicle Target generation Activation signal
retro lenti mRNA plasmid transposon 1 2 3
1 Uherek (Blood 2002) NK-92 x HER2 x CD3ζ
2 Schirrmann (Cancer Gene Ther 2002) YTS x CEA x CD3ζ
3 Daldrup-Link (Eur Radiol 2005) NK-92 x x HER2 x CD3ζ
4 Schirrmann (Leukemia Research 2005) YT x CD33 x CD3ζ
5 Meier (Nucl Med Biol 2008) NK-92 x HER2 x CD3ζ
6 Muller (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2008) NK-92 x CD20 x murine CD3ζ
7 Tavri (Mol Imaging 2009) NK-92 x EpCAM x CD3ζ
8 Boissel (Leukemia Res 2009) NK-92 x x CD19 x CD3ζ
9 Meier (Magn Reson Med 2011) NK-92 x EpCAM x CD3ζ
10 Sahm (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2012) NK-92, NKL 2 EpCAM x CD28-CD3ζ
11 Boissel (Leukemia Lymphoma 2012) NK-92 x x CD19, CD20 x CD3ζ
12 Esser (J Cell Mol Med 2012) NK-92 x GD2 x CD3ζ
13 Tassev (Cancer Gene Ther 2012) NK-92-MI x EBNA x CD3ζ
14 Alkins (Cancer Res 2013) NK-92 x HER2 x CD3ζ
15 Boissel (OncoImmunol 2014) NK-92 x CD19, CD20 x CD3ζ
16 Jiang (Mol Oncol 2014) NK-92-MI 3 CD138 x CD3ζ
17 Chu (Leukemia 2014) NK-92 2 CS1 x CD28-CD3ζ
18 Seidel (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2015) NK-92 x GD2 x CD3ζ
19 Schönfeld (Mol Ther 2015) NK-92 2 HER2 x x CD28-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/CD3ζ
20 Han (Sci Reports 2015) NK-92, NKL 2 EGFR x CD28-CD3ζ
21 Clémenceau (J Immunol Res 2015) NK-92 x Her2 x FceRIγ
22 Liu (Oncol Reports 2015) NK-92 x HER2 x CD28-CD3ζ
23 Zhao (Leukemia 2015) NK-92-MI x WT-1 x CD137-CD3ζ
24 Muller (J Immunother 2015) YTS 2 EGFRvIII x DAP12
25 Alkins (Neuro-Oncol 2016) NK-92 x HER2 x CD3ζ
26 Genßler et al. (OncoImmunol 2016) NK-92 2 EGFRvIII x CD28-CD3ζ
27 Zhang (J Natl Cancer Inst 2016) NK-92 2 HER2 x CD28-CD3ζ
28 Romanski (J Cell Mol Med 2016) NK-92 x CD19 x CD3ζ
29 Topfer (J Immunother 2016) YTS 2 EGFRvIII x DAP12
30 Chen (Oncotarget 2016) NK-92, PB-NK 2 EGFR x CD28-CD3ζ
31 Siegler (Mol Ther 2017) NK-92 x x CD19, HER2 x x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ/CD28-CD3ζ
32 Oelsner (Cytotherapy 2017) NK-92 2 CD19 x x CD28-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/CD3ζ
33 Chen (Oncotarget 2017) NK-92 2 CD3 x CD137-CD28-CD3ζ
34 Chen (Leukemia 2017) NK-92 2 CD5 x CD137-CD28-CD3ζ
35 Li (Cell Stem Cell 2018) NK-92, iPSC x mesothelin x x x 2B4-CD3ζ/CD28-CD137-CD3ζ/DAP10-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/2B4-DAP12-CD3ζ/2B4-DAP10-CD3ζ/CD137-2B4-CD3ζ/CD3ζ
36 Zhao (Eur J Inflamm 2018) NK-92-MI x CD19, CD138 x CD28-CD3ζ
37 Murakami (Anticancer Res 2018) KHYG-1 x EGFRvIII x CD137-CD3ζ
38 Zhang (J Immunol Res 2018) NK-92 2 EpCAM x CD137-CD3ζ
39 Yu (Mol Therapy 2018) NK-92 x GPC3 x CD28-CD3ζ
40 Nowakowska (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2018) NK-92 2 HER2 x x CD28-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/CD3ζ
41 Tang (Am J Cancer Res 2018) NK-92-MI 3 CD33 x x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
42 Schnalzger (EMBO J 2019) NK-92 2 HER2 x CD28-CD3ζ
43 Ao (J Immunother 2019) NK-92 x AlphaFR x x x CD3ζ/CD28-CD3ζ/CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
44 Kloess (Human Gene Therapy 2019) NK-92, PB x CD123 x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
45 Kim (Biomaterials 2019) NK-92-MI x EGFR x CD28-CD3ζ
46 Xu (J Hematol Oncol 2019) NK-92 3 CD5 x 2B4-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ
47 Batchu (Surgery 2019) NK-92-MI x x mesothelin x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
48 Kulemzin (BMC Med Genom 2019) NK-92, YT 2 PMSA x CD28-CD3ζ
49 You (Am J Cancer Res. 2019) NK-92-MI x CD7 x CD28-4-1BB-CD3ζ
50 Oelsner (Int J Cancer 2019) NK-92 2 FLT3 x CD28-CD3ζ
51 Parlar (Eur J Immunol 2019) NK-92, YTS x CD3 δγεδ, TCR x CD3ζ
52 Mensali (EBioMed 2019) NK-92 x CD3 δγεδ, TCR x CD3ζ
53 Ravi (Leukemia 2020) NK-92 x CD19 x CD3ζ
54 Hu (Sci Report 2020) NK-92-MI x Tissue factor x CD137-CD3ζ
55 Huang (Cancer Manag Res 2020) NK-92 x GPC3 x x x CD3ζ/CD28-CD3ζ/2B4-CD3ζ/DNAM1-CD3ζ/DNAM1-2B4-CD3ζ
56 Mitwasi (Sci Report 2020) NK-92-MI x GD2 x CD28-CD3ζ
57 Hambach (Cells 2020) NK-92 x CD38 x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
58 Cao (Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020) NK-92 2 Mesothelin, CD19 x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
59 Li (J Cancer Res Ther 2020) NK-92 x Robo1 x CD137-CD3ζ
60 Montagner (Cells 2020) NK-92 x PMSA x CD28-CD3ζ
61 Nakazawa (Anticancer Res 2020) KHYG-1 x EGFRvIII x CD137-CD3ζ
62 Robbins (eLife 2020) NK-92 PDL1 x FcεR1γ
63 Lee (J Control Release 2020) NK-92 x Fra, TRAIL x CD27-CD3ζ
64 Liu (Cytotherapy 2020) NK-92 MI 3 CD19 x CD137-CD3ζ
65 Yang (Front Pharmacol 2020) NK-92 MI 2 B7H3 x CD137-CD3ζ
66 Jamali (Front immunol 2020) NK-92, NKL, PB 3 CD19 x CD137-CD3ζ
67 Ahn (Biomaterials 2020) NK-92 EGFR x CD28-DAP10-CD3ζ
68 Fabian (J Immunother Cancer 2020) haNK-92 PD-L1
69 Gurney (Haematologica 2020) KHYG-1, PB-NK x CD38 x CD28-CD3ζ
70 Tseng (Nat Commun 2020) NK-92MI, PB-NK x 2 CD147, GPC3 x CD28-CD137-CD3ζ
71 Eitler (Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2021) NK-92 2 HER2 x CD28-CD3ζ
72 Kang (Int J Mol Sci 2021) NK-92MI, KHYG-1 3 CD19 CD28-CD3ζ

Numbers in the "Vehicle" column refer to the generation of retro- and lentiviruses. – denotes information not provided in the study. Other abbreviations: gen. = CAR generation. Lenti lentivirus, Retro retrovirus, Transp transposon

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