a, Detection of phosphorylated ERK (pERK) in iCAR-TCTL, DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL and pCAR-TCTL 60 min after co-culturing with irradiated SK-Hep-GPC3. One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test b, Target cell-mediated proliferation of iCAR-TCTL and DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL was determined by co-culturing with irradiated SK-Hep-GPC3 and using a standard 3H-thymidine incorporation assay at 72 h (n = 3, mean ± s.e.m.). Two-sided Student’s t-test. c, Therapeutic efficacy of iCAR-TCTL and DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL in a peritoneal ovarian cancer model, and treatment schedule of the ovarian cancer peritoneal dissemination xenograft model: NSG mice were injected intraperitoneally (i.p.) with 5 × 105 KOC7c cells expressing luciferase, and from the third day after the ovarian cancer inoculation, 5 × 106 iCAR-TCTL, DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL or pCAR-TCTL were injected intraperitoneally twice a week for 2 weeks (n = 8 for each group). d, In vivo bioluminescence imaging of luciferase-labelled KOC7c in NSG mice treated with iCAR-TCTL, DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL or pCAR-TCTL. e,f, Change in the total body flux as the total tumour volume (mean ± s.e.m.) (e) and survival (f) were evaluated at the indicated timepoints after the injection. One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s multiple comparisons test and log-rank test with Bonferroni multiple comparisons test. g, Therapeutic efficacy of iCAR-TCTL and DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL with a subcutaneous liver cancer model; treatment schedule of the liver cancer subcutaneous xenograft model. NSG mice were injected intraperitoneally with 2 × 105 JHH7 cells 3 days before treatment. In total, 1 × 107 iCAR-TCTL and DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL were injected intravenously on days 0 and 7. h, In vivo bioluminescence imaging of injected T cells in NSG mice treated with iCAR-TCTL, DGK-dKO-iCAR-TCTL. i, Total flux (photons s−1) of the injected iCAR-T cells in the JHH7 tumour was quantified at the indicated timepoints (n = 8, mean ± s.e.m.). Two-sided Student’s t-test.
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