Optimized connecting peptide combination and application thereof

Abstract

The invention belongs to the technical field of gene engineering, and particularly relates to an optimized connecting peptide, a bispecific single-chain antibody connected with the optimized connecting peptide, a CAR (Chimeric Antigen Receptor) structure containing the bispecific single-chain antibody, an expression vector, an immune cell and application. In the bispecific single-chain antibody, two linkers are used for connecting heavy chains or light chains of two single-chain antibodies; the construction of the CAR structure overcomes the technical effect defect of a double-target CAR in the prior art; two different tumour antigens can be targeted at the same time; killing of tumour cells is improved; and the probability of immune escape of the tumour cells is reduced.

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technical field [0001] The invention belongs to the technical field of genetic engineering, and specifically relates to an optimized connecting peptide and its linked bispecific single-chain antibody, as well as a CAR structure comprising the bispecific single-chain antibody, an expression vector, immune cells and applications. Background technique [0002] CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptor T) cell therapy has achieved remarkable results in the treatment of hematological malignancies. However, due to the heterogeneity of tumors, especially solid tumors, more than one target antigen is often expressed on the surface of tumor cells, and with the progress of research, researchers have also found that a small number of patients treated with CAR-T cells have down-regulated or mutated tumor cells and The CAR-T target antigen expressed on its surface escapes (Robbie G. Majzner et al. (2018) TumorAntigen Escape from CAR T-cell Therapy), which eventually leads to poor therapeutic effe...

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However, due to the heterogeneity of tumors, especially solid tumors, more than one target antigen is often expressed on the surface of tumor cells, and with the progress of research, researchers have also found that tumor cells are down-regulated or mutated in a small number of patients treated with CAR-T cells and The CAR-T target antigen expressed on its surface escapes (Robbie G.Majzner et al. (2018) TumorAntigen Escape from CAR T-cell Therapy), which eventually leads to poor therapeutic effect and recurrence

Therefore, it is necessary to design a CAR structure targeting multiple targets. If two CARs with different targets are simply expressed at the same time, but different CAR structures have different infectivity, a variety of CAR-T cell subsets will be produced, which is not conducive to the clinical application of the product. Application; if only two simple CAR structures with different targets are connected in series in one carrier, the CAR carrier is too large to transduce T cells, and different structures involve different CAR carrier virus preparation capabilities and different CAR transduction capabilities. There are many factors such as different stimuli produced by T cells and different curative effects

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