1108 results about "Antigen receptor" patented technology

Provided are a chimeric antigen receptor comprising an extracellular domain capable of binding to an antigen, a transmembrane domain and at least one intracellular domain, the chimeric antigen receptor being characterized in that an intracellular domain of a glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor (GITR) is contained as the intracellular domain; a nucleic acid encoding the chimeric antigen receptor; a cell expressing the chimeric antigen receptor; and a method for producing the cell.

The present disclosure provides a heterodimeric, conditionally active chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and a nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding the CAR. The present disclosure provides cells genetically modified to produce the CAR. A CAR of the present disclosure can be used in various methods, which are also provided.

The present invention relates to Chimeric Antigen Receptors (CAR) that are recombinant chimeric proteins able to redirect immune cell specificity and reactivity toward selected membrane antigens, and more particularly in which extracellular ligand binding is a scFV derived from a BCMA monoclonal antibody, conferring specific immunity against BCMA positive cells. The engineered immune cells endowed with such CARs are particularly suited for treating lymphomas, multiple myeloma and leukemia.

The invention relates to a chimeric antigen receptor with stable antigen binding units. The chimeric antigen receptor comprises the extracellular antigen binding units, trans-membrane domains and intracellular co-stimulation signal domains. The antigen binding units can be stably expressed as compared with specific tumor targets and comprise heavy chains and light chains which are connected with one another by hinges of SEQ ID NO.2 (sequence identity number.2) amino acid sequence codes. The invention further relates to cells for expressing the receptor and application of the receptor.

The present invention provides for methods and compositions for enhancing the immune response toward cancers and pathogens. It relates to immunoresponsive cells bearing antigen receptors, which can be chimeric antigen receptors (CARS), which express introduced ligands for immunomodulatory molecules. In particular embodiments, engineered immunoresponsive cells are antigen-directed and resist immunosuppression and/or have enhances immune-activating properties.

The invention relates to an engineered CD20 targeting NKT cell and its preparation method and application. The cell is an NKT cell modified by a chimeric antigen receptor CD20ScFv-CD8-CD137-CD3zeta. An amino acid sequence of the chimeric antigen receptor is as shown in SEQID NO.1 in a sequence table. The preparation method comprises the following steps: firstly constructing a chimeric antigen receptor pWPT-CD20ScFv-CD8-CD137-CD3zeta, carrying out infection of the NKT cell, inducing in vitro and carrying out amplification culture so as to obtain the engineered CD20 targeting NKT cell. During advanced CD20 positive malignant tumors, the engineered CD20 targeting NKT cell can be used to obviously prolong survival time of immune cells in a patient's body, enhance the immune cells' targeting recognition capability of tumor antigen and reinforce the killing activity of tumor cells.

The invention provides a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) (a) an antigen binding domain of HN1 or SS, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular T cell signaling domain, or (b) an antigen binding domain of SS1, a transmembrane domain, an intracellular T cell signaling domain, and a granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor 2 leader. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, or antigen binding portions thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions relating to the CARs are disclosed. Methods of detecting the presence of cancer in a mammal and methods of treating or preventing cancer in a mammal are also disclosed.

The current invention provides monocytic cells transfected with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to selectively home to tumors and upon homing differentiate into dendritic cells capable of activating immunity which is inhibitory to said tumor. In one embodiment of the invention, monocytic cells are transfected with a construct encoding an antigen binding domain, a transcellular or structural domain, and an intracellular signaling domain. In one specific aspect of the invention, the antigen binding domain interacts with sufficient affinity to a tumor antigen, capable of triggering said intracellular domain to induce an activation signal to induce monocyte differentiation into DC.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biology and new medicines and discloses a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) iRGD-scFv (G250)-CD8-CD28-CD137-CD3zeta and application thereof. The chimeric antigen receptor is formed by series connection of tumor penetrating peptide iRGD, a single-chain antibody of a humanized anti-human renal carcinoma antigen G250, a hinge region and a transmembrane region of CD8, and intracellular signal structural domains of CD28, CD137 and CD3zeta. The chimeric antigen receptor can be used for modifying T lymphocytes, and the modified T lymphocytes can be used for renal carcinoma treatment.

The invention provides improved compositions for adoptive T cell therapies for B cell related conditions.

The invention provides a BCMA-based (B cell maturation antigen-based) chimeric antigen receptor, comprising following cis-form cascade domains: CD8a leader region, scFv fragment BCMA scFv of anti-BCMA antibody, CD8a hinge region and transmembrane region, CD28 intracellular signal domain and CD3 Zeta intracellular signal domain; the CD3 Zeta intracellular signal domain is wild CD3 Zetaintracellular signal domain or mutant CD3 Zeta mut intracellular signal domain; the BCMA-based chimeric antigen receptor can enhance anti-apoptotic capability of T-cells and enhance CAR T-cell and antigen bonding and signal conduction; T-cells with the BCMA-based chimeric antigen receptor show good tumor targeting performance in in-vivo experiments, tumors diminish significantly after two weeks of dosage, and the T-cells have excellent therapeutic effect in vivo.

The invention relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) scaffolds comprising: a target binding domain; a spacer region; a transmembrane domain; and an intracellular effector domain, wherein the spacer region comprises at least one, or multiples of, domains 2, 3 or 4 or a combination thereof of a CD4 molecule. The invention also relates to polynucleotides and expression vectors encoding said CAR scaffold and immunomodulatory cells comprising said CAR scaffold. The invention also relates to methods of engineering an immunomodulatory cell to comprise said CAR scaffold

The invention discloses a nucleic acid for coding a chimeric antigen receptor protein expressed on the surface of the human T lymphocyte. The chimeric antigen receptor protein comprises an extracellular binding domain, a transmembrane domain and an intracellular signal domain, and the extracellular binding domain, the transmembrane domain and the intracellular signal domain are orderly connected. The extracellular binding domain comprises a single-chain antibody scFv (epidermal growth factor receptor EGFR) for specific recognition of 287th-302th amino acid epitopes of EGFR.

Disclosed are compositions and methods related to rendering ineffective Th1 T cells resistant to the inhibitory cytokine milieu present in a cancer microenvironment. Tumor-specific T cells are modified to employ a chimeric receptor that binds inhibitory/suppressive cytokines and converts their intracellular consequences to a Th1 immunostimulatory/activating signal. The T cells employ a chimeric antigen receptor having exodomains for IL10, IL13 and/or IL4 fused with the signal transducing endodomains for IL2 and/or IL7.

The invention relates to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and application thereof. The CAR comprises BCMA (B-cell maturation antigen) binding structural domains, transmembrane structural domains, oneor a plurality of co-simulation structural domains and intracellular signal transduction structural domains. The BCMA binding structural domains comprise heavy chain complementary determining regionsHCDR 1-3, and amino acid sequences of the HCDR 1-3 are sequentially shown as SEQ ID NO:1-3.

The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating cancer in a human. The invention includes relates to administering a genetically modified T cell expressing a CAR having an antigen binding domain, a transmembrane domain, a CD2 signaling domain, and a CD3 zeta signaling domain. The invention also includes incorporating CD2 into the CAR to alter the cytokine production of CAR-T cells in both negative and positive directions.

The invention provides a targeting chimeric antigen receptor. The chimeric antigen receptor is formed by serially connecting a CD8 alpha signal peptide, CD19ScFv, a CD8 alpha hinge region, a CD28 transmembrane domain and an intracellular signal structural domain, an intracellular signal structural domain of 41BB and an intracellular signal structural domain of CD3 zeta,. The invention further provides a targeting chimeric antigen receptor modified immune cell and a preparation method thereof, as well as application of the targeting chimeric antigen receptor modified immune cell in preparation of antitumor related drugs. A gene sequence for promoting proliferation and activation of T cells is added in a targeting chimeric antigen receptor structure, so that the condition that the T cells can proliferate after entering a human body can be guaranteed, and a more lasting tumor killing effect, more accurate treatment, more accurate targeting and wider tumor killing range are realized; meanwhile, the targeting chimeric antigen receptor modified immune cell is lower in cost and easy to popularize.