202 results about "Immune effector" patented technology

The invention provides compositions and methods for treating cancer by using immune effector cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells) engineered to conditionally express an agent which enhances the immune effector response of an immune effector cell that expresses a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR). The conditional agents described herein include agents that target a cancer associated antigen, e.g., a CAR, agents that inhibit one or more checkpoint inhibitors of the immune response, and a cytokine.

The invention provides a specific T cell receptor targeting KRAS G12V mutant epitope peptide (such as an amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2) and anti-tumor application of the specific T cell receptor. The specific T cell receptor is composed of two peptide chains alpha and beta and can be specifically combined with a VVGAVGVGK-HLA-A * 11: 01 compound. The invention also provides an antigen binding fragment of the specific T cell receptor, a nucleic acid sequence for coding the T cell receptor, a vector containing the nucleic acid sequence, an engineered cell for expressing the T cell receptor, a composition containing the T cell receptor and application thereof. In addition, the invention also provides a method for screening the KRAS G12V specific T cell receptor. The specific T cell receptor and the antigen binding fragment thereof provided by the invention can be used as an immune effect activator to stimulate the immune response of a body, so that the effect of resisting diseases such as tumors and the like is achieved.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for preventing graft versus host disease (GVHD) in subjects receiving donor cells. In particular, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptides are disclosed that can be used with adoptive cell transfer suppress alloreactive donor cells. Also disclosed are immune effector cells, such as T cells or Natural Killer (NK) cells, that are engineered to express these CARs. Therefore, also disclosed are methods of suppressing alloreactive donor cells in a subject receiving transplant donor cells that involves adoptive transfer of the disclosed immune effector cells engineered to express the disclosed CARs.

The invention provides immune effector cells (for example, T cells, NK cells) that express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and compositions and methods thereof.

Feline, canine, and equine antibody variants and uses thereof, as well as compositions and methods for improving therapeutic monoclonal antibodies by modulating immune effector functions and antibody variants using those methods and compositions.

Provided herein are chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) for cancer therapy, and more particularly, CARs containing a scFv from an anti-ROR-1 monoclonal antibody. Provided are immune effector cells containing such CARs, and methods of treating proliferative disorders.

Compositions and methods for treating diseases associated with expression of a cancer associated antigen are disclosed. The invention also relates to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) specific to a cancer associated antigen as described herein, SHP inhibitory molecules, vectors encoding the same, and recombinant immune effector cells comprising the CARs and SHP inhibitory molecules. Methods of administering a genetically modified immune effector cell expressing a CAR that comprises an antigen binding domain that binds to a cancer associated antigen and a SHP inhibitory polypeptide are also disclosed.

The invention provides a live pig immune function prediction system and method based on artificial intelligence. The system comprises a detection device used for detecting intestinal flora detection data corresponding to a plurality of omics and detection result data of a plurality of metabolic markers of a live pig in a stress state; the edge optimization decision device is used for performing feature extraction according to the detection result data to obtain metabolic feature data; the prediction and display device is used for simulating an expression relationship between the activity of a key metabolic enzyme and immune effector molecules of the live pig in a stress state according to the intestinal flora detection data to obtain metabolic-immune interaction data, storing the metabolic-immune interaction data in a metabolic-immune database, and displaying the metabolic-immune interaction data in the metabolic-immune database. According to the metabolism characteristic data and metabolism and immunity interaction data stored in a metabolism and immunity database, determining a dose effect relationship between the functional amino acid and the immunity phenotype to obtain metabolism spectrum characteristics of the live pig in a stress state, and according to the metabolism spectrum characteristics, predicting, generating and displaying an amino acid ratio or daily ration intervention strategy.

The present disclosure features modified immune effector cells (e.g., T cells or NK cells) having increased resistance to inhibition of an immunosuppressive agent relative to unmodified immune effector cells, compositions comprising the same, and methods of using the same.

Provided herein are chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) for cancer therapy, and more particularly, CARs containing a scFv from a CD33 monoclonal antibody. Provided are immune effector cells containing such CARs, and methods of treating proliferative disorders such as acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and relapsed or refractory AML.

The present invention relates generally to the use of LSD1 inhibitors in connection with use and manufacture of immune effector cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells), e.g., engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), to treat a subject having a disease, e.g., a disease associated with expression of a tumor antigen.

The present disclosure provides compositions and methods comprising recombinant particles suitable for specifically delivering one or more chimeric antigen receptors to immune effector cells in vivo.

The present application provides single-domain antibodies targeting BCMA, and chimeric antigen receptors (such as monovalent CAR, and multivalent CAR including bi-epitope CAR) comprising one or more anti-BCMA single-domain antibodies. Further provided are engineered immune effector cells (such as T cells) comprising the chimeric antigen receptors. Pharmaceutical compositions, kits and methods of treating cancer are also provided.

Provided are anti-Claudin-6 antibodies (e.g., VHH domain antibodies), and a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) that binds to Claudin-6 comprising same in an extracellular antigen binding domain, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular signaling domain. Immune effector cells transduced with the disclosed CAR constructs can be used for cancer immunotherapy.

The present invention relates to human CD3 antigen-binding polypeptides and their preparation and use in the treatment and / or diagnosis of various diseases, and also relates to bispecific antibody molecules capable of activating immune effector cells and their use in diagnosis and / or treatment of various diseases.

The present invention relates to combination therapies for modulating the tumor microenvironment and enhancing infiltration of immune cells into the tumor microenvironment with a bispecific anti-EGFR / c-Met antibody in combination with a PD-(L) 1 axis inhibitor. The invention also relates to combination therapies for inhibiting EGFR and MET signaling pathways in tumor cells, and targeting tumor cells expressing EGFR and MET to be disrupted by immune effector cells such as natural killer cells and macrophages by antibody dependent cytotoxicity (ADCC) and cell gnawing mechanisms, respectively.

The invention relates to a CD19 and CD70 targeted double-target chimeric antigen receptor and application thereof, the CD19 and CD70 targeted double-target chimeric antigen receptor comprises an extracellular antigen binding domain, a hinge region, a transmembrane domain, an intracellular costimulatory domain and an intracellular signal transduction domain, and the extracellular antigen binding domain has specific binding ability to CD19 and CD70. The double-target chimeric antigen receptor structure has a treatment effect of targeting double antigens or single antigens, can be used for preparing immune effector cells targeting CD19 and CD70, and provides a treatment or improvement approach for diseases related to CD19 and CD70 double expression or CD19 / CD70 single expression.

Methods are provided for targeting cells for depletion, including without limitation tumor cells such as solid tumor cells, in a regimen comprising contacting the tumor and immune effector cells with an effective dose of an anti-MSDC agent that reduces the abundance, immunosuppressive activity, or tumor recruitment of CXCR2+ granulocytic-myeloid derived suppressor cells, for example, an inhibitor of CXCR2; in combination with an effective dose of an inhibitor of CD47 / SIRPα signaling.

Disclosed are methods and compositions related to chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that recognize Tissue Factor (TF). Specifically, disclosed are CARs that comprise fVII or a functional fragment thereof. Also disclosed are immune effector cells comprising the CARs disclosed herein.

Humanized monoclonal anti-nuclear antibodies with enhanced binding affinity and tumor uptake are presented. Particularly preferred antibodies are site-directed mutants of H-CDR3 with up to about 8-fold improvement in affinity as compared to the non-humanized non-mutated form. In further preferred aspects, such humanized antibodies are employed in tumor necrosis targeted delivery of immune modulators, immune effectors, and other therapeutic or diagnostic agents.

The present disclosure pertains to methods of making immune effector cells (for example, T cells or NK cells) that express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), and compositions generated by such methods. Also disclosed herein are methods of using such compositions for treating a disease, for example, cancer, in a subject.

The invention provides a nucleic acid construct which comprises an immune response regulatory sequence and a coding sequence of a reporter gene driven by a promoter sequence, and the immune response regulatory sequence comprises a transcription factor binding regulatory element RE which is co-stimulated and regulated by transcription factors AP-1 and CD28. The invention also provides an in-vitro immune effector function reporter gene cell model containing the nucleic acid construct, and the cell model can realize effector function activity determination performance of sensitive and potent signals so as to evaluate ADCC and ADCP killing action mechanisms and titers mediated by antibody-dependent disease cells designed by an Fc structural domain of a therapeutic antibody product. In addition, the immunosuppression and regulation efficacy of a targeted CTLA-4 or Abatacept mediated treatment method on a CD28 co-activation pathway can be evaluated.

This application provides a BCMA-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising a BCMA-binding domain and an intracellular costimulatory domain derived from DAP10. Also provided are engineered immune effector cells (e.g., NK cells) containing the chimeric antigen receptor. Pharmaceutical compositions, kits, and methods for treating cancer are also provided.

The present invention provides anti-claudin 18.2 nanobodies or their binding fragments. The antibody exhibits good specificity, and immune effector cells targeting claudin 18.2 prepared using the antibody show good therapeutic efficacy in treating or improving diseases with positive claudin 18.2 expression.

Provided herein are antibodies and antigen-binding fragment thereof targeting GPC3, and chimeric antigen receptors having one or more anti-GPC3 antigen-binding fragments thereof. Further provided are engineered immune effector cells (e.g., T cells) expressing the chimeric antigen receptors and methods of use thereof.

The present invention relates to soluble multi-domain binding molecules comprising T cell receptors (TCR) having specificity for an antigen, an immunoglobulin Fc domain or an albumin-binding moiety; and an immune effector domain. Such multi-domain binding molecules are advantageous because they display improved half-life while retaining function.

Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions for treatment of cancer, autoimmune disorders, and / or infectious disease. In particular embodiments, antigen expression on target cells is increased with epigenetic modulators in conjunction with immune effector cells engineered to express a heterologous molecule that targets the target cells. In specific embodiments, the epigenetic modulators are used in conjunction with NK cells expressing a chimeric antigen receptor that targets a cancer antigen, an antigen associated with an autoimmune disorder, or an antigen associated with a pathogen.

The invention provides a system that comprises pharmaceutical agents for use in immunotherapy for reducing the side-effects of an antigen-recognizing receptor against antigen-expressing non-target cells in an individual. The system includes an antigen-recognizing receptor that specifically recognizes an antigen on target cells and at least on one hematopoietic cell type in the individual. The antigen-recognizing receptor is exemplified by chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) be expressed on the surface of an immune effector cells. The system also includes hematopoietic cells resistant to recognition of the same antigen by the antigen-recognizing receptor.

Provided are therapies comprising immune effector cells, such as T cells, engineered to express an antigen receptor, such as a T cell receptor or a chimeric antigen receptor.SOLUTION: It is demonstrated that antigen receptor-engineered immune effector cells can be generated in vitro / ex vivo as well as in vitro by delivering a nucleic acid encoding an antigen receptor for genetic modification to a cell using a particle comprising the nucleic acid and a targeting molecule for targeting the immune effector cell, wherein the targeting molecule is a designed ankyrin repeat protein (DARPin). In particular, DARPins are provided that are high affinity binders for CD8 binding to CD8 receptors on human and non-human primate (NHP) cells. Nanoparticles functionalized with CD8 targeting DARPins (CD8 - DARPins) can deliver genes exclusively and specifically to human CD8 + T cells in vitro and in vivo.SELECTED DRAWING: None

A method for treating a tumor, characterized by administering to an individual having a tumor immune effector cells expressing a receptor recognizing a tumor antigen and gemcitabine. A kit for treating a tumor, characterized by comprising: 1) immune effector cells expressing a receptor recognizing a tumor antigen; 2) gemcitabine; 3) a container for containing the above 1) and 2); and 4) a written notice for treating a tumor using the kit.