The CD3-zeta chimeric antigen receptor overcomes TCR Hypo-responsiveness of human terminal late-stage T cells.

Adoptive therapy of malignant diseases with tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells showed remarkable efficacy in recent trials. Repetitive T cell receptor (TCR) engagement of target antigen, however, inevitably ends up in hypo-responsive cells with terminally differentiated KLRG-1(+) CD57(+) CD7(-) phenot...

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Main Authors: Gunter Rappl, Tobias Riet, Sabine Awerkiew, Annette Schmidt, Andreas A Hombach, Herbert Pfister, Hinrich Abken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3264628?pdf=render