Reconocimiento de tumores de precisión por células T con circuitos combinatorios de detección de antígenos

Kole T Roybal1, Levi J Rupp1, Leonardo Morsut1

  • 1Department of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.

Cell
|February 3, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Las células T diseñadas con circuitos de doble receptor AND-gate apuntan con precisión a los tumores que expresan dos antígenos. Este enfoque mejora la seguridad al preservar los tejidos sanos y ampliar las opciones de inmunoterapia contra el cáncer.

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