ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Engineering CAR-T cells to overcome glycosylation-driven tumour resistance
T cells engineered to express tumour-specific chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) proved effective against B-cell tumours. However, as the technology moves to solid cancers, clinical responses have not been as robust. In this setting, several barriers need to be overcome, including poor tumour recognition and a highly immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment (TME). Altered glycosylation is a hallmark of cancer, often manifesting as incomplete synthesis of O-glycans and increased branching of N-glycans. Glycosylation can mask epitopes to antibodies recognition and suppress anticancer immunity. My Unit was the first to report that N-glycans protect tumours from CAR-T cells and that…
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