Strategy to prevent epitope masking in CAR.CD19+ B-cell leukemia blasts.
Concetta QuintarelliMarika GuercioSimona ManniIolanda BoffaMatilde SinibaldiStefano Di CeccaSimona CarusoZeinab AbbaszadehAntonio CameraBiancamaria CembrolaRoselia CicconeAlberto OrfaoLourdes Martin-MartinSara Gutierrez-HerreroMaria Herrero-GarciaGiovanni CazzanigaVittorio NunesSimona SongiaPaolo MarcatiliFrederikke I MarinMarco RuellaValentina BertainaLuciana VintiFrancesca Del BufaloMattia AlgeriPietro MerliBiagio De AngelisFranco LocatelliPublished in: Journal for immunotherapy of cancer (2022)
Taken together, these data suggest that a VL-VH SL may result in a safe CAR-T product, even when manufacturing starts from biological materials characterized by heavy contamination of leukemia blasts.