Natural killer cells in adoptive cell therapy: current landscape of genetic engineering strategies.

ABSTRACT: Among adoptive cell-based immunotherapies, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy has shown promising results in cancer treatment. Treatment with CAR-T cells has produced remarkable clinical responses, especially in cases of relapsed and refractory leukemia and lymphoma. However, CAR-T cell therapy still presents several limitations, including some safety concerns related to neurotoxicity and aggressive inflammatory responses. As an alternative to T-cells, natural killer (NK) cells have been developed as an attractive option for efficient cancer immunotherapy. As they do not express T cell receptor (TCR), NK cell-based therapies are not associated with cytokine release syndrome (CRS) or graft versus host disease (GvHD), which enables a safer therapy and the ability to generate an allogene

SUBMITTER: Buron M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12477870 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature