@misc{10481/76676, year = {2022}, month = {5}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/76676}, abstract = {Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells have achieved impressive outcomes for the treatment of relapsed and refractory B-lineage neoplasms.However, important limitations still remain due to severe adverse events (i.e., cytokine release syndrome and neuroinflammation) and relapse of 40%–50%of the treated patients.MostCAR-Tcells are generated using retroviral vectors with strong promoters that lead to high CAR expression levels, tonic signaling, premature exhaustion, and overstimulation, reducing efficacy and increasing side effects. Here, we show that lentiviral vectors (LVs) expressing the transgene through a WAS gene promoter (AW-LVs) closely mimic the T cell receptor (TCR)/CD3 expression kinetic upon stimulation. These AW-LVs can generate improved CAR-T cells as a consequence of theirmoderate andTCR-like expression profile. Compared with CAR-T cells generated with human elongation factor a (EF1a)-driven-LVs, AW-CAR-T cells exhibited lower tonic signaling, higher proportion of naive and stem cell memory T cells, less exhausted phenotype, and milder secretion of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-a) and interferon (IFN)-ɣ after efficient destruction of CD19+ lymphoma cells, both in vitro and in vivo.Moreover, we also showed their improved efficiency using an in vitro CD19+ pancreatic tumor model. We finally demonstrated the feasibility of large-scale manufacturing ofAW-CAR-T cells in good manufacturing practice (GMP)-like conditions. Based on these data, we propose the use of AW-LVs for the generation of improved CAR-T products.}, organization = {Spanish ISCIII Health Research Fund}, organization = {European Commission PI15/02015 PI18/00337 PI21/00298 RD21/0017/0004 PI18/00330 PI17/00672}, organization = {CSyF of the Junta de Andalucia FEDER/European Cohesion Fund (FSE) for Andalusia 2016000073391-TRA 2016000073332-TRA PI-57069 PA IDI-Bio326 CARTPI-0001-201 PECART-0031-2020 Red RANTECAR CAR-T 2019 00400200101918 PLEC2021-008094 PI-0014-2016 PEER-0286-2019}, organization = {Spanish Government PLEC2021-008094 00123009/SNEO-20191072}, organization = {Nicolas Monardes contracts from regional Ministry of Health 0006/2018 C2-0002-2019}, organization = {German Research Foundation (DFG) FPU16/05467 FPU17/02268 FPU17/04327 MCI DIN2018-010180}, organization = {Fundacion Andaluza Progreso y Salud}, organization = {German Research Foundation (DFG) PEJ-2018-001760-A}, organization = {Junta de Andalucia PE-0223-2018}, organization = {Biomedicine Programme of the University of Granada (Spain)}, publisher = {Cell Press}, title = {Physiological lentiviral vectors for the generation of improved CAR-T cells}, doi = {10.1016/j.omto.2022.05.003}, author = {Tristán Manzano, María and Maldonado Pérez, Noelia and Justicia Lirio, Pedro and Muñoz Fernández, Pilar and Cortijo Gutiérrez, Marina and Pavlovic, Kristina and Sánchez Hernández, Sabina and Aguilar González, Araceli and Marañón, Concepción and Marchal Corrales, Juan Antonio and Benabdellah, Karim and Martín Molina, Francisco}, }