Abstract:
The invention relates to methods of treatment of a solid tumor in a patient in need thereof, comprising administering to the patient: (i) an effective amount of engineered immune cells originating from a donor expressing at their cell surface a Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) directed against Fibroblast Activation Protein (FAP), and (ii) an effective amount of an immunotherapy treatment that elicits an immune response in the patient.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a new potency assay for characterizing the quality and activity of an immune cell expressing a chimeric antigen receptor, the kit to carry out this assay and uses thereof.
Abstract:
The present invention is in the field of genetic editing tools and methods of genetic engineering. It relates to the engineering of rare-cutting endonucleases designed to contract highly repetitive motives in chromosomes, which are at the origin of certain genetic diseases, in particular the so-called “triplet repeat diseases”, such as the Huntington disease. The invention encompasses the method for contracting the repetitive motives, the rare-cutting endonucleases for use to contract repetitive motives in a gene subjected to repeat disorder, the polynucleotides and vectors encoding thereof as well as the resulting pharmaceutical compositions.
Abstract:
Methods for improving or modulating targeting specificity of TALE proteins by introducing alternative RVDs into their modular nucleic acid binding domains. Polynucleotides encoding TALE proteins having alternative targeting specificity towards a nucleic acid target sequence. TALE proteins having alternative targeting specificity towards a nucleic acid target sequence and methods of making and using them.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide an electroporation method for treating vesicles with exogenous material for insertion of the exogenous material into the vesicles which includes the steps of: a. retaining a suspension of the vesicles and the exogenous material in a treatment volume in a chamber which includes electrodes, wherein the chamber has a geometric factor (cm−1 ) defined by the quotient of the electrode gap squared (cm2) divided by the chamber volume (cm3), wherein the geometric factor is less than or equal to 0.1 cm−1, wherein the suspension of the vesicles and the exogenous material is in a medium which is adjusted such that the medium has conductivity in a range spanning 50 microSiemens/cm to 500 microSiemens/cm, wherein the suspension is enclosed in the chamber during treatment, and b. treating the suspension enclosed in the chamber with one or more pulsed electric fields. With the method, the treatment volume of the suspension is scalable, and the time of treatment of the vesicles in the chamber is substantially uniform.
Abstract:
A single chain homing endonuclease, comprising a first variant of I-CreI having the amino acid sequence of accession number pdb 1g9y and a second variant of I-CreI variant having the amino acid sequence of accession number pdb 1g9y in a single polypeptide.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to polypeptides and more particularly to Transcription Activator-Like Effector derived proteins that allow to efficiently target and/or process nucleic acids. The present invention also concerns methods to use these proteins. The present invention also relates to vectors, compositions and kits in which RVD domains and Transcription Activator-Like Effector (TALE) proteins of the present invention are used.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods for targeted insertion of an exogenous sequence at a genomic locus in a cell, wherein said insertion is induced by a sequence-specific endonuclease that has cleavage activity at said locus, at least 5 hours before the introduction into said cell of a DNA template comprising said exogenous sequence.
Abstract:
An object of the invention is to provide an electroporation method for treating vesicles with exogenous material for insertion of the exogenous material into the vesicles which includes the steps of: a. retaining a suspension of the vesicles and the exogenous material in a treatment volume in a chamber which includes electrodes, wherein the chamber has a geometric factor (cm−1) defined by the quotient of the electrode gap squared (cm2) divided by the chamber volume (cm3), wherein the geometric factor is less than or equal to 0.1 cm−1, wherein the suspension of the vesicles and the exogenous material is in a medium which is adjusted such that the medium has conductivity in a range spanning 50 microSiemens/cm to 500 microSiemens/cm, wherein the suspension is enclosed in the chamber during treatment, and b. treating the suspension enclosed in the chamber with one or more pulsed electric fields. With the method, the treatment volume of the suspension is scalable, and the time of treatment of the vesicles in the chamber is substantially uniform.
Abstract:
Methods for improving or modulating targeting specificity of TALE proteins by introducing alternative RVDs into their modular nucleic acid binding domains. Polynucleotides encoding TALE proteins having alternative targeting specificity towards a nucleic acid target sequence. TALE proteins having alternative targeting specificity towards a nucleic acid target sequence and methods of making and using them.