METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR INDUCING NOTCH SIGNALING IN TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220267437A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-25

    申请号:US17631399

    申请日:2020-07-28

    IPC分类号: C07K16/28 C07K14/705

    摘要: The disclosure provides methods for inducing Notch signaling in a targeted manner within aggregations of cells. The methods include contacting the aggregation of cells with a bi-specific molecule that facilitates trans-binding of Notch receptor. The bi-specific molecule comprising a cell-targeting domain that specifically binds to a cell-specific antigen expressed in the aggregation of cells, and a Notch-binding domain that specifically binds to Notch receptor. In some aspects, the disclosed methods and reagents provide methods of promoting pro-inflammatory states in tumor micro-environments.

    SPATIAL MAPPING OF CELLS AND CELL TYPES IN COMPLEX TISSUES

    公开(公告)号:US20220106623A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-07

    申请号:US17296038

    申请日:2019-11-21

    发明人: Jason Bielas

    摘要: Systems and methods to tag cells in a tissue sample with spatial identifiers, so that spatial reconstruction of cell locations within a tissue can be achieved after tissue disaggregation are described. The systems and methods allow the control or directing of specific spatial identifiers spatially within or throughout a tissue to individual cells or to a small population of cells so that cell position can be determined by computational deconvolution of the spatial identifiers after tissue disaggregation. The systems and methods can be combined with single cell expression analysis to correlate cell types with cell location within a structure, such as a tumor.

    ENHANCED GENERATION OF CYTOTOXIC T-LYMPHOCYTES BY IL-21 MEDIATED FOXP3 SUPPRESSION

    公开(公告)号:US20220073879A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-10

    申请号:US17400038

    申请日:2021-08-11

    摘要: A method of carrying out adoptive immunotherapy by administering a subject an antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) preparation in a treatment-effective amount is described. In the method, the CTL preparation is preferably administered as a preparation of an in vitro antigen-stimulated and expanded primate CTL population, the CTL population: (i) depleted of FoxP3+T lymphocytes prior to antigen stimulation; (ii) antigen-stimulated in vitro in the presence of interleukin-21; or (iii) both depleted of FoxP3+T lymphocytes prior to antigen stimulation and then antigen-stimulated in vitro in the presence of interleukin-21. Methods of preparing such compositions, and compositions useful for carrying out the adoptive immunotherapy, are also described.