Efficacy of Targeting SARS-CoV-2 by CAR-NK Cells

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19 disease, is one of greatest global pandemics in history. No effective treatment is currently available for severe COVID-19 disease. One strategy for implementing cell-based immunity involves the use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology. Unlike CAR T cells, which need to be developed using primary T cells derived from COVID-19 patients with lymphopenia, clinical success of CAR NK cell immunotherapy is possible through the development of allogeneic, universal, and 'off-the-shelf' CAR-NK cells from a third party, which will significantly broaden the application and reduce costs. Here, we develop a novel approach for the generation of CAR-NK cells for targeting SARS-CoV-2. CAR-NK cells were generated using the scFv domain of CR3022 (henceforth, CR3022-CAR-NK), a broadly neutralizing antibody for SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2. CR3022-CAR-NK cells can specifically bind to RBD of SARS-CoV-2 and pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2 S protein, and can be activated by pseudotyped SARS-CoV-2-S viral particles in vitro. Further, CR3022-CAR-NK cells can specifically kill pseudo-SARS-CoV-2 infected target cells. Thus, 'off-the-shelf' CR3022-CAR-NK cells may have the potential to treat patients with severe COVID-19 disease.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2020) vom: 12. Aug.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ma, Minh [VerfasserIn]
Badeti, Saiaditya [VerfasserIn]
Geng, Ke [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Dongfang [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 28.09.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1101/2020.08.11.247320

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313917590