Employing CRISPR-Cas9 to Enhance T Cell Effector Function

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As part of the adaptive immune system, T cells are critical to maintain immune homeostasis. T cells provide protective immunity by killing infected cells and combatting cancerous cells. To do so, T cells produce and secrete effector molecules, such as granzymes, perforin, and cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor α and interferon γ. However, in immune suppressive environments, such as tumors, T cells gradually lose the capacity to perform their effector function. One way T cell effector function can be enhanced is through genetic engineering with tools such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9). This protocol explains in a step-by-step fashion how to perform a controlled electroporation-based CRISPR experiment to enhance human T cell effector function. Of note, these steps are suitable for CRISPR-mediated genome editing in T cells in general and can thus also be used to study proteins of interest that do not influence T cell effector function.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:2782

Enthalten in:

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 2782(2024) vom: 16., Seite 195-208

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Freen-van Heeren, Julian J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

CRISPR
Cytokines
Flow cytometry
Genome editing
Journal Article
Single cell
T cells

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Date Completed 17.04.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/978-1-0716-3754-8_16

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM371115256