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A genome-scale gain-of-function CRISPR screen in CD8 T cells identifies proline metabolism as a means to enhance CAR-T therapy(Part 1)

ABSTRACT: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell-based immunotherapy for cancer and immunological diseases has made great strides, but it still faces multiple hurdles. Finding the right molecular targets to engineer T cells toward a desired function has broad implications for the armamentarium of T cell-centered therapies. Here, we developed a dead-guide RNA (dgRNA)-based CRISPR activation screen in primary CD8+ T cells, and identified gain-of-function (GOF) targets for CAR-T engineering. Targeted knock-in or overexpression of a lead target, PRODH2, enhanced CAR-T-based killing and in vivo efficacy in multiple cancer models. Transcriptomics and metabolomics in CAR-T cells revealed that augmenting PRODH2 expression re-shaped broad and distinct gene expression and metabolic programs. Mitochondrial, metabolic and immunological analyses showed that PRODH2 engineering enhances the metabolic and immune functions of CAR-T cells against cancer. Together these findings provide a system for identification of GOF immune boosters, and demonstrate PRODH2 as a target to enhance CAR-T efficacy.

ORGANISM(S): Human Homo Sapiens

TISSUE(S): Cultured Cells

DISEASE(S): Cancer

SUBMITTER: Lupeng Ye

PROVIDER: ST002085 | MetabolomicsWorkbench | Sat Feb 12 00:00:00 GMT 2022

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