Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Sequence and structural determinants of efficacious de novo chimeric antigen receptors
doi: 10.64898/2025.12.12.694033
Figure Lengend Snippet: (a) Representative gating strategy for CAR Jurkat and CAR T cell co-culture assays used to quantify proportion of cells with CD69 activation. (b) CAR construct used in CAR Jurkat and CAR T assays containing an EF1α promoter, CD8 signal peptide, de novo minibinder, CD8 hinge, 4-1BB domain, P2A sequence, and GFP reporter. (c) Predicted structures of two de novo CAR binders designed by RFDiffusion. Binders are colored by per-residue AlphaFold2 predicted Local Distance Difference Test (pLDDT) metrics. (d) CAR Jurkat co-cultures expressing L10 and L11 BCMA-specific de novo minibinders with BCMA⁻ and BCMA⁺ cancer cell lines. (e) %CD69 activation was quantified for CARs expressing no binder (Ø, black), C11D5.3 (red), or B5 minibinder (dark red), in either Jurkat cells or primary T-cells in co-cultures with CD19⁻ and CD19⁺ cancer cell lines, comparing Jurkat and primary CAR T responses within each binder condition. P values calculated using Student’s t -test.
Article Snippet: The following day, cells were washed once with 1× PBS-B (0.25% BSA) and incubated with varying concentrations of biotinylated recombinant antigen BCMA (Sino Biological, Cat. 10620-H40H-B), CD22 (Sino Biological, Cat. 11958-H49H-B), or CD19 (Sino Biological, Cat. 11880-H49H-B) for 1 hour at room temperature.
Techniques: Co-Culture Assay, Activation Assay, Construct, Sequencing, Residue, Expressing