Journal: Cancer Communications
Article Title: Enhancement of CAR‐T cell activity against cholangiocarcinoma by simultaneous knockdown of six inhibitory membrane proteins
doi: 10.1002/cac2.12452
Figure Lengend Snippet: EGFR‐CAR T cells and B7H3‐CAR T cells exhibited general antitumor activity in cholangiocarcinoma cell lines. (A‐B) Detection of tumor tissue antigens collected from patients with cholangiocarcinoma by IHC staining. The left and right panels of A displayed representative EGFR and B7H3 expression in normal, para‐carcinoma area, and tumor zone with enlarged view (5x, scale bar = 200 μm; 20x, scale bar = 50 μm). Statistical analysis of EGFR and B7H3 antigens scores in normal, para‐carcinoma and carcinoma tissues (B, n = 20). (C) Schematic representation of the lentiviral vectors carrying an EGFR‐specific 3 rd generation CAR moiety (EGFR‐CAR) and a B7H3‐specific 3 rd generation CAR moiety (B7H3‐CAR). (D) Immunoblotting analysis of EGFR‐CAR and B7H3‐CAR expression were performed with anti‐flag tag. The positive control was GP120‐CAR. (E‐F) Detection cytotoxic activities of the EGFR‐CAR‐T cells and the B7H3‐CAR‐T cells with TFK‐1 cells and HuCCT1 cells by LDH assay. The negative control was Jurkat cells without EGFR and B7H3 expression ( n = 3, healthy donors). Experiments were performed independently at least 3 times. One‐way ANOVA was used in Tukey's multiple comparison test. Experimental data are expressed as mean ± SEM. *, P < 0.05; **, P < 0.01; ***, P < 0.001. Abbreviations: CAR, chimeric antigen receptor T; EGFR, epidermal growth factor receptor; B7H3, B7 homolog 3; GP120, gp120 antigen; IHC, immunohistochemistry; LDH, lactate dehydrogenase; SEM, standard error of the mean.
Article Snippet: Human embryonic kidney cell line HEK293T, human cholangiocarcinoma cell line TFK‐1 and HuCCT1, and human acute T‐lymphocytic leukemia cell line Jurkat were obtained from American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA).
Techniques: Activity Assay, Immunohistochemistry, Expressing, Western Blot, FLAG-tag, Positive Control, Lactate Dehydrogenase Assay, Negative Control, Comparison