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Table 1 Overview of CAR-NK studies to date using cell lines

From: Chimeric antigen receptor natural killer (CAR-NK) cell design and engineering for cancer therapy

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Reference: first author (journal, year)

Effector cell

Vehicle

Target

generation

Activation signal

retro

lenti

mRNA

plasmid

transposon

1

2

3

1

Uherek (Blood 2002)

NK-92

x

    

HER2

x

  

CD3ζ

2

Schirrmann (Cancer Gene Ther 2002)

YTS

   

x

 

CEA

x

  

CD3ζ

3

Daldrup-Link (Eur Radiol 2005)

NK-92

x

x

   

HER2

x

  

CD3ζ

4

Schirrmann (Leukemia Research 2005)

YT

   

x

 

CD33

x

  

CD3ζ

5

Meier (Nucl Med Biol 2008)

NK-92

x

    

HER2

x

  

CD3ζ

6

Muller (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2008)

NK-92

x

    

CD20

x

  

murine CD3ζ

7

Tavri (Mol Imaging 2009)

NK-92

x

    

EpCAM

x

  

CD3ζ

8

Boissel (Leukemia Res 2009)

NK-92

  

x

x

 

CD19

x

  

CD3ζ

9

Meier (Magn Reson Med 2011)

NK-92

x

    

EpCAM

x

  

CD3ζ

10

Sahm (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2012)

NK-92, NKL

 

2

   

EpCAM

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

11

Boissel (Leukemia Lymphoma 2012)

NK-92

 

x

x

  

CD19, CD20

x

  

CD3ζ

12

Esser (J Cell Mol Med 2012)

NK-92

x

    

GD2

x

  

CD3ζ

13

Tassev (Cancer Gene Ther 2012)

NK-92-MI

x

    

EBNA

x

  

CD3ζ

14

Alkins (Cancer Res 2013)

NK-92

x

    

HER2

x

  

CD3ζ

15

Boissel (OncoImmunol 2014)

NK-92

 

x

   

CD19, CD20

x

  

CD3ζ

16

Jiang (Mol Oncol 2014)

NK-92-MI

 

3

   

CD138

x

  

CD3ζ

17

Chu (Leukemia 2014)

NK-92

 

2

   

CS1

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

18

Seidel (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2015)

NK-92

x

    

GD2

x

  

CD3ζ

19

Schönfeld (Mol Ther 2015)

NK-92

 

2

   

HER2

x

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/CD3ζ

20

Han (Sci Reports 2015)

NK-92, NKL

 

2

   

EGFR

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

21

Clémenceau (J Immunol Res 2015)

NK-92

x

    

Her2

x

  

FceRIγ

22

Liu (Oncol Reports 2015)

NK-92

   

x

 

HER2

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

23

Zhao (Leukemia 2015)

NK-92-MI

x

    

WT-1

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

24

Muller (J Immunother 2015)

YTS

 

2

   

EGFRvIII

x

  

DAP12

25

Alkins (Neuro-Oncol 2016)

NK-92

x

    

HER2

x

  

CD3ζ

26

Genßler et al. (OncoImmunol 2016)

NK-92

 

2

   

EGFRvIII

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

27

Zhang (J Natl Cancer Inst 2016)

NK-92

 

2

   

HER2

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

28

Romanski (J Cell Mol Med 2016)

NK-92

x

    

CD19

x

  

CD3ζ

29

Topfer (J Immunother 2016)

YTS

 

2

   

EGFRvIII

x

  

DAP12

30

Chen (Oncotarget 2016)

NK-92, PB-NK

 

2

   

EGFR

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

31

Siegler (Mol Ther 2017)

NK-92

x

x

   

CD19, HER2

 

x

x

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ/CD28-CD3ζ

32

Oelsner (Cytotherapy 2017)

NK-92

 

2

   

CD19

x

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/CD3ζ

33

Chen (Oncotarget 2017)

NK-92

 

2

   

CD3

  

x

CD137-CD28-CD3ζ

34

Chen (Leukemia 2017)

NK-92

 

2

   

CD5

  

x

CD137-CD28-CD3ζ

35

Li (Cell Stem Cell 2018)

NK-92, iPSC

    

x

mesothelin

x

x

x

2B4-CD3ζ/CD28-CD137-CD3ζ/DAP10-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/2B4-DAP12-CD3ζ/2B4-DAP10-CD3ζ/CD137-2B4-CD3ζ/CD3ζ

36

Zhao (Eur J Inflamm 2018)

NK-92-MI

 

x

   

CD19, CD138

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

37

Murakami (Anticancer Res 2018)

KHYG-1

 

x

   

EGFRvIII

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

38

Zhang (J Immunol Res 2018)

NK-92

 

2

   

EpCAM

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

39

Yu (Mol Therapy 2018)

NK-92

 

x

   

GPC3

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

40

Nowakowska (Cancer Immunol Immunother 2018)

NK-92

 

2

   

HER2

x

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ/CD3ζ

41

Tang (Am J Cancer Res 2018)

NK-92-MI

 

3

   

CD33

x

x

 

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

42

Schnalzger (EMBO J 2019)

NK-92

 

2

   

HER2

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

43

Ao (J Immunother 2019)

NK-92

 

x

   

AlphaFR

x

x

x

CD3ζ/CD28-CD3ζ/CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

44

Kloess (Human Gene Therapy 2019)

NK-92, PB

x

    

CD123

  

x

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

45

Kim (Biomaterials 2019)

NK-92-MI

   

x

 

EGFR

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

46

Xu (J Hematol Oncol 2019)

NK-92

 

3

   

CD5

 

x

 

2B4-CD3ζ/CD137-CD3ζ

47

Batchu (Surgery 2019)

NK-92-MI

   

x

x

mesothelin

  

x

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

48

Kulemzin (BMC Med Genom 2019)

NK-92, YT

 

2

   

PMSA

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

49

You (Am J Cancer Res. 2019)

NK-92-MI

    

x

CD7

  

x

CD28-4-1BB-CD3ζ

50

Oelsner (Int J Cancer 2019)

NK-92

 

2

   

FLT3

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

51

Parlar (Eur J Immunol 2019)

NK-92, YTS

 

x

   

CD3 δγεδ, TCR

x

  

CD3ζ

52

Mensali (EBioMed 2019)

NK-92

x

    

CD3 δγεδ, TCR

x

  

CD3ζ

53

Ravi (Leukemia 2020)

NK-92

 

x

   

CD19

x

  

CD3ζ

54

Hu (Sci Report 2020)

NK-92-MI

 

x

   

Tissue factor

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

55

Huang (Cancer Manag Res 2020)

NK-92

 

x

   

GPC3

x

x

x

CD3ζ/CD28-CD3ζ/2B4-CD3ζ/DNAM1-CD3ζ/DNAM1-2B4-CD3ζ

56

Mitwasi (Sci Report 2020)

NK-92-MI

 

x

   

GD2

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

57

Hambach (Cells 2020)

NK-92

x

    

CD38

  

x

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

58

Cao (Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2020)

NK-92

 

2

   

Mesothelin, CD19

  

x

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

59

Li (J Cancer Res Ther 2020)

NK-92

 

x

   

Robo1

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

60

Montagner (Cells 2020)

NK-92

 

x

   

PMSA

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

61

Nakazawa (Anticancer Res 2020)

KHYG-1

 

x

   

EGFRvIII

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

62

Robbins (eLife 2020)

NK-92

–

–

–

–

–

PDL1

x

  

FcεR1γ

63

Lee (J Control Release 2020)

NK-92

 

x

   

Fra, TRAIL

 

x

 

CD27-CD3ζ

64

Liu (Cytotherapy 2020)

NK-92 MI

 

3

   

CD19

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

65

Yang (Front Pharmacol 2020)

NK-92 MI

 

2

   

B7H3

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

66

Jamali (Front immunol 2020)

NK-92, NKL, PB

 

3

   

CD19

 

x

 

CD137-CD3ζ

67

Ahn (Biomaterials 2020)

NK-92

–

–

–

–

–

EGFR

  

x

CD28-DAP10-CD3ζ

68

Fabian (J Immunother Cancer 2020)

haNK-92

–

–

–

–

–

PD-L1

–

–

–

–

69

Gurney (Haematologica 2020)

KHYG-1, PB-NK

x

    

CD38

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

70

Tseng (Nat Commun 2020)

NK-92MI, PB-NK

x

2

   

CD147, GPC3

  

x

CD28-CD137-CD3ζ

71

Eitler (Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer 2021)

NK-92

 

2

   

HER2

 

x

 

CD28-CD3ζ

72

Kang (Int J Mol Sci 2021)

NK-92MI, KHYG-1

 

3

   

CD19

   

CD28-CD3ζ

  1. Numbers in the "Vehicle" column refer to the generation of retro- and lentiviruses. – denotes information not provided in the study. Other abbreviations: gen. = CAR generation. Lenti lentivirus, Retro retrovirus, Transp transposon
  2. There is an interactive and extended version of this table available online, also providing regular updates: http://www.carnkreview.com