PMID- 30187578 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190211 LR - 20190215 IS - 1600-0609 (Electronic) IS - 0902-4441 (Linking) VI - 101 IP - 6 DP - 2018 Dec TI - NKT cells - New players in CAR cell immunotherapy? PG - 750-757 LID - 10.1111/ejh.13170 [doi] AB - Low levels of peripheral blood natural killer T (NKT) cells in cancer patients and a favorable outcome associated with a high number of tumor-infiltrating NKT cells demonstrated in several studies indicated the important role of these immune cells in the antitumor response. With effective antitumor immunity via direct tumor lysis, cytokine modulation of effector cells and regulation of immunosuppressive cells, type I NKT cells display interesting features/properties for the rapidly developing chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) technology. Due to their restriction to the monomorphic HLA-like molecule CD1d, but not to the polymorphic human leukocyte antigen (HLA), NKT CAR cells show potential for enabling autologous and allogeneic/off-the-shelf cancer immunotherapy. Promising results were obtained in preclinical NKT CAR cell studies, but clinical trials have not yet been conducted. In this review, we summarize the biological features of NKT cells, their role in antitumor immunity and recent advances in the development of NKT CAR cells. CI - (c) 2018 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Kriegsmann, Katharina AU - Kriegsmann K AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3620-1491 AD - Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. FAU - Kriegsmann, Mark AU - Kriegsmann M AD - Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. FAU - von Bergwelt-Baildon, Michael AU - von Bergwelt-Baildon M AD - Department of Internal Medicine III, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. FAU - Cremer, Martin AU - Cremer M AD - Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. FAU - Witzens-Harig, Mathias AU - Witzens-Harig M AD - Department of Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20181009 PL - England TA - Eur J Haematol JT - European journal of haematology JID - 8703985 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell) RN - 0 (Receptors, Chimeric Antigen) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Biomarkers MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Drug Evaluation, Preclinical MH - Humans MH - *Immunotherapy, Adoptive/methods MH - Natural Killer T-Cells/cytology/*immunology/*metabolism MH - Phenotype MH - Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/genetics/*metabolism MH - Receptors, Chimeric Antigen/genetics/*metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - Natural killer T (NKT) cells OT - antitumor immunity OT - chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) OT - immunotherapy EDAT- 2018/09/07 06:00 MHDA- 2019/02/12 06:00 CRDT- 2018/09/07 06:00 PHST- 2018/06/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/08/29 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/08/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/09/07 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/02/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/09/07 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/ejh.13170 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Haematol. 2018 Dec;101(6):750-757. doi: 10.1111/ejh.13170. Epub 2018 Oct 9.