Reversible Re‐programing of Cell–Cell Interactions |
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| Authors: | Kari Gabrielse Amit Gangar Dr. Nigam Kumar Dr. Jae Chul Lee Dr. Adrian Fegan Jing Jing Shen Dr. Qing Li Dr. Daniel Vallera Dr. Carston R. Wagner |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 308 Harvard Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (USA);2. Department of Therapeutic Radiology, University of Minnesota (USA);3. Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota (USA) |
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| Abstract: | The ability to engineer and re‐program the surfaces of cells would provide an enabling synthetic biological method for the design of cell‐ and tissue‐based therapies. A new cell surface‐engineering strategy is described that uses lipid‐chemically self‐assembled nanorings (lipid‐CSANs) that can be used for the stable and reversible modification of any cell surface with a molecular reporter or targeting ligand. In the presence of a non‐toxic FDA‐approved drug, the nanorings were quickly disassembled and the cell–cell interactions reversed. Similar to T‐cells genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARS), when activated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were functionalized with the anti‐EpCAM‐lipid‐CSANs, they were shown to selectively kill antigen‐positive cancer cells. Taken together, these results demonstrate that lipid‐CSANs have the potential to be a rapid, stable, and general method for the reversible engineering of cell surfaces and cell–cell interactions. |
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| Keywords: | cell– cell interactions chimeric antigen receptors nanoparticles oligomerization self‐assembly |
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