Human NK-92 Cells Function as Target Cells for Human NK Cells – Implications for CAR NK-92 Therapies

Natural Killer Cells for Immunotherapy – Advantages of the NK-92 Cell Line over Blood NK Cells

Natural killer (NK) cells are potent cytotoxic effector cells for cancer therapy and potentially for severe viral infections. However, there are technical challenges to obtain sufficient numbers of functionally active NK cells from a patient's blood since they represent only 10% of the lymphocytes and are often dysfunctional. The alternative is to obtain cells from a healthy donor, which requir...

P33. NK-92 cellular immunotherapy as an alternative to donor derived peripheral blood NK cells

Methods Collecting NK cells form donors requires them to undergo leukapheresis with subsequent removal of CD3+ lymphocytes (to prevent GvHD) and expansion and activation of the NK cell enriched fraction with IL-2. In contrast, the continuously growing NK cell line NK-92 can be easily expanded to clinical scale in bioreactors. The broad cytotoxicity of NK-92 is due to the lack of most of the KIR...

CD19‐CAR engineered NK‐92 cells are sufficient to overcome NK cell resistance in B‐cell malignancies

Many B-cell acute and chronic leukaemias tend to be resistant to killing by natural killer (NK) cells. The introduction of chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) into T cells or NK cells could potentially overcome this resistance. Here, we extend our previous observations on the resistance of malignant lymphoblasts to NK-92 cells, a continuously growing NK cell line, showing that anti-CD19-CAR (αCD19...

Human NK Cells Inhibit Cytomegalovirus

Synergistic Effects of Cabozantinib and EGFR-Specific CAR-NK-92 Cells in Renal Cell Carcinoma

The chimeric antigen receptor-modified immune effector cell (CAR-T and CAR-NK) therapies are newly developed adoptive treatments of cancers. However, their therapeutic efficacy against solid tumors is limited. Combining CAR-T or CAR-NK cells with chemotherapeutic drugs to treat solid tumor may be a promising strategy. We developed an epidermal growth factor- (EGFR-) specific third-generation CA...