Autolus Therapeutics Plc (AUTL)

[jondoeuk]

For its next generation T-cell product candidates, the company will incorporate multiple modular enhancements, but as the authors of this point out engineering multiple features into one cell product is limited by the constraints of current viral vectors, which leads to a heterogeneous population of cells.

Using a leucine zipper-based cell sorting enabled a selective single-step purification of cells co-transduced with two vectors, designed to potentially double the number of incorporated transgenes. This facilitated generation of T-cells simultaneously expressing up to four CARs (CD19, CD20, CD79b, and BAFF-R) and co-expressing up to three switch receptors (CD200R-CD27, PD-1-OX40, and Fas-41BB) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.13.557232v1