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drug_type
RELEVANT_DRUG
intervention_type
Cellular therapy (gene-modified CAR T cells)
drug_description
Allogeneic off-the-shelf CAR-γδ T-cell therapy engineered via lentiviral vector to express an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor; administered intravenously to target and kill CD19-positive B-cell malignancies.
nci_thesaurus_concept_id
C202226
nci_thesaurus_definition
A preparation of a subset of allogeneic T-lymphocytes that express only gamma chain and delta chain T-cell receptors (TCRs) and that are transduced with a lentiviral vector expressing a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting the tumor-associated antigen (TAA) CD19, with potential immunomodulating and antineoplastic activities. Upon administration, allogeneic anti-CD19 gamma-delta CAR-T cells UTAA09 specifically target and bind to tumor cells expressing CD19, thereby inducing selective toxicity in CD19-expressing tumor cells. Gamma delta T-lymphocytes play a key role in the activation of the immune system and do not require major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-mediated antigen presentation to exert their cytotoxic effect. CD19 antigen is a B-cell specific cell surface antigen overexpressed in B-cell lineage malignancies.
drug_mesh_term
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy
drug_category
CAR T
drug_class
Cellular Therapy
drug_delivery_route
Intravenous
drug_mechanism_of_action
Allogeneic, off-the-shelf gamma-delta T cells engineered via lentiviral vector to express an anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor. After IV infusion, the CAR binds CD19 on malignant B cells, triggering MHC-independent activation of gamma-delta T-cell cytotoxic mechanisms (e.g., perforin/granzyme release and cytokine-mediated killing) to selectively eliminate CD19-positive cells.
drug_name
UTAA09
nct_id_drug_ref
NCT06092047