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Developing a multimodal therapy for glioblastoma using oncolytic virus delivering CD19 and EGFRvIII antigens and bi-specific CARs.

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Authors: Jia Li1, Shyambabu Chaurasiya2, Guihua Sun1, Qi Cui1, Peng Ye1, Yue Qin1, Tao Zhou1, Xiuli Wang3, Yuman Fong2, Marcela V Maus4,5, Yanhong Shi1
  1. Department of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, 1500 E. Duarte Rd., Duarte, CA USA
  2. Department of Surgery, City of Hope, 1500 E. Duarte Rd., Duarte, CA USA
  3. Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, 1500 E. Duarte Rd., Duarte, CA USA
  4. Cellular Immunotherapy Program Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  5. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
Institutions: City Of Hope National Medical Center (United States); City of Hope (United States); Beckman Research Institute; Harvard University (United States); Massachusetts General Hospital (United States)
Journal: Nature communications, volume 17, issue 1, article 4839
Dates: received 27 March 2025; accepted 10 March 2026; published online 9 April 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-71021-x · PMID 41957020 · PMCID PMC13222885 · OpenAlex W7152366795
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: human (organism), mouse (organism), other condition (population)
Methods: Statistics, Preprocessing
Keywords: Cancer immunotherapy, Induced pluripotent stem cells
MeSH: Antigens, CD19*, Brain Neoplasms*, ErbB Receptors*, Glioblastoma*, Immunotherapy, Adoptive*, Oncolytic Virotherapy*, Oncolytic Viruses*, Receptors, Chimeric Antigen*, Animals, Antigens, Neoplasm, Cell Line, Tumor, Combined Modality Therapy, Female, Humans, Immunotherapy, Interleukin-15, Interleukin-21, Interleukins, Killer Cells, Natural, Mice, Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays (* major topic)
Topic: CAR-T cell therapy research (Oncology, Medicine), according to OpenAlex
Funding: NIH HHS (P30CA33572)
Citations: cited by 4 papers (Europe PMC); 87 references in the paper

Abstract

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive primary brain tumor with no cure, largely because of tumor heterogeneity and immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is highly effective in blood cancers but exhibits limited efficacy in glioblastoma due to heterogeneous tumor antigen expression, antigen loss and poor persistence of tumor-targeting immune cells in glioblastoma. Here we show a multimodal immunotherapy strategy that integrates engineered immune cells with oncolytic viruses to overcome these barriers. We have developed bispecific CAR-T and CAR-NK cells in combination with oncolytic virus that delivers two tumor antigens to glioblastoma cells for effective CAR targeting. Moreover, oncolytic virus armed with membrane-bound interleukin-15 and interleukin-21 enhances immune cell expansion/persistence and cytotoxic activity. This combined approach improves anti-tumor efficacy in vitro and in vivo by limiting immune escape and enhancing anti-tumor immunity. Together, these findings establish a promising platform for multimodal immunotherapy targeting glioblastoma and other solid tumors.

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The RNA-seq dataset has been uploaded to GEO database with GEO# GSE310003 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE310003) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi). Source data for all figures and Supplementary Figs. are provided within the paper.

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Li, J., Chaurasiya, S., Sun, G., Cui, Q., Ye, P., Qin, Y., Zhou, T., Wang, X., Fong, Y., Maus, M. V., & Shi, Y. (2026). Developing a multimodal therapy for glioblastoma using oncolytic virus delivering CD19 and EGFRvIII antigens and bi-specific CARs. Nature communications, 17(1), 4839. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71021-x

BibTeX

@article{li2026developing,
author = {Li, Jia and Chaurasiya, Shyambabu and Sun, Guihua and Cui, Qi and Ye, Peng and Qin, Yue and Zhou, Tao and Wang, Xiuli and Fong, Yuman and Maus, Marcela V and Shi, Yanhong},
title = {{Developing a multimodal therapy for glioblastoma using oncolytic virus delivering CD19 and EGFRvIII antigens and bi-specific CARs}},
journal = {Nature communications},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
volume = {17},
number = {1},
pages = {4839},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
issn = {2041-1723},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-026-71021-x},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71021-x},
pmid = {41957020},
pmcid = {PMC13222885}
}

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AU - Chaurasiya, Shyambabu
AU - Sun, Guihua
AU - Cui, Qi
AU - Ye, Peng
AU - Qin, Yue
AU - Zhou, Tao
AU - Wang, Xiuli
AU - Fong, Yuman
AU - Maus, Marcela V
AU - Shi, Yanhong
TI - Developing a multimodal therapy for glioblastoma using oncolytic virus delivering CD19 and EGFRvIII antigens and bi-specific CARs
T2 - Nature communications
J2 - Nat Commun
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/04/09
VL - 17
IS - 1
SP - 4839
SN - 2041-1723
PB - Nature Publishing Group
DO - 10.1038/s41467-026-71021-x
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-71021-x
LA - en
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