Publications
Links to all papers from the lab are organized by year of publication.
SynNotch CAR circuits enhance solid tumor recognition and promote persistent antitumor activity in mouse models. Sci Transl Med. 2021 04 28; 13(591). Hyrenius-Wittsten A, Su Y, Park M, Garcia JM, Alavi J, Perry N, Montgomery G, Liu B, Roybal KT. PMID: 33910981; PMCID: PMC8594452.
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SynNotch-CAR T cells overcome challenges of specificity, heterogeneity, and persistence in treating glioblastoma. Sci Transl Med. 2021 04 28; 13(591). Choe JH, Watchmaker PB, Simic MS, Gilbert RD, Li AW, Krasnow NA, Downey KM, Yu W, Carrera DA, Celli A, Cho J, Briones JD, Duecker JM, Goretsky YE, Dannenfelser R, Cardarelli L, Troyanskaya O, Sidhu SS, Roybal KT (co-corresponding author), Okada H, Lim WA. PMID: 33910979; PMCID: PMC8362330
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DNA scaffolds enable efficient and tunable functionalization of biomaterials for immune cell modulation. Nat Nanotechnol. 2020 Dec 14. Huang X, Williams JZ, Chang R, Li Z, Burnett CE, Hernandez-Lopez R, Setiady I, Gai E, Patterson DM, Yu W, Roybal KT, Lim WA, Desai TA. PMID: 33318641.
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Precise T cell recognition programs designed by transcriptionally linking multiple receptors. Science. 2020 Nov 27; 370(6520):1099-1104. Williams JZ, Allen GM, Shah D, Sterin IS, Kim KH, Garcia VP, Shavey GE, Yu W, Puig-Saus C, Tsoi J, Ribas A, Roybal KT, Lim WA. PMID: 33243890.
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CRISPR-based screens uncover determinants of immunotherapy response in multiple myeloma. Blood Adv. 2020 Jul 14; 4(13):2899-2911. Ramkumar P, Abarientos AB, Tian R, Seyler M, Leong JT, Chen M, Choudhry P, Hechler T, Shah N, Wong SW, Martin TG, Wolf JL, Roybal KT, Pahl A, Taunton J, Wiita AP, Kampmann M. PMID: 32589729.
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convertibleCARs: A chimeric antigen receptor system for flexible control of activity and antigen targeting. Commun Biol. 2020 Jun 09; 3(1):296. Landgraf KE, Williams SR, Steiger D, Gebhart D, Lok S, Martin DW, Roybal KT, Kim KC. PMID: 32518350.
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Pooled Knockin Targeting for Genome Engineering of Cellular Immunotherapies. Cell. 2020 04 30; 181(3):728-744.e21. Roth TL, Li PJ, Blaeschke F, Nies JF, Apathy R, Mowery C, Yu R, Nguyen MLT, Lee Y, Truong A, Hiatt J, Wu D, Nguyen DN, Goodman D, Bluestone JA, Ye CJ, Roybal K, Shifrut E, Marson A. PMID: 32302591.
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Paving New Roads for CARs. Trends Cancer. 2019 10; 5(10):583-592. Hyrenius-Wittsten A, Roybal KT. PMID: 31706506.
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NextGen cell-based immunotherapies in cancer and other immune disorders. Curr Opin Immunol. 2019 08; 59:79-87. Azimi CS, Tang Q, Roybal KT, Bluestone JA. PMID: 31071513.
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Clonal Deletion of Tumor-Specific T Cells by Interferon-y Confers Therapeutic Resistance to Combination Immune Checkpoint Blockade. Immunity. 2019 02 19; 50(2):477-492.e8. Pai CS, Huang JT, Lu X, Simons DM, Park C, Chang A, Tamaki W, Liu E, Roybal KT, Seagal J, Chen M, Hagihara K, Wei XX, DuPage M, Kwek SS, Oh DY, Daud A, Tsai KK, Wu C, Zhang L, Fasso M, Sachidanandam R, Jayaprakash A, Lin I, Casbon AJ, Kinsbury GA, Fong L. PMID: 30737146.
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Beyond the TCR, Antigen Discrimination in T Cells Continues in the LAT:GRB2:SOS Protein Condensate. Biophysical Journal. 2019 Feb 1; 116(3):530a. Shalini T. Low-Nam, Jenny JY Lin, Darren B. McAffee, Steven A. Alvarez, Scott D. Hansen, Kole T. Roybal, Jay T. Groves.
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Identifying Factors in Multiple Myeloma Controlling Response to B-Cell Maturation Antigen (BCMA)-Targeted Immunotherapy Using CRISPR-Based Functional Genomics. Blood. 2018 Nov 29; 132(Supplement 1):1926-1926. Poornima Ramkumar, Jaime Leong, Meghan Seyler, Stratton J Georgoulis, Axel Hyrenius Wittsten, Priya Choudhry, Kole Roybal, Arun P Wiita, Martin Kampmann.
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Refining cell therapy. Science. 2018 Mar 09; 359(6380):1112-1113. Roybal KT. PMID: 29590036.
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Synthetic Immunology: Hacking Immune Cells to Expand Their Therapeutic Capabilities. Annu Rev Immunol. 2017 04 26; 35:229-253. PMID: 28446063.
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated PD-1 disruption enhances anti-tumor efficacy of human chimeric antigen receptor T cells. Sci Rep. 2017 04 07; 7(1):737. PMID: 28389661.
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Engineering T Cells with Customized Therapeutic Response Programs Using Synthetic Notch Receptors. Cell. 2016 Oct 06; 167(2):419-432.e16. Roybal KT, Williams JZ, Morsut L, Rupp LJ, Kolinko I, Choe JH, Walker WJ, McNally KA, Lim WA. PMID: 27693353; PMCID: PMC5072533.
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Computational spatiotemporal analysis identifies WAVE2 and cofilin as joint regulators of costimulation-mediated T cell actin dynamics. Sci Signal. 2016 Apr 19; 9(424):rs3. Roybal KT, Buck TE, Ruan X, Cho BH, Clark DJ, Ambler R, Tunbridge HM, Zhang J, Verkade P, Wülfing C, Murphy RF. PMID: 27095595; PMCID: PMC4871116..
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Engineering Customized Cell Sensing and Response Behaviors Using Synthetic Notch Receptors. Cell. 2016 Feb 11; 164(4):780-91. Morsut L, Roybal KT, Xiong X, Gordley RM, Coyle SM, Thomson M, Lim WA. PMID: 26830878; PMCID: PMC4752866.
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Precision Tumor Recognition by T Cells With Combinatorial Antigen-Sensing Circuits. Cell. 2016 Feb 11; 164(4):770-9. Roybal KT, Rupp LJ, Morsut L, Walker WJ, McNally KA, Park JS, Lim WA. PMID: 26830879; PMCID: PMC4752902.
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Cellular Structures Controlling T Cell Signaling in Time and Space. Encyclopedia of Cell Biology. 2016 Jan 1; 677-686. Wülfing WC, Roybal KT.
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Remote control of therapeutic T cells through a small molecule-gated chimeric receptor. Science. 2015 Oct 16; 350(6258):aab4077. Wu CY, Roybal KT, Puchner EM, Onuffer J, Lim WA. PMID: 26405231; PMCID: PMC4721629.
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Modest Interference with Actin Dynamics in Primary T Cell Activation by Antigen Presenting Cells Preferentially Affects Lamellal Signaling. PLoS One. 2015; 10(8):e0133231. Roybal KT, Mace EM, Clark DJ, Leard AD, Herman A, Verkade P, Orange JS, Wülfing C. PMID: 26237588; PMCID: PMC4523178.
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Early Signaling in Primary T Cells Activated by Antigen Presenting Cells Is Associated with a Deep and Transient Lamellal Actin Network. PLoS One. 2015; 10(8):e0133299. Roybal KT, Mace EM, Mantell JM, Verkade P, Orange JS, Wülfing C. PMID: 26237050; PMCID: PMC4523204.
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Synthetic biology approaches to engineer T cells. Curr Opin Immunol. 2015 Aug; 35:123-30. Wu CY, Rupp LJ, Roybal KT, Lim WA. PMID: 26218616; PMCID: PMC4553068.
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Cellular structures controlling T cell signaling in time and space. Encyclopedia of Cell Biology. 2015; 677-686. Wülfing C, Roybal KT.
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IFN-α suppresses GATA3 transcription from a distal exon and promotes H3K27 trimethylation of the CNS-1 enhancer in human Th2 cells. J Immunol. 2014 Jun 15; 192(12):5687-94. Huber JP, Gonzales-van Horn SR, Roybal KT, Gill MA, Farrar JD. PMID: 24813204; PMCID: PMC4104489.
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Enhancement of anti-tumor CD8 immunity by IgG1-mediated targeting of Fc receptors. MAbs. 2014 Jan-Feb; 6(1):108-18. Furlan SN, Mandraju R, Brewer T, Roybal K, Troutman TD, Hu W, Palm NW, Unni A, Pasare C. PMID: 24284965;PMCID: PMC3929435.
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The actin-driven spatiotemporal organization of T-cell signaling at the system scale. Immunol Rev. 2013 Nov; 256(1):133-47. Roybal KT, Sinai P, Verkade P, Murphy RF, Wülfing C. PMID: 24117818.
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Differential regulation of the period genes in striatal regions following cocaine exposure. PLoS One. 2013; 8(6):e66438. Falcon E, Ozburn A, Mukherjee S, Roybal K, McClung CA. PMID: 23776671; PMCID: PMC3679086.
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New TACTICS for finding Numb. Immunol Cell Biol. 2013 Jan; 91(1):1-2. Roybal KT, Wülfing C. PMID: 23183270.
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Mycobacterial shuttle vectors designed for high-level protein expression in infected macrophages. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2012 Oct; 78(19):6829-37. Eitson JL, Medeiros JJ, Hoover AR, Srivastava S, Roybal KT, Aínsa JA, Hansen EJ, Gumbo T, van Oers NS. PMID: 22820329; PMCID: PMC3457510.
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The CD3 zeta subunit contains a phosphoinositide-binding motif that is required for the stable accumulation of TCR-CD3 complex at the immunological synapse. J Immunol. 2011 Jun 15; 186(12):6839-47. DeFord-Watts LM, Dougall DS, Belkaya S, Johnson BA, Eitson JL, Roybal KT, Barylko B, Albanesi JP, Wülfing C, van Oers NS. PMID: 21543646; PMCID: PMC3110614.
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Tentative and transient natural killer cell polarization balances the requirements for discriminatory recognition and cytolytic efficacy. Commun Integr Biol. 2010 Nov; 3(6):545-8. Sinai P, Roybal KT, Wülfing C. PMID: 21331235.
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Inhibiting the inhibitor of the inhibitor: blocking PKC-theta to enhance regulatory T cell function. Sci Signal. 2010 Jul 27; 3(132):pe24. Roybal KT, Wülfing C. PMID: 20664063.
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Spatiotemporal patterning during T cell activation is highly diverse. Sci Signal. 2009 Apr 07; 2(65):ra15. Singleton KL, Roybal KT, Sun Y, Fu G, Gascoigne NR, van Oers NS, Wülfing C. PMID: 19351954.
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Spatiotemporal patterning of T cell signaling as an important regulator of T cell activation at the systems level. The FASEB Journal. 2008 Mar 1; 22:1064.16-1064.16. Christoph Wuelfing, Kentner L. Singleton, Kole T. Roybal, Yi Sun. .
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Mania-like behavior induced by disruption of CLOCK. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2007 Apr 10; 104(15):6406-11. Roybal K, Theobold D, Graham A, DiNieri JA, Russo SJ, Krishnan V, Chakravarty S, Peevey J, Oehrlein N, Birnbaum S, Vitaterna MH, Orsulak P, Takahashi JS, Nestler EJ, Carlezon WA, McClung CA. PMID: 17379666.
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