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Record W4416449582 · doi:10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.545

Highly efficient engineering of human immune cells and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells using microfluidic transfection 2651

2025· article· en· W4416449582 on OpenAlexaff
Ulrike Lambertz, Éric Ouellet, Manreet Chehal, Gil Paik, Elinor Binson, Quan Nguyen, Tina Liao, Phillip Chau, Jessie Z. Yu, Colin A. Hammond, Marta A. Walasek, Allen Eaves, Sharon A. Louis, Andy I. Kokaji

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of Immunology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicCAR-T cell therapy research
Canadian institutionsStemcell Technologies
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTransfectionHaematopoiesisElectroporationStem cellNucleofectionProgenitor cellCytotoxic T cell

Abstract

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Abstract Description We developed a novel mechanoporation-based system that enables efficient intracellular cargo delivery with minimal cellular perturbations. Using this CellPore™ Transfection System, we optimized workflows to genetically engineer unactivated pan T cells, T cell subsets, NK cells, and hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). We achieved high knockout efficiency of surface MHC-I (74%) or TCRαβ (94%) by delivering CRISPR/Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNP) to unactivated T cells using our workflow. T cells transfected by CellPore™ remained unactivated, while electroporation caused T cell activation and secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Similarly, we optimized a workflow to deliver mRNA constructs and RNPs to freshly isolated NK cells. Transfection with RNPs resulted in significant knockout of TIGIT (85%) or NKp46 (87%) surface markers. Importantly, NK cells transfected with CellPore™ maintained their cytotoxic and expansion capacity. Using CellPore™ to deliver RNPs to CD34+ HSPCs, we achieved high knockout efficiencies of either MHC-I (92%) or CD45 (84%) with a shortened process timeline. The bulk HSPC and primitive hematopoietic stem cell populations were preserved, with minimal impact on their differentiation, expansion, and clonogenic potential. In summary, the CellPore™ Transfection System enables robust and efficient cargo delivery to mature immune cells and HSPCs without impacting cell function, in a simple workflow that can be easily integrated into research protocols. Funding Sources N/A Topic Categories Technological Innovations in Immunology (TECH)

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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