bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/516369; this version posted June 5, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC 4.0 International license. 1 Molecular design, optimization and genomic integration of chimeric B cell 2 receptors in murine B cells 3 4 Theresa Pesch1, Lucia Bonati1, William Kelton1, Cristina Parola1,2, Roy A Ehling1, Lucia 5 Csepregi1, Daisuke Kitamura3, Sai T ReDDy1,* 6 7 1 Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Basel 4058, Switzerland 8 2 Life Science Graduate School, Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, 9 Switzerland 10 3 Research Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Japan 11 *To whom corresponDence shoulD be aDDresseD. Tel: +41 61 387 33 68; Email:
[email protected] 12 Key worDs: B cells, synthetic antigen receptor, cellular engineering, genome eDiting, cellular 13 immunotherapy, CRISPR-Cas9 14 15 Abstract 16 Immune cell therapies baseD on the integration of synthetic antigen receptors proviDe 17 a powerful strategy for the treatment of Diverse Diseases, most notably retargeting 18 T cells engineereD to express chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) for cancer therapy. In 19 aDDition to T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes may also represent valuable immune cells 20 that can be engineereD for therapeutic purposes such as protein replacement therapy 21 or recombinant antiboDy proDuction. In this article, we report a promising concept for 22 the molecular Design, optimization anD genomic integration of a novel class of 23 synthetic antigen receptors, chimeric B cell receptors (CBCR).