TCXpress™ – Rapid Delivery of clinically relevant TCRs to patients.

BlueSphere’s proprietary TCR discovery platform is a robust, high-throughput TCR identification and screening platform to enable efficient TCR discovery with a competitive timeline.

TCXpress™

TCXpress™ is a proprietary high-throughput and efficient TCR capture, expression, and functional screening platform capable of processing thousands of single T cells directly into functionally expressed TCRs within a matter of days, thereby creating extensive libraries without the need for lengthy predictive sequencing.

TCXpress™ Platform

Why is TCXpress™ a unique TCR discovery engine?

TCXpress™ is built upon two design innovations:

  1. TCRα and TCRβ chains are isolated intact and together, enabling rapid and accurate functional screening
  2. Intact TCRs are sequenced analytically as needed, as the process does not require sequencing or gene synthesis, greatly saving on up-front costs and time

This unique discover engine allows BlueSphere to:

unique discovery engine chart- Reduces Costs, reduces time, increases breadth and depth, enables broadest patient population, minimizes bias

NEOXpress™

In addition to TCXpress, our neoantigen discovery platform, NEOXpress, can work in concert with TCXpress to screen tumor-resident TCRs for reactivity to identified neoantigens.

In this bottom-up approach, together with T-cell reporter libraries created from TCXpress™, NEOXpress™ provides the opportunity to rapidly screen and test the function of thousands of TCRs to find those specific to key neoantigens in a multiplexed way.

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TCR/ Neoantigen Pairing

T cell libraries are screened against APC libraries pairing TCRs to neoantigens

Neoantigen Library Generation

NEOXpress™ is able to clone and generate libraries of antigen presenting cells (APCs) expressing hundreds of neoantigens.

Bioinformatics

iNEOXpress™ is a proprietary bioinformatics platform that identifies and predicts tumor neoantigens.

Tumor DNA & RNA Sequencing

Perform tumor DNA and RNA sequencing on the tumor sample, as well as DNA sequencing from patient blood samples.

Screen and Select

Confirmation that the cloned α/β chains pair successfully and bind the target peptide/MHC antigen. In a sequencing and manipulation free method, high-throughput assays are then used to identify the true TCR hits

TCR Repertoire Library

TCXpress™ creates a TCR repertoire library available for repeated interrogation

Cloning and Plasmid Expression

Using the TCXpress™ proprietary methods, clone 1,000s of unique TCRs and express them in eukaryotic cells

Single Cell Sorting and Amplification

Deposit individual T cells into single wells. Amplify individual α/β chains

Isolate TILs

Isolate tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes to begin the TCXpress™ platform process