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Engineered T cells are transforming broad fields in biomedicine, yet our ability to control cellular activity at specific anatomical sites remains limited. Here we engineer thermal gene switches to allow spatial and remote control of transcriptional activity using pulses of heat. These gene switches are constructed from the heat shock protein HSP70B' (HSPA6) promoter, show negligible basal transcriptional activity, and activate within an elevated temperature window of 40-45 °C. Using engineered Jurkat T cells implanted in vivo, we use plasmonic photothermal heating to trigger gene expression at specific sites to levels greater than 200-fold. We show that delivery of heat as thermal pulse trains significantly increase cellular thermal tolerance compared to continuous heating curves with identical area-under-the-curve (AUC), enabling long-term control of gene expression in Jurkat T cells. This approach expands the toolkit of remotely controlled genetic devices for basic and translational applications in synthetic immunology.

Remote Control of Mammalian Cells with Heat-Triggered Gene Switches and Photothermal Pulse Trains