Generation of donor-derived Wilms tumor antigen 1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes with potent anti-leukemia activity for somatic cell therapy in children given haploidentical stem cell transplantation : a feasibility pre-clinical study

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BACKGROUND: The Wilms tumor antigen 1 (WT1) is over-expressed in a vast majority of adult and childhood acute leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes, being lowly or transiently expressed in normal tissues and hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). A number of HLA-restricted WT1 epitopes are immunogenic, allowing the in vitro induction of WT1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) from patients and healthy donors.

AIM: The aim of the study was to investigate the feasibility of producing WT1-specific CTLs suitable for somatic cell therapy to prevent or treat relapse in children with acute myeloid or lymphoblastic leukemia given haploidentical HSC transplantation (haplo-HSCT).

METHODS: For WT1-specific CTL production, donor-derived either peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) or CD8+ lymphocytes were stimulated with WT1 peptide-loaded donor dendritic cells in the presence of interleukin (IL)-7 and IL-12. Effector cells were re-stimulated once with irradiated donor PBMCs pulsed with WT1-peptides, and then expanded in an antigen-independent way.

RESULTS: WT1-specific CTLs, displaying high-level cytotoxicity against patients' leukemia blasts and negligible activity against patients' non-malignant cells, were obtained from both PBMCs and CD8+ lymphocytes. WT1-specific CTLs obtained from PBMCs showed a better expansion capacity and better anti-leukemia activity than those obtained from CD8+ lymphocytes, even though the difference was not statistically significant. In CTLs derived from PBMCs, both CD8+ and CD4+ subpopulations displayed strong anti-leukemia cytotoxic activity.

DISCUSSION: Results of this pre-clinical study pave the way to a somatic cell therapy approach aimed at preventing or treating relapse in children given haplo-HSCT for WT1-positive leukemia.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:21

Enthalten in:

Cytotherapy - 21(2019), 9 vom: 26. Sept., Seite 958-972

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ferulli, Federica [VerfasserIn]
Tanzi, Matteo [VerfasserIn]
Turin, Ilaria [VerfasserIn]
Montini, Enrica [VerfasserIn]
Rosti, Vittorio [VerfasserIn]
Acquafredda, Gloria [VerfasserIn]
Lisini, Daniela [VerfasserIn]
Compagno, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Boghen, Stella [VerfasserIn]
Licari, Amelia [VerfasserIn]
Marseglia, Gianluigi [VerfasserIn]
Zecca, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Montagna, Daniela [VerfasserIn]

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82115-62-6
Acute leukemia
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Anti-tumor immunotherapy
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Interferon-gamma
Journal Article
Peptides
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Somatic cell therapy
WT1 Proteins
Wilms tumor antigen 1

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Date Completed 06.05.2020

Date Revised 06.05.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jcyt.2019.06.007

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NLM298931427