Persistent anti-NY-ESO-1-specific T cells and expression of differential biomarkers in a patient with metastatic gastric cancer benefiting from combined radioimmunotherapy treatment : a case report

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Combined radioimmunotherapy is currently being investigated to treat patients with cancer. Anti-programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) immunotherapy offers the prospect of long-term disease control in solid tumors. Radiotherapy has the ability to promote immunogenic cell death leading to the release of tumor antigens, increasing infiltration and activation of T cells. New York esophageal squamous cell carcinoma-1 (NY-ESO-1) is a cancer-testis antigen expressed in 20% of advanced gastric cancers and known to induce humoral and cellular immune responses in patients with cancer. We report on the dynamic immune response to the NY-ESO-1 antigen and important immune-related biomarkers in a patient with metastatic gastric cancer treated with radiotherapy combined with anti-PD-1 pembrolizumab antibody.Our patient was an 81-year-old man diagnosed with locally advanced unresectable mismatch repair-deficient gastric cancer having progressed to a metastatic state under a second line of systemic treatment consisting of an anti-PD-1 pembrolizumab antibody. The patient was subsequently treated with local radiotherapy administered concomitantly with anti-PD-1, with a complete response on follow-up radiologic assessment. Disease control was sustained with no further therapy for a period of 12 months before relapse. We have identified an NY-ESO-1-specific interferon-γ (IFN-γ) secretion from the patients' T cells that was significantly increased at response (****p˂0.0001). A novel promiscuous immunogenic NY-ESO-1 peptide P39 (P153-167) restricted to the four patient's HLA-DQ and HLA-DP alleles was identified. Interestingly, this peptide contained the known NY-ESO-1-derived HLA-A2-02:01(P157-165) immunogenic epitope. We have also identified a CD107+ cytotoxic T cell subset within a specific CD8+/HLA-A2-NY-ESO-1 T cell population that was low at disease progression, markedly increased at disease resolution and significantly decreased again at disease re-progression. Finally, we identified two groups of cytokines/chemokines. Group 1 contains five cytokines (IFN-γ, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-2 (IL-2), IL-5 and IL-6) that were present at disease progression, significantly downregulated at disease resolution and dramatically upregulated again at disease re-progression. Group 2 contains four biomarkers (perforin, soluble FAS, macrophage inflammatory protein-3α and C-X-C motif chemokine 11/Interferon-inducible T Cell Alpha Chemoattractant that were present at disease progression, significantly upregulated at disease resolution and dramatically downregulated again at disease re-progression. Combined radioimmunotherapy can enhance specific T cell responses to the NY-ESO-1 antigen that correlates with beneficial clinical outcome of the patient.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Journal for immunotherapy of cancer - 8(2020), 2 vom: 15. Sept.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Merhi, Maysaloun [VerfasserIn]
Raza, Afsheen [VerfasserIn]
Inchakalody, Varghese Philipose [VerfasserIn]
Siveen, Kodappully S [VerfasserIn]
Kumar, Deepak [VerfasserIn]
Sahir, Fairooz [VerfasserIn]
Mestiri, Sarra [VerfasserIn]
Hydrose, Shereena [VerfasserIn]
Allahverdi, Niloofar [VerfasserIn]
Jalis, Munir [VerfasserIn]
Relecom, Allan [VerfasserIn]
Al Zaidan, Lobna [VerfasserIn]
Hamid, Mohamed Sir Elkhatim [VerfasserIn]
Mostafa, Mai [VerfasserIn]
Gul, Abdul Rehman Zar [VerfasserIn]
Uddin, Shahab [VerfasserIn]
Al Homsi, Mohammed [VerfasserIn]
Dermime, Said [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigens
Biomarkers
Biomarkers, Tumor
CD4-CD8 ratio
Case Reports
Case reports
Combined modality therapy
Journal Article
Neoplasm
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Tumor

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Date Completed 14.10.2021

Date Revised 14.10.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/jitc-2020-001278

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314852271