Induction of Effector and Memory Cellular Immunity in a Patient with Long-Term Complete Molecular Response to Philadelphia Chromosome-Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Copyright © 2020 by S. Karger AG, Basel..

This case report is about a patient who suffered from Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1)-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The blasts were positive for myeloid-lineage markers including CD13 and CD33, as well as B-cell-lineage markers. Minor bcr-abl1 mRNA was detected by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. Chromosomal abnormality monosomy 7 was also observed, in addition to Ph1. Despite treatment difficulties that were anticipated based on these findings, the patient had long-time complete molecular response (CMR) for approximately 5 years using chemotherapy and two tyrosine kinase inhibitors, imatinib and dasatinib. Lymphocytes were elevated after the patient switched from imatinib to dasatinib, and a T-cell receptor (TCR) V beta gene repertoire analysis revealed oligoclonal expansion of effector and memory cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), including Wilms tumor 1-specific CTLs. More specifically, the two memory CTLs expressing TCR V beta 3 and V beta 7.1 gradually increased after dasatinib administration. The activation and maintenance of anti-leukemia immunity may have allowed the patient to obtain long-time CMR. These results highlight that obtaining memory CTLs for leukemia cells may lead to safe withdrawal from dasatinib in the patient.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Case reports in oncology - 13(2020), 2 vom: 07. Mai, Seite 990-996

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jo, Tatsuro [VerfasserIn]
Shioya, Haruna [VerfasserIn]
Tominaga, Hiroo [VerfasserIn]
Sakai, Takahiro [VerfasserIn]
Hayashi, Shizuka [VerfasserIn]
Matsuzaka, Kaori [VerfasserIn]
Kaneko, Yohei [VerfasserIn]
Matsuo, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Taguchi, Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bcr-abl1
Case Reports
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte
Philadelphia chromosome
Wilms tumor 1

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Date Revised 02.10.2020

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1159/000508997

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315701595