Adoptive transfer of ex vivo expanded SARS-CoV-2-specific cytotoxic lymphocytes : A viable strategy for COVID-19 immunosuppressed patients?

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Cellular and humoral response to acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is on focus of research. We evaluate herein the feasibility of expanding virus-specific T cells (VST) against SARS-CoV-2 ex vivo through a standard protocol proven effective for other viruses. The experiment was performed in three different donors' scenarios: (a) SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic infection/negative serology, (b) SARS-CoV-2 symptomatic infection/positive serology, and (c) no history of SARS-CoV-2 infection/negative serology. We were able to obtain an expanded VST product from donors 1 and 2 (1.6x and 1.8x increase of baseline VST count, respectively) consisting in CD3 + cells (80.3% and 62.7%, respectively) with CD4 + dominance (60% in both donors). Higher numbers of VST were obtained from the donor 2 as compared to donor 1. T-cell clonality test showed oligoclonal reproducible peaks on a polyclonal background for both donors. In contrast, VST could be neither expanded nor primed in a donor without evidence of prior infection. This proof-of-concept study supports the feasibility of expanding ex vivo SARS-CoV-2-specific VST from blood of convalescent donors. The results raise the question of whether the selection of seropositive donors may be a strategy to obtain cell lines enriched in their SARS-CoV-2-specificity for future adoptive transfer to immunosuppressed patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society - 23(2021), 4 vom: 15. Aug., Seite e13602

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guerreiro, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Aguilar-Gallardo, Cristóbal [VerfasserIn]
Montoro, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Francés-Gómez, Clara [VerfasserIn]
Latorre, Víctor [VerfasserIn]
Luna, Irene [VerfasserIn]
Planelles, Dolores [VerfasserIn]
Carrasco, María Paz [VerfasserIn]
Gómez, María Dolores [VerfasserIn]
González-Barberá, Eva María [VerfasserIn]
Aguado, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Sempere, Amparo [VerfasserIn]
Solves, Pilar [VerfasserIn]
Gómez-Seguí, Inés [VerfasserIn]
Balaguer-Rosello, Aitana [VerfasserIn]
Louro, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Perla, Aurora [VerfasserIn]
Larrea, Luis [VerfasserIn]
Sanz, Jaime [VerfasserIn]
Arbona, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
de la Rubia, Javier [VerfasserIn]
Geller, Ron [VerfasserIn]
Sanz, Miguel Ángel [VerfasserIn]
Sanz, Guillermo [VerfasserIn]
Luis Piñana, José [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adoptive immunotherapy
COVID-19
Journal Article
Lymphocyte expansion
Respiratory virus
SARS-CoV-2
Third-party donors
Virus-specific T cells

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Date Completed 22.09.2021

Date Revised 31.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/tid.13602

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM32285329X