A non-antibiotic-disrupted gut microbiome is associated with clinical responses to CD19-CAR-T cell cancer immunotherapy

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Increasing evidence suggests that the gut microbiome may modulate the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy. In a B cell lymphoma patient cohort from five centers in Germany and the United States (Germany, n = 66; United States, n = 106; total, n = 172), we demonstrate that wide-spectrum antibiotics treatment ('high-risk antibiotics') prior to CD19-targeted chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is associated with adverse outcomes, but this effect is likely to be confounded by an increased pretreatment tumor burden and systemic inflammation in patients pretreated with high-risk antibiotics. To resolve this confounding effect and gain insights into antibiotics-masked microbiome signals impacting CAR-T efficacy, we focused on the high-risk antibiotics non-exposed patient population. Indeed, in these patients, significant correlations were noted between pre-CAR-T infusion Bifidobacterium longum and microbiome-encoded peptidoglycan biosynthesis, and CAR-T treatment-associated 6-month survival or lymphoma progression. Furthermore, predictive pre-CAR-T treatment microbiome-based machine learning algorithms trained on the high-risk antibiotics non-exposed German cohort and validated by the respective US cohort robustly segregated long-term responders from non-responders. Bacteroides, Ruminococcus, Eubacterium and Akkermansia were most important in determining CAR-T responsiveness, with Akkermansia also being associated with pre-infusion peripheral T cell levels in these patients. Collectively, we identify conserved microbiome features across clinical and geographical variations, which may enable cross-cohort microbiome-based predictions of outcomes in CAR-T cell immunotherapy.

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CommentIn: Nat Med. 2023 Apr;29(4):785-786. - PMID 36973411

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Nature medicine - 29(2023), 4 vom: 13. Apr., Seite 906-916

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Stein-Thoeringer, Christoph K [VerfasserIn]
Saini, Neeraj Y [VerfasserIn]
Zamir, Eli [VerfasserIn]
Blumenberg, Viktoria [VerfasserIn]
Schubert, Maria-Luisa [VerfasserIn]
Mor, Uria [VerfasserIn]
Fante, Matthias A [VerfasserIn]
Schmidt, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Hayase, Eiko [VerfasserIn]
Hayase, Tomo [VerfasserIn]
Rohrbach, Roman [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Chia-Chi [VerfasserIn]
McDaniel, Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Flores, Ivonne [VerfasserIn]
Gaiser, Rogier [VerfasserIn]
Edinger, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Wolff, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Heidenreich, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Strati, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Nair, Ranjit [VerfasserIn]
Chihara, Dai [VerfasserIn]
Fayad, Luis E [VerfasserIn]
Ahmed, Sairah [VerfasserIn]
Iyer, Swaminathan P [VerfasserIn]
Steiner, Raphael E [VerfasserIn]
Jain, Preetesh [VerfasserIn]
Nastoupil, Loretta J [VerfasserIn]
Westin, Jason [VerfasserIn]
Arora, Reetakshi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Michael L [VerfasserIn]
Turner, Joel [VerfasserIn]
Menges, Meghan [VerfasserIn]
Hidalgo-Vargas, Melanie [VerfasserIn]
Reid, Kayla [VerfasserIn]
Dreger, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Schmitt, Anita [VerfasserIn]
Müller-Tidow, Carsten [VerfasserIn]
Locke, Frederick L [VerfasserIn]
Davila, Marco L [VerfasserIn]
Champlin, Richard E [VerfasserIn]
Flowers, Christopher R [VerfasserIn]
Shpall, Elizabeth J [VerfasserIn]
Poeck, Hendrik [VerfasserIn]
Neelapu, Sattva S [VerfasserIn]
Schmitt, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Subklewe, Marion [VerfasserIn]
Jain, Michael D [VerfasserIn]
Jenq, Robert R [VerfasserIn]
Elinav, Eran [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antigens, CD19
Journal Article
Receptors, Chimeric Antigen
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.04.2023

Date Revised 21.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Nat Med. 2023 Apr;29(4):785-786. - PMID 36973411

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41591-023-02234-6

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM354204793