Clinical trial links oncolytic immunoactivation to survival in glioblastoma

© 2023. The Author(s)..

Immunotherapy failures can result from the highly suppressive tumour microenvironment that characterizes aggressive forms of cancer such as recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM)1,2. Here we report the results of a first-in-human phase I trial in 41 patients with rGBM who were injected with CAN-3110-an oncolytic herpes virus (oHSV)3. In contrast to other clinical oHSVs, CAN-3110 retains the viral neurovirulence ICP34.5 gene transcribed by a nestin promoter; nestin is overexpressed in GBM and other invasive tumours, but not in the adult brain or healthy differentiated tissue4. These modifications confer CAN-3110 with preferential tumour replication. No dose-limiting toxicities were encountered. Positive HSV1 serology was significantly associated with both improved survival and clearance of CAN-3110 from injected tumours. Survival after treatment, particularly in individuals seropositive for HSV1, was significantly associated with (1) changes in tumour/PBMC T cell counts and clonal diversity, (2) peripheral expansion/contraction of specific T cell clonotypes; and (3) tumour transcriptomic signatures of immune activation. These results provide human validation that intralesional oHSV treatment enhances anticancer immune responses even in immunosuppressive tumour microenvironments, particularly in individuals with cognate serology to the injected virus. This provides a biological rationale for use of this oncolytic modality in cancers that are otherwise unresponsive to immunotherapy (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03152318 ).

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Nat Rev Neurol. 2023 Dec;19(12):711. - PMID 37940647

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:623

Enthalten in:

Nature - 623(2023), 7985 vom: 18. Nov., Seite 157-166

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ling, Alexander L [VerfasserIn]
Solomon, Isaac H [VerfasserIn]
Landivar, Ana Montalvo [VerfasserIn]
Nakashima, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Woods, Jared K [VerfasserIn]
Santos, Andres [VerfasserIn]
Masud, Nafisa [VerfasserIn]
Fell, Geoffrey [VerfasserIn]
Mo, Xiaokui [VerfasserIn]
Yilmaz, Ayse S [VerfasserIn]
Grant, James [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Abigail [VerfasserIn]
Bernstock, Joshua D [VerfasserIn]
Torio, Erickson [VerfasserIn]
Ito, Hirotaka [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Junfeng [VerfasserIn]
Shono, Naoyuki [VerfasserIn]
Nowicki, Michal O [VerfasserIn]
Triggs, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Halloran, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Piranlioglu, Raziye [VerfasserIn]
Soni, Himanshu [VerfasserIn]
Stopa, Brittany [VerfasserIn]
Bi, Wenya Linda [VerfasserIn]
Peruzzi, Pierpaolo [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ethan [VerfasserIn]
Malinowski, Seth W [VerfasserIn]
Prabhu, Michael C [VerfasserIn]
Zeng, Yu [VerfasserIn]
Carlisle, Anne [VerfasserIn]
Rodig, Scott J [VerfasserIn]
Wen, Patrick Y [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Eudocia Quant [VerfasserIn]
Nayak, Lakshmi [VerfasserIn]
Chukwueke, Ugonma [VerfasserIn]
Gonzalez Castro, L Nicolas [VerfasserIn]
Dumont, Sydney D [VerfasserIn]
Batchelor, Tracy [VerfasserIn]
Kittelberger, Kara [VerfasserIn]
Tikhonova, Ekaterina [VerfasserIn]
Miheecheva, Natalia [VerfasserIn]
Tabakov, Dmitry [VerfasserIn]
Shin, Nara [VerfasserIn]
Gorbacheva, Alisa [VerfasserIn]
Shumskiy, Artemy [VerfasserIn]
Frenkel, Felix [VerfasserIn]
Aguilar-Cordova, Estuardo [VerfasserIn]
Aguilar, Laura K [VerfasserIn]
Krisky, David [VerfasserIn]
Wechuck, James [VerfasserIn]
Manzanera, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Matheny, Chris [VerfasserIn]
Tak, Paul P [VerfasserIn]
Barone, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Kovarsky, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Tirosh, Itay [VerfasserIn]
Suvà, Mario L [VerfasserIn]
Wucherpfennig, Kai W [VerfasserIn]
Ligon, Keith [VerfasserIn]
Reardon, David A [VerfasserIn]
Chiocca, E Antonio [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical Trial, Phase I
Gamma 34.5 protein, Human herpesvirus 1
Journal Article
Nestin

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 08.11.2023

Date Revised 05.12.2023

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03152318

CommentIn: Nat Rev Neurol. 2023 Dec;19(12):711. - PMID 37940647

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41586-023-06623-2

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36345618X