Human IL-6 fosters long-term engraftment of patient derived disease-driving myeloma cells in immunodeficient mice

Multiple myeloma is a largely incurable and life-threatening malignancy of antibody-secreting plasma cells. An effective and widely available animal model that recapitulates human myeloma and related plasma cell disorders is lacking. We show that busulfan-conditioned hIL-6 transgenic NSG mice (NSG+hIL6) reliably support the engraftment of malignant and pre-malignant human plasma cells including from patients diagnosed with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, pre- and post-relapse myeloma, plasma cell leukemia, and AL amyloidosis. Consistent with human disease, NSG+hIL6 mice engrafted with patient-derived myeloma cells, developed serum M spikes, and a majority developed anemia, hypercalcemia, and/or bone lesions. Single cell RNA sequencing showed non-malignant and malignant cell engraftment, the latter expressing a wide array of mRNAs associated with myeloma cell survival and proliferation. Myeloma engrafted mice given CAR T-cells targeting plasma cells or bortezomib experienced reduced tumor burden. Our results establish NSG+hIL6 mice as an effective patient derived xenograft model for study and preclinical drug development of multiple myeloma and related plasma cell disorders.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology - (2024) vom: 24. Jan.

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Englisch

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Hasanali, Zainul S [VerfasserIn]
Garfall, Alfred L [VerfasserIn]
Burzenski, Lisa [VerfasserIn]
Shultz, Leonard D [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Yan [VerfasserIn]
Kadu, Siddhant [VerfasserIn]
Sheppard, Neil C [VerfasserIn]
Dopkin, Derek [VerfasserIn]
Vogl, Dan T [VerfasserIn]
Cohen, Adam D [VerfasserIn]
Waxman, Adam J [VerfasserIn]
Susanibar-Adaniya, Sandra P [VerfasserIn]
Carroll, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Stadtmauer, Edward A [VerfasserIn]
Allman, David [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 08.02.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1101/2024.01.21.576547

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NLM368173305