CD16-158-Valine Chimeric Receptor T Cells Overcome the Resistance of KRAS-mutated Colorectal Carcinoma Cells to Cetuximab

ABSTRACT KRAS mutation hinders the therapeutic efficacy of epidermal-growth-factor-receptor (EGFR) mAb (cetuximab and panitumumab)-based immunotherapy of EGFR+ cancers. Although, cetuximab controls KRAS-mutated cancer cell growthin vitroutilizing a NK cell-mediated antibody-dependent-cellular-cytotoxicity-(ADCC) mechanism, KRAS-mutated colorectal carcinoma (CRC) cells can still escape NK cell immunosurveillance. To overcome this limitation, we used cetuximab and panitumumab to redirect Fcγ chimeric receptor (CR) T cells against KRAS-mutated HCT116 CRC cells. We compared 4 polymorphic Fcγ-CR constructs including CD16158F-CR, CD16158V-CR, CD32131H-CR, and CD32131R-CR which were transduced into T cells utilizing retroviral transduction. Percentages of transduced T cells expressing CD32131H-CR (83.5±9.5) and CD32131R–CR (77.7.±13.2) were significantly higher than those expressing with CD16158F-CR (30.3±10.2) and CD16158V-CR (51.7±13.7) (p<0.003). CD32131R-CR T cells specifically bound soluble cetuximab and panitumumab. However, only CD16158V-CR T cells released significantly higher levels of interferon gamma (IFNγ=1145.5 pg/ml ±16.5 pg/ml, p<0.001) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα=614 pg/ml ± 21 pg/ml, p<0.001) than non-transduced T cells when incubated with KRAS-mutated HCT116 cells opsonized with cetuximab. Only CD16158V-CR T cells combined with cetuximab controlled the growth of HCT116 cells subcutaneously engrafted in CB17-SCID mice. These results suggest that CD16158V-CR T cells combined with cetuximab represent useful reagents to develop an effective immunotherapy of EGFR+KRAS-mutated cancer..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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bioRxiv.org - (2020) vom: 04. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2020

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Arriga, Roberto [VerfasserIn]
Caratelli, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Lanzilli, Giulia [VerfasserIn]
Ottaviani, Alessio [VerfasserIn]
Cenciarelli, Carlo [VerfasserIn]
Sconocchia, Tommaso [VerfasserIn]
Spagnoli, Giulio Cesare [VerfasserIn]
Iezzi, Giandomenica [VerfasserIn]
Roselli, Mario [VerfasserIn]
Lauro, Davide [VerfasserIn]
Dotti, Gianpietro [VerfasserIn]
Ferrone, Soldano [VerfasserIn]
Sconocchia, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]

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10.1101/588525

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XBI000481858