Generation of glucocorticoid resistant SARS-CoV-2 T-cells for adoptive cell therapy

SUMMARY Adoptive cell therapy with viral-specific T cells has been successfully used to treat life-threatening viral infections, supporting the application of this approach against COVID-19. We expanded SARS-CoV-2 T-cells from the peripheral blood of COVID-19-recovered donors and non-exposed controls using different culture conditions. We observed that the choice of cytokines modulates the expansion, phenotype and hierarchy of antigenic recognition by SARS-CoV-2 T-cells. Culture with IL-2/4/7 but not other cytokine-driven conditions resulted in >1000 fold expansion in SARS-CoV-2 T-cells with a retained phenotype, function and hierarchy of antigenic recognition when compared to baseline (pre-expansion) samples. Expanded CTLs were directed against structural SARS-CoV-2 proteins, including the receptor-binding domain of Spike. SARS-CoV-2 T-cells could not be efficiently expanded from the peripheral blood of non-exposed controls. Since corticosteroids are used for the management of severe COVID-19, we developed an efficient strategy to inactivate the glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) in SARS-CoV-2 CTLs using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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bioRxiv.org - (2021) vom: 15. Dez. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Basar, Rafet [VerfasserIn]
Uprety, Nadima [VerfasserIn]
Ensley, Emily [VerfasserIn]
Daher, May [VerfasserIn]
Klein, Kimberly [VerfasserIn]
Martinez, Fernando [VerfasserIn]
Aung, Fleur [VerfasserIn]
Shanley, Mayra [VerfasserIn]
Hu, Bingqian [VerfasserIn]
Gokdemir, Elif [VerfasserIn]
Mendt, Mayela [VerfasserIn]
Silva, Francia Reyes [VerfasserIn]
Acharya, Sunil [VerfasserIn]
Laskowski, Tamara [VerfasserIn]
Muniz-Feliciano, Luis [VerfasserIn]
Banerjee, Pinaki [VerfasserIn]
Li, Ye [VerfasserIn]
Li, Sufang [VerfasserIn]
Garcia, Luciana Melo [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Shaim, Hila [VerfasserIn]
Yates, Sean G. [VerfasserIn]
Marin, David [VerfasserIn]
Kaur, Indreshpal [VerfasserIn]
Rao, Sheetal [VerfasserIn]
Mak, Duncan [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Angelique [VerfasserIn]
Miao, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Dou, Jinzhuang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Ken [VerfasserIn]
Champlin, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Shpall, Elizabeth J. [VerfasserIn]
Rezvani, Katayoun [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.1101/2020.09.15.298547

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XBI018797881