Preclinical assessment of transiently TCR redirected T cells for solid tumour immunotherapy.

Autor: Mensali N; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway., Myhre MR; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway., Dillard P; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway., Pollmann S; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway., Gaudernack G; Department of Cancer Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway.; Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, 0316, Oslo, Norway., Kvalheim G; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway., Wälchli S; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway. sebastw@rr-research.no., Inderberg EM; Department of Cellular Therapy, Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0379, Oslo, Norway. elsmar@rr-research.no.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cancer immunology, immunotherapy : CII [Cancer Immunol Immunother] 2019 Aug; Vol. 68 (8), pp. 1235-1243. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jun 18.
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-019-02356-2
Abstrakt: Off-target toxicity due to the expression of target antigens in normal tissue or TCR cross-reactivity represents a major risk when using T cell receptor (TCR)-engineered T cells for treatment of solid tumours. Due to the inherent cross-reactivity of TCRs it is difficult to accurately predict their target recognition pre-clinically. It has become evident that direct testing in a human being represents the best evaluation of the risks. There is, therefore, a clear unmet need for assessing the safety of a therapeutic TCR in a more controllable manner than by the injection of permanently modified cellular products. Using transiently modified T cells combined with dose escalation has already been shown feasible for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cells, but nothing is yet reported for TCR. We performed a preclinical evaluation of a therapeutic TCR transiently expressed in T cells by mRNA electroporation. We analyzed if the construct was active in vitro, how long it was detectable for and if this expression format was adapted to in vivo efficacy assessment. Our data demonstrate the potential of mRNA engineered T cells, although less powerful than permanent redirection, to induce a significant response. Thus, these findings support the development of mRNA based TCR-therapy strategies as a feasible and efficacious method for evaluating TCR safety and efficacy in first-in-man testing.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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