Identification of neoantigen-reactive T lymphocytes in the peripheral blood of a patient with glioblastoma

Autor: Steven A Rosenberg, Paul Robbins, Biman Paria, Todd D Prickett, Jared J Gartner, Devikala Gurusamy, Stephanie L Goff, Vid Leko, Gal Cafri, Rami Yossef, Victoria Hill
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, Vol 9, Iss 7 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2051-1426
DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2021-002882
Popis: The adoptive transfer of naturally occurring T cells that recognize cancer neoantigens has led to durable tumor regressions in select patients with cancer. However, it remains unknown whether such T cells can be isolated from and used to treat patients with glioblastoma, a cancer that is refractory to currently available therapies. To answer this question, we stimulated patient blood-derived memory T cells in vitro using peptides and minigenes that represented point mutations unique to patients’ tumors (ie, candidate neoantigens) and then tested their ability to specifically recognize these mutations. In a cohort of five patients with glioblastoma, we found that circulating CD4+ memory T cells from one patient recognized a cancer neoantigen harboring a mutation in the EED gene (EEDH189N) that was unique to that patient’s tumor. This finding suggests that neoantigen-reactive T cells could indeed be isolated from patients with glioblastoma, thereby providing a rationale for further efforts to develop neoantigen-directed adoptive T cell therapy for this disease.
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