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Preclinical Development of Bivalent Chimeric Antigen Receptors Targeting Both CD19 and CD22

Despite high remission rates following CAR-T cell therapy in B-ALL, relapse due to loss of the targeted antigen is increasingly recognized as a mechanism of immune escape. We hypothesized that simultaneous targeting of CD19 and CD22 may reduce the likelihood of antigen loss, thus improving sustained...

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Autores principales: Qin, Haiying, Ramakrishna, Sneha, Nguyen, Sang, Fountaine, Thomas J., Ponduri, Anusha, Stetler-Stevenson, Maryalice, Yuan, Constance M., Haso, Waleed, Shern, Jack F., Shah, Nirali N., Fry, Terry J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6300726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581986
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omto.2018.10.006
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Sumario:Despite high remission rates following CAR-T cell therapy in B-ALL, relapse due to loss of the targeted antigen is increasingly recognized as a mechanism of immune escape. We hypothesized that simultaneous targeting of CD19 and CD22 may reduce the likelihood of antigen loss, thus improving sustained remission rates. A systematic approach to the generation of CAR constructs incorporating two target-binding domains led to several novel CD19/CD22 bivalent CAR constructs. Importantly, we demonstrate the challenges associated with the construction of a bivalent CAR format that preserves bifunctionality against both CD19 and CD22. Using the most active bivalent CAR constructs, we found similar transduction efficiency compared to that of either CD19 or CD22 single CARs alone. When expressed on human T cells, the optimized CD19/CD22 CAR construct induced comparable interferon γ and interleukin-2 in vitro compared to single CARs against dual-antigen-expressing as well as single-antigen-expressing cell lines. Finally, the T cells expressing CD19/CD22 CAR eradicated ALL cell line xenografts and patient-derived xenografts (PDX), including a PDX generated from a patient with CD19(−) relapse following CD19-directed CAR therapy. The CD19/CD22 bivalent CAR provides an opportunity to test whether simultaneous targeting may reduce risk of antigen loss.