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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-5-17
pubmed:abstractText
Improving the therapeutic efficacy of T cells expressing a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) represents an important goal in efforts to control B-cell malignancies. Recently an intrinsic strategy has been developed to modify the CAR itself to improve T-cell signaling. Here we report a second extrinsic approach based on altering the culture milieu to numerically expand CAR(+) T cells with a desired phenotype, for the addition of interleukin (IL)-21 to tissue culture improves CAR-dependent T-cell effector functions. We used electrotransfer of Sleeping Beauty system to introduce a CAR transposon and selectively propagate CAR(+) T cells on CD19(+) artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPC). When IL-21 was present, there was preferential numeric expansion of CD19-specific T cells which lysed and produced IFN-? in response to CD19. Populations of these numerically expanded CAR(+) T cells displayed an early memory surface phenotype characterized as CD62L(+)CD28(+) and a transcriptional profile of naïve T cells. In contrast, T cells propagated with only exogenous IL-2 tended to result in an overgrowth of CD19-specific CD4(+) T cells. Furthermore, adoptive transfer of CAR(+) T cells cultured with IL-21 exhibited improved control of CD19(+) B-cell malignancy in mice. To provide coordinated signaling to propagate CAR(+) T cells, we developed a novel mutein of IL-21 bound to the cell surface of aAPC that replaced the need for soluble IL-21. Our findings show that IL-21 can provide an extrinsic reprogramming signal to generate desired CAR(+) T cells for effective immunotherapy.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1538-7445
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
©2011 AACR
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
71
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3516-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-8-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Antigens, CD19, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Antigens, CD28, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-B-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Cell Lineage, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Coculture Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Hematologic Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Immunotherapy, Adoptive, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Interferon-gamma, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Interleukin-12, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Interleukins, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-K562 Cells, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-L-Selectin, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Mice, Inbred NOD, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-STAT3 Transcription Factor, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:21558388-T-Lymphocytes
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Reprogramming CD19-specific T cells with IL-21 signaling can improve adoptive immunotherapy of B-lineage malignancies.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pediatrics, Children's Cancer Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural