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

V Leko, G Cafri, R Yossef, B Paria, V Hill… - … for Immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
V Leko, G Cafri, R Yossef, B Paria, V Hill, D Gurusamy, Z Zheng, JJ Gartner, TD Prickett…
Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer, 2021ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …
Abstract
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 (EED H189N) 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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