A Pan-Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Enhances the Antitumor Activity of B7-H3-Specific CAR T Cells in Solid Tumors.
A Pan-Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Enhances the Antitumor Activity of B7-H3-Specific CAR T Cells in Solid Tumors.
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10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-20-2487
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2021-07-01
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Fan S
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Lei X;Ou Z;Yang Z;Zhong J;Zhu Y;Tian J;Wu J;Deng H;Lin X;Peng Y;Li B;He L;Tu Z;Chen W;Li Q;Liu N;Zhang H;Wang Z;Fang Z;Yamada T;Lv X;Tian T;Pan G;Wu F;Xiao L;Zhang L;Cai T;Wang X;Tannous BA;Li J;Kontos F;Ferrone S;Fan S
The limited efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies with solid malignancies prompted us to test whether epigenetic therapy could enhance the antitumor activity of B7-H3 CAR T cells with several solid cancer types. We evaluated B7-H3 expression in many human solid cancer and normal tissue samples. The efficacy of the combinatorial therapy with B7-H3.CAR-T cells and the deacetylase inhibitor SAHA with several solid cancer types and the potential underlying mechanisms were characterized with in vitro and ex vivo experiments. B7-H3 is expressed in most of the human solid tumor samples tested, but exhibits a restricted expression in normal tissues. B7-H3.CAR-T cells selectively killed B7-H3 expressing human cancer cell lines in vitro. A low dose of SAHA upregulated B7-H3 expression in several types of solid cancer cells at the transcriptional level and B7-H3.CAR expression on human transgenic T cell membrane. In contrast, the expression of immunosuppressive molecules, such as CTLA-4 and TET2, by T cells was downregulated upon SAHA treatment. A low dose of SAHA significantly enhanced the antitumor activity of B7-H3.CAR-T cells with solid cancers in vitro and ex vivo, including orthotopic PDX and metastatic models treated with autologous CAR-T cell infusions. Our results show that our novel strategy which combines SAHA and B7-H3.CAR-T cells enhances their therapeutic efficacy with solid cancers and justify its translation to a clinical setting.