Rapid αβ TCR-mediated responses in γδ T cells transduced with cancer-specific TCR genes
Rapid αβ TCR-mediated responses in γδ T cells transduced with cancer-specific TCR genes
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DOI:
10.1038/gt.2009.6
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发表时间:
2009-05-01
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5.1
通讯作者:
Shiku, H.
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作者:
Hiasa, A.;Nishikawa, H.;Shiku, H.
Adoptive T-cell transfer of in vitro cultured T cells derived from cancer patients with naturally developed immune responses has met with some success as an immunotherapeutic approach, although only a limited number of patients showed spontaneous immune responses. To find alternative ways, such as cancer-specific T-cell receptor (TCR) gene transfer, in preparation for sufficient numbers of antigen-specific T cells is an important issue in the field of adoptive T-cell therapy. Given the inherent disadvantage of alpha beta TCR transfer to other alpha beta T cells, namely the possible formation of mixed TCR heterodimers with endogenous alpha or beta TCR, we employed gamma delta T cells as a target for retroviral transfer of cancer-specific TCR and examined whether gamma delta T cells were useful as an alternative population for TCR transfer. Although retroviral transduction to gamma delta T cells with TCR alpha beta genes alone, isolated from a MAGE-A4(143-151)-specific ab CD8(+) cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) clone, did not provide sufficient affinity to recognize major histocompatibility (MHC)-peptide complexes due to the lack of CD8 co-receptor, gamma delta T cells co-transduced with TCR alpha beta and CD8 alpha beta genes acquired cytotoxicity against tumor cells and produced cytokines in both alpha beta- and gamma delta- TCR-dependent manners. Furthermore, alpha beta TCR and CD8-transduced gd T cells, stimulated either through ab TCR or gd TCR, rapidly responded to target cells compared with conventional alpha beta T cells, reminiscent of gamma delta T cells. We propose alpha beta TCR-transduced gd T cells as an alternative strategy for adoptive T-cell transfer. Gene Therapy (2009) 16, 620-628; doi: 10.1038/gt.2009.6; published online 26 February 2009