Ex vivo expansion of dendritic-cell-activated antigen-specific CD4+ T cells with anti-CD3/CD28, interleukin-7, and interleukin-15:: Potential for adoptive T cell immunotherapy
Ex vivo expansion of dendritic-cell-activated antigen-specific CD4+ T cells with anti-CD3/CD28, interleukin-7, and interleukin-15:: Potential for adoptive T cell immunotherapy
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DOI:
10.1016/j.clim.2005.11.003
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发表时间:
2006-04-01
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
Lin, CM
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作者:
Chen, HW;Liao, CH;Lin, CM
There is an increasing realization that the failure of adoptive therapy with cytotoxic T lymphocytes in the autotogous setting, at least in part, results from the lack of help from antigen-specific CD4(+) T cells. To incorporate these cells into this treatment strategy, it is not known whether currently used ex vivo culture conditions are adequate for expanding and charting these T cells with the desired qualities for optimal in vivo activity. In this study, we show that stimulation with agonistic antibodies to CD3 plus CD28 (anti-CD3/CD28), a commonly used method for CD4(+) T cell expansion, is unable to expand dendritic-cell-activated hepatitis B virus (HBV)-specific CD4(+) T cells to clinical relevant numbers. Whereas, in combination with interieukin(IL)-7 and IL-15, it leads to a 4000-fold expansion of HBV-specific CD4(+) T cells in 2 weeks. This outcome is correlated with the anti-apoptosis effect of IL-7 and IL-15. Importantly, antigen specificity is preserved during expansion. Although a late addition of IL-2 to the anti-CD3 /CD28-expanding cultures also results in robust expansion, this expansion condition renders HBV-specific CD4(+) T cells more sensitive to cytokine withdrawal-, activation-, and transforming growth factor-beta-induced cell death compared to those expanded in IL-7 and IL-15. Moreover, NKG2D rather than 4-1BB, whose ligands are constitutively expressed on tumor cells, is significantly up-regulated on IL-7/IL-15-expanded HBV-specific CD4(+) T cells, and its engagement promotes expansion and interferon-gamma production by these cells and thus may serve to provide co-stimulation to T cells once they reach tumor tissues. Collectively, these results may have important therapeutic implications for adoptive Tcell therapy. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.