Identification of chimeric antigen receptors that mediate constitutive or inducible proliferation of T cells.
Identification of chimeric antigen receptors that mediate constitutive or inducible proliferation of T cells.
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DOI:
10.1158/2326-6066.cir-14-0186
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发表时间:
2015-04
影响因子:
10.1
通讯作者:
June CH
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作者:
Frigault MJ;Lee J;Basil MC;Carpenito C;Motohashi S;Scholler J;Kawalekar OU;Guedan S;McGettigan SE;Posey AD Jr;Ang S;Cooper LJ;Platt JM;Johnson FB;Paulos CM;Zhao Y;Kalos M;Milone MC;June CH
This study compared second generation chimeric antigen receptors encoding signaling domains composed of CD28, ICOS and 4-1BB. Here we report that certain CARs endow T cells with the ability to undergo long-term autonomous proliferation. Transduction of primary human T-cell with lentiviral vectors encoding some of the CARs resulted in sustained proliferation for up to three months following a single stimulation through the TCR. Sustained numeric expansion was independent of cognate antigen and did not require the addition of exogenous cytokines or feeder cells after a single stimulation of the TCR and CD28. Results from gene array and functional assays linked sustained cytokine secretion and expression of T-bet, EOMES and GATA-3 to the effect. Sustained expression of the endogenous IL2 locus has not been reported in primary T cells. Sustained proliferation was dependent on CAR structure and high expression, the latter of which was necessary but not sufficient. The mechanism involves constitutive signaling through NF-kB, Akt, Erk and NFAT. The propagated CAR T cells retained a diverse TCR repertoire and cellular transformation was not observed. The CARs with a constitutive growth phenotype displayed inferior antitumor effects and engraftment in vivo. Therefore the design of CARs that have a non-constitutive growth phenotype may be a strategy to improve efficacy and engraftment of CAR T cells. The identification of CARs that confer constitutive or non-constitutive growth patterns may explain observations that CAR T cells have differential survival patterns in clinical trials.