Tumor targeting of innate and adaptive immunity by the adoptive cell transfer of engineered T lymphocytes co-expressing iNKT and tumor-specific MHC-I TCRs

نویسندگان

  • Benjamin O Tschumi
  • Justyna Iwaszkiewicz
  • Lianjun Zhang
  • Stéphanie Corgnac
  • Jean-Pierre Mach
  • Pedro Romero
  • Alena Donda
چکیده

CD1d-restricted invariant NKT cells (iNKT) exert potent anti-tumor effects by virtue of their ability to transactivate NK cells, dendritic cells and T lymphocytes. However, their use in cancer immunotherapy has been limited by their short-lived activation followed by a phase of long-term anergy after a single injection of the high affinity CD1d ligand alpha-galactosylceramide (aGC). Instead, we have demonstrated that repeated injections of recombinant soluble aGC-loaded CD1d molecules resulted in the sustained iNKT and NK cell activation, which correlated with prolonged antitumor effects when the aGC/sCD1d was fused to an antitumor scFv fragment. In addition, we recently showed that aGC/CD1d-antitumor fusion protein greatly increased the efficacy of a therapeutic peptide/CpGbased cancer vaccine, first as an adjuvant during T cell priming and second, as a therapeutic agent to redirect immune responses to the tumor site. To optimize the synergy between iNKT cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), we aim at conferring both antigen specificities to the same T lymphocyte by transducing iNKT cells with high avidity MHC-I-restricted TCR, or conversely transduce CTLs with the CD1d-restricted iNKT invTCR. Indeed, the simultaneous triggering of transduced HLA-A2/NY-ESO-I TCR and of the endogenous iNKT TCR led to increased cytokine secretion and killing of HLA-A2 and HER2 positive tumor cells, when pulsed with the antigenic peptide and coated with the CD1d-antiHER2 fusion protein. To reduce TCR mispairing between endogenous and transduced TCRs, we are developing human and mouse single chain iNKT TCRs (iNKT scTv) fused to CAR-derived activation domains. The stability between the murine Va and Vb variable domains of the iNKT scTv is being optimized by site-directed mutagenesis and by spacer design. The resulting variants transduced in MHC-I-restricted T cells are tested for their binding to aGC/CD1d multimer and for TCR function. In vivo studies will involve the adoptive transfer of iNKT scTv-transduced tumor-specific CTLs in immunized mice grafted with tumor cells co-expressing the MHC-I-restricted and CD1dtargeted antigens. It is expected that this approach will confer CD1d-glycolipid specificity to tumor-specific CD8 T cells, in which a major advantage is the availability of a single invariant TCR that can be offered to all patients independently of their MHC-I haplotype.

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دوره 2  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2014