Inhibition of Akt signaling promotes the generation of superior tumor-reactive T cells for adoptive immunotherapy
Publication year
2014Source
Blood, 124, 23, (2014), pp. 3490-500ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Laboratory Medicine
Haematology
Journal title
Blood
Volume
vol. 124
Issue
iss. 23
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p. 3490
Page end
p. 500
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Radboudumc 2: Cancer development and immune defence RIMLS: Radboud Institute for Molecular Life SciencesAbstract
Effective T-cell therapy against cancer is dependent on the formation of long-lived, stem cell-like T cells with the ability to self-renew and differentiate into potent effector cells. Here, we investigated the in vivo existence of stem cell-like antigen-specific T cells in allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) patients and their ex vivo generation for additive treatment posttransplant. Early after allo-SCT, CD8(+) stem cell memory T cells targeting minor histocompatibility antigens (MiHAs) expressed by recipient tumor cells were not detectable, emphasizing the need for improved additive MiHA-specific T-cell therapy. Importantly, MiHA-specific CD8(+) T cells with an early CCR7(+)CD62L(+)CD45RO(+)CD27(+)CD28(+)CD95(+) memory-like phenotype and gene signature could be expanded from naive precursors by inhibiting Akt signaling during ex vivo priming and expansion. This resulted in a MiHA-specific CD8(+) T-cell population containing a high proportion of stem cell-like T cells compared with terminal differentiated effector T cells in control cultures. Importantly, these Akt-inhibited MiHA-specific CD8(+) T cells showed a superior expansion capacity in vitro and in immunodeficient mice and induced a superior antitumor effect in intrafemural multiple myeloma-bearing mice. These findings provide a rationale for clinical exploitation of ex vivo-generated Akt-inhibited MiHA-specific CD8(+) T cells in additive immunotherapy to prevent or treat relapse in allo-SCT patients.
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