title: Feasibility of cellular adoptive immunotherapy for Epstein-Barr virus-associated lymphomas using haploidentical donors.
abstract: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphomas following bone marrow or solid organ transplantation are often sensitive to immunomodulatory therapies. These have included withdrawal or reduction in immunosuppressive therapy in the solid organ transplant setting and adoptive cellular therapies in the bone marrow transplant (BMT) setting. We describe a strategy for generating EBV-specific cytotoxic T cell therapy lines with substantial killing activity against haploidentical targets. Weekly stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) for 3 weeks with the irradiated cells of an autologous EBV-transformed B lymphoblastoid cell line (B-LCL), followed by stimulation in the presence of IL-2, yielded T cell lines that were cytolytic for haploidentical B-LCLs but did not lyse haploidentical targets not expressing EBV antigens.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Orentas
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Lemas
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Mullin
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Colombani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ambinder
mesh_terms: D019264:Adoptive Transfer; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006239:Haplotypes; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human; D006801:Humans; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013602:T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic / Q000276:immunology* / Q000637:transplantation*; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014185:Transplantation, Isogeneic
chemical_list: D007376:Interleukin-2