Combining adoptive cellular and immunocytokine therapies to improve treatment of B-lineage malignancy.
Currently, the lineage-specific cell-surface molecules CD19 and CD20 present on many B-cell malignancies are targets for both antibody- and cell-based therapies. Coupling these two treatment modalities is predicted to improve the antitumor effect, particularly for tumors resistant to single-agent biotherapies. This can be shown using an immunocytokine, composed of a CD20-specific monoclonal antibody fused to biologically active interleukin 2 (IL-2), combined with ex vivo expanded human umbilical cord blood-derived CD8(+) T cells, that have been genetically modified to be CD19 specific, for adoptive transfer after allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. We show that a benefit of targeted delivery of recombinant IL-2 by the immunocytokine to the CD19(+)CD20(+) tumor microenvironment is improved in vivo persistence of the CD19-specific T cells, and this results in an augmented cell-mediated antitumor effect. Phase I trials are under way using anti-CD20-IL-2 immunocytokine and CD19-specific T cells as monotherapies, and our results warrant clinical trials using combination of these two immunotherapies.
Singh
Harjeet
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Division of Molecular Medicine, Beckman Research Institute and City of Hope National Medical Center, USA.
Serrano
Lisa Marie
LM
Pfeiffer
Timothy
T
Olivares
Simon
S
McNamara
George
G
Smith
David D
DD
Al-Kadhimi
Zaid
Z
Forman
Stephen J
SJ
Gillies
Stephen D
SD
Jensen
Michael C
MC
Colcher
David
D
Raubitschek
Andrew
A
Cooper
Laurence J N
LJ
D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D018941:Antigens, CD19 / Q000276:immunology*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018796:Immunoconjugates / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology*; D016219:Immunotherapy, Adoptive / Q000379:methods*; D007376:Interleukin-2 / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology*; D020014:K562 Cells; D015448:Leukemia, B-Cell / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000276:immunology / Q000628:therapy*; D051379:Mice; D016688:Mice, Inbred NOD; D016513:Mice, SCID; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D018941:Antigens, CD19; D018796:Immunoconjugates; D007376:Interleukin-2