Induction/engineering, detection, selection, and expansion of clinical-grade human antigen-specific CD8 cytotoxic T cell clones for adoptive immunotherapy.
Adoptive transfer of effector antigen-specific immune cells is becoming a promising treatment option in allogeneic transplantation, infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmune disorders. Within this context, the important role of CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) is objective of intensive studies directed to their in vivo and ex vivo induction, detection, selection, expansion, and therapeutic effectiveness. Additional questions that are being addressed by the scientific community are related to the establishment and maintenance of their longevity and memory state as well as to defining critical conditions underlying their transitions between discrete, but functionally different subtypes. In this article we review and comment latest approaches and techniques used for preparing large amounts of antigen-specific CTLs, suitable for clinical use.
Tissue Typing Center, Blood Transfusion Centre of Slovenia, Slajmerjeva 6, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Matjaz
M
Jeras
Irena
I
Bricl
Robert
R
Zorec
Urban
U
Svajger
D000941:Antigens / Q000276:immunology*; D018414:CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology* / Q000276:immunology*; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods*; D002469:Cell Separation / Q000379:methods*; D019976:Cloning, Organism / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016219:Immunotherapy, Adoptive / Q000379:methods*
D000941:Antigens