Gene expression profiles of human Natural Killer Cells, unstimulated and stimulated with IPH6501, a tetraspecific NK cell engager (NKCE).
The impact of IPH6501 treatment on the transcriptome of blood NK cells was dissequed using scRNA seq analysis. Unsupervised analysis of human blood NK cells revealed significant transcriptomic changes across NK1, NK2, and NK3 cell subsets following in vitro stimulation by CD20-NKCE-IL2v, indicating that treatment affect all NK cell subsets. Stimulation with the CD20-NKCE-IL2v led to the emergence of another NK cell cluster characterized by a signature resembling cytokine-induced memory-like (CIML) NK cells similar to that found in NK cells activated by IL-2/IL-15/IL-12/IL-18. This population was observed at both 4- and 24-hours post-stimulation. Overall design: Human NK cells, purified from 4 healthy donor PBMC, were activated for 4h and 24h in the presence of the murine huCD20-B16F10 target cells, with 0.1 µg/mL of CD20-NKCE-IL2v (IPH6501), or without treatment (unstimulated).