Antitumor activity of EBV-specific T lymphocytes transduced with a dominant negative TGF-beta receptor

作者：Foster Aaron E; Dotti Gianpietro; Lu An; Khalil Mariam; Brenner Malcolm K; Heslop Helen E; Rooney Cliona M; Bollard Catherine M^*

来源：Journal of Immunotherapy, 2008, 31(5): 500-505.

DOI：10.1097/CJI.0b013e318177092b

• non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Hodgkin disease
• TGF-beta
• cytotoxic T lymphocyte

Transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta is produced in most human tumors and markedly inhibits tumor antigen-specific cellular immunity, representing a major obstacle to the success of tumor immunotherapy. TGF-beta is produced in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-positive Hodgkin disease and non-Hodgkin lymphoma both by the tumor cells and by infiltrating T-regulatory cells and may contribute the escape of these tumors from infused EBV-specific T cells. To determine whether tumor antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) can be shielded from the inhibitory effects of tumor-derived TGF-beta, we previously used a hemagglutinin-tagged dominant negative TGF-beta RII expressed from a retrovirus vector to provide CTLs with resistance to the inhibitory effects of TGF-beta in vitro. We now show that human tumor antigen-specific CTLs can be engineered to resist the inhibitory effects of tumor-derived TGF-beta both in vitro and in vivo using a clinical grade retrovirus vector in which the dominant negative TGF-beta type II receptor (DNRII) was modified to remove the immunogenic hemagglutinin tag. TGF-beta-resistant CTL had a functional advantage over unmodified CTL in, the presence of TGF-beta-secreting EBV-positive lymphoma, and had enhanced antitumor activity, supporting the potential value of this countermeasure.

• 出版日期2008-6