Clinical-scale production of Aspergillus-specific T cells for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis in the immunocompromised host.


Journal

Bone marrow transplantation
ISSN: 1476-5365
Titre abrégé: Bone Marrow Transplant
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8702459

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 2019
Historique:
received: 07 11 2018
accepted: 25 02 2019
revised: 24 02 2019
pubmed: 15 3 2019
medline: 15 3 2019
entrez: 15 3 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) represents a leading cause of mortality in immunocompromised patients. Although adoptive immunotherapy with Aspergillus-specific T cells (Asp-STs) represents a promising therapeutic approach against IA, the complex and costly production limits its broader application. We generated Asp-STs from a single blood draw of healthy individuals or IA patients in only 10 days, by either Aspergillus fumigatus (AF) lysate or peptide stimulation of mononuclear cells. The cells were phenotypically and functionally characterized, and safety was assessed in xenografts. Healthy donor-derived and lysate- or peptide-pulsed Asp-STs presented comparable fold expansion, immunophenotype, and Th1 responses. Upon cross-stimulation, only the lysate-pulsed Asp-STs were empowered to respond to peptide stimulation, although both cell products induced hyphal damage. Importantly, Asp-STs cross-reacted with other fungal species and did not induce alloreactivity in vivo. IA patient-derived T cells displayed an anergic phenotype that prohibited sufficient expansion and yield of meaningful doses of Asp-STs for autologous immunotherapy. Using a rapid and simple process, we generated, from healthy donors but not IA patients, functionally active Asp-STs of broad specificity and at clinically relevant numbers. Such an approach may form the basis for the effective management of IA in the context of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30867554
doi: 10.1038/s41409-019-0501-9
pii: 10.1038/s41409-019-0501-9
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Pagination

1963-1972

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

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Auteurs

Anastasia Papadopoulou (A)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece. apapadopoulou.gpapanikolaou@n3.syzefxis.gov.gr.

Maria Alvanou (M)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.
Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.

Kiriakos Koukoulias (K)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.
Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.

Evangelia Athanasiou (E)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.

Andriana Lazaridou (A)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.

Nikolaos Savvopoulos (N)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.
Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.

Panayotis Kaloyannidis (P)

Adult Hematology and Stem Cell Transplant, King Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam, Dammam, 32253, Saudi Arabia.

Anthi-Marina Markantonatou (AM)

1st Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.

Timoleon-Achilleas Vyzantiadis (TA)

1st Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.

Minas Yiangou (M)

Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece.

Achilles Anagnostopoulos (A)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.

Evangelia Yannaki (E)

Hematology Department-Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Unit, Gene and Cell Therapy Center, "George Papanikolaou" Hospital, Thessaloniki, 57010, Greece.
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.

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