101. Suicide gene therapy of graft-versus-host disease induced by central memory human T lymphocytes.
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Bondanza A, Valtolina V, Magnani Z, Ponzoni M, Fleischhauer K, Bonyhadi M, Traversari C, Sanvito F, Toma S, Radrizzani M, La Seta-Catamancio S, Ciceri F, Bordignon C, and Bonini C
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- Animals, Antiviral Agents administration & dosage, CD28 Antigens immunology, Female, Ganciclovir administration & dosage, Genes, Transgenic, Suicide genetics, Graft vs Host Disease genetics, Graft vs Host Disease immunology, Graft vs Leukemia Effect genetics, Graft vs Leukemia Effect immunology, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Humans, Immunologic Memory, Mice, Mice, Inbred NOD, Mice, SCID, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell immunology, Simplexvirus genetics, Simplexvirus immunology, T-Lymphocytes transplantation, Thymidine Kinase genetics, Transplantation, Homologous, Viral Proteins genetics, Genes, Transgenic, Suicide immunology, Genetic Therapy, Graft vs Host Disease therapy, Retroviridae, T-Lymphocytes immunology, Thymidine Kinase immunology, Viral Proteins immunology
- Abstract
In allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT), the immune recognition of host antigens by donor T lymphocytes leads to a beneficial graft-versus-leukemia (GvL) effect as well as to life-threatening graft-versus-host disease (GvHD). Genetic modification of T lymphocytes with a retroviral vector (RV) expressing the herpes simplex virus-thymidine kinase (TK) suicide gene confers selective sensitivity to the prodrug ganciclovir (GCV). In patients, the infusion of TK+ lymphocytes and the subsequent administration of GCV resulted in a time-wise modulation of antihost reactivity for a GvL effect, while controlling GvHD. Because activation required for genetic modification with RV may reduce antihost reactivity, we investigated the requirements for maximizing the potency of human TK+ lymphocytes. Whereas T-cell receptor triggering alone led to effector memory (EM) TK+ lymphocytes, the addition of CD28 costimulation through cell-sized beads resulted in the generation of central memory (CM) TK+ lymphocytes. In a quantitative model for GvHD using nonobese diabetic/severely combined immunodeficient mice, CM TK+ lymphocytes were more potent than EM TK+ lymphocytes. GCV administration efficiently controlled GvHD induced by CM TK+ lymphocytes. These results warrant the clinical investigation of CM suicide gene-modified human T lymphocytes for safe and effective allo-HCT.
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- 2006
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