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Long-term surviving cancer patients as a source of therapeutic TCR

Authors :
Else Marit Inderberg
Sébastien Wälchli
Source :
Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.

Abstract

We have established a platform for the isolation of tumour-specific TCR from T cells of patients who experienced clinical benefit from cancer vaccination. In this review we will present the rationale behind this strategy and discuss the advantages of working with “natural” wild type TCRs. Indeed, the general trend in the field has been to use various modifications to enhance the affinity of such therapeutic TCRs. This was done to obtain stronger T cell responses, often at the cost of safety. We further describe antigen targets and recent in vitro and in vivo results obtained to validate them. We finally discuss the use of MHC class II-restricted TCR in immunotherapy. Typically cellular anti-tumour immune responses have been attributed to CD8 T cells; however, we isolated mainly CD4 T cells. Importantly, these MHC class II-restricted TCRs have the potential to induce broad, long lasting immune responses that enable cancer control. The use of CD4 T cell-derived TCRs for adoptive immunotherapy has so far been limited and we will here discuss their therapeutic potential.

Details

ISSN :
14320851 and 03407004
Volume :
69
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....8583a3600b3e9e55a4d50bf4718fc20f