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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOTHERAPY
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 163-172Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/CJI.0b013e318206a10c
Keywords
T cells; T-cell receptor gene transfer; gene therapy; gene regulation/T-cell activation
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- Dutch Cancer Society [NKB 2005-3251]
- ZonMw [ZonMw 3867]
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To broaden the applicability of cellular immunotherapy, adoptive transfer of T-cell receptor (TCR) transferred T cells may be an attractive strategy. Using this approach, high numbers of defined antigen-specific T cells can be engineered. As the introduced TCR has to compete for cell surface expression with the endogenous TCR, the introduced TCR chains are under control of a strong viral promotor, which, in contrast to the endogenous promotor, is constitutively active. We examined whether this difference in regulation would result in differences in TCR internalization and re-expression of the introduced and endogenous TCR on dual TCR engineered T cells and the antigen-responsiveness of both the TCRs. We showed comparable TCR downregulation of TCRs expressed under regulation of a retroviral promotor or the endogenous promotor. However, the introduced TCRs were rapidly re-expressed on the cell surface after TCR stimulation. Despite rapid re-expression of the introduced TCR, T cells exerted similar antigen-sensitivity compared with control T cells, showing that cell mechanisms other than TCR cell surface expression are involved in antigen-sensitivity directly after antigen-specific stimulation. These results showed that TCR transduced T cells are functionally not different from nontransduced T cells and can potentially be used as an effective treatment strategy.
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