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Dual targeting ovarian cancer by Muc16 CAR T cells secreting a bispecific T cell engager antibody for an intracellular tumor antigen WT1

Journal

CANCER IMMUNOLOGY IMMUNOTHERAPY
Volume 72, Issue 11, Pages 3773-3786

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00262-023-03529-w

Keywords

Dual targeting; Muc16 CAR T cells; TCR mimic mAb; WT1; ESK1 BiTE

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This study describes an engineered cell with dual targeting and orthogonal cytotoxic modalities to overcome the limitations of CAR T cell therapy in epithelial ovarian cancer. The engineered cell showed enhanced anticancer activity against cancer cells with low Muc16 expression, presenting a promising strategy to overcome resistance to CAR T cell therapy.
Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most lethal of gynecological cancers. The therapeutic efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell directed against single antigens is limited by the heterogeneous target antigen expression in epithelial ovarian tumors. To overcome this limitation, we describe an engineered cell with both dual targeting and orthogonal cytotoxic modalities directed against two tumor antigens that are highly expressed on ovarian cancer cells: cell surface Muc16 and intracellular WT1. Muc16-specific CAR T cells (4H11) were engineered to secrete a bispecific T cell engager (BiTE) constructed from a TCR mimic antibody (ESK1) reactive with the WT1-derived epitope RMFPNAPYL (RMF) presented by HLA-A2 molecules. The secreted ESK1 BiTE recruited and redirected other T cells to WT1 on the tumor cells. We show that ESK1 BiTE-secreting 4H11 CAR T cells exhibited enhanced anticancer activity against cancer cells with low Muc16 expression, compared to 4H11 CAR T cells alone, both in vitro and in mouse tumor models. Dual orthogonal cytotoxic modalities with different specificities targeting both surface and intracellular tumor-associated antigens present a promising strategy to overcome resistance to CAR T cell therapy in epithelial ovarian cancer and other cancers.

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