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PROSTATE
Volume 67, Issue 10, Pages 1121-1131Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pros.20608
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prostate carcinoma; PSCA; chimeric T-cell receptor; immunotherapy
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BACKGROUND. Curative therapeutic options for minimal residual disease or advanced tumor stages in prostate cancer (PCa) are still missing. Adoptive transfer of cytotoxic T-cells that have been polyclonally rendered tumor-specific by genetic engineering appears to be a promising immunotherapeutic strategy. Among the numerous prostate tissue/tumor antigens identified during the last years, the prostate stem cell antigen (PSCA) is an attractive immunotherapeutic target. It is broadly expressed on the surface of primary PCa cells as well as on PCa metastases. METHODS. To generate a chimeric T-cell receptor (TCR) recognizing PSCA, a monoclonal anti-PSCA antibody was raised and a single-chain fragment (scFv) was prepared. The resulting anti-PSCA scFv 7F5 was fused to the beta 2 constant region derived from the beta-chain of a TCR and to the CD3 zeta-signaling domain. RESULTS. The chimeric alpha-PSCA-beta 2/CD3 zeta-TCR, expressed in Jurkat cells, was phosphorylated in the ITAMs of the CD3-zeta chain upon cross-linking by insolublized PSCA. When transduced into a mouse cytotoxic T-cell line, the chimeric receptor specifically activated cytotoxicity against PSCA-positive tumor cells. CONCLUSIONS. We developed a functional chimeric TCR against PSCA for treatment of PCa. The chimeric alpha-PSCA-beta 2/CD3 zeta-TCR might now be used for arming human cytotoxic T-cells for further studies towards a clinical treatment of PCa.
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