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CYTOTHERAPY
卷 15, 期 3, 页码 344-351出版社
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcyt.2012.11.014
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adoptive immunotherapy; Aspergillus; Candida; invasive fungal disease; mucormycete; T cell
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- Else Kroner-Fresenius Stiftung
Background aims. Invasive fungal infections, in particular, infections caused by Candida, Aspergillus and mucormycetes, are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Adoptive transfer of donor-derived anti-fungal T cells shows promise to restore immunity and to offer a cure. Because T cells recognize only specific epitopes, the low rate of patients in which the causal fungal pathogen can be identified and the considerable number of patients with co-infection with several genera or species of fungi significantly limit the application of adoptive immunotherapy. Methods. Using the interferon-gamma secretion assay, we isolated multi-specific human anti-fungal T cells after simultaneous stimulation with cellular extracts of Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida albicans and Rhizopus oryzae. Cells were phenotypically and functionally characterized by flow cytometry. Results.. Of a total of 1.1 x 10(9) peripheral blood mononuclear cells, a median number of 5.2 x 10(7) CD3(+)CD4(+) T cells was generated within 12 days. This cell population consisted of activated memory T(H)1 cells and reproducibly responded to a multitude of Aspergillus spp., Candida spp. and mucormycetes with interferon-gamma production. On re-stimulation, the generated T cells proliferated and enhanced anti-fungal activity of phagocytes and showed reduced alloreactivity compared with the original cell fraction. Conclusions. Our rapid and simple method of simultaneously generating functionally active multi-specific T cells that recognize a wide variety of medically relevant fungi may form the basis for future clinical trials investigating adoptive immunotherapy in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients with invasive fungal infection.
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