Artificial antigen-presenting constructs efficiently stimulate minor histocompatibility antigen–specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes

LEM Oosten, E Blokland, AGS Van Halteren… - Blood, 2004 - ashpublications.org
LEM Oosten, E Blokland, AGS Van Halteren, J Curtsinger, MF Mescher, JHF Falkenburg…
Blood, 2004ashpublications.org
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for hematopoietic-restricted minor histocompatibility
antigens (mHags) are important reagents for adoptive immunotherapy of relapsed leukemia
after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. However, expansion of these CTLs to therapeutic
numbers is often hampered by the limited supply of antigen-presenting cells (APCs).
Therefore, we evaluated whether cell-sized latex beads coated with HLA/mHag complexes
HLA-A2/HA-1 or HLA-A2/HA-2 and recombinant CD80 and CD54 molecules can replace …
Abstract
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) specific for hematopoietic-restricted minor histocompatibility antigens (mHags) are important reagents for adoptive immunotherapy of relapsed leukemia after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. However, expansion of these CTLs to therapeutic numbers is often hampered by the limited supply of antigen-presenting cells (APCs). Therefore, we evaluated whether cell-sized latex beads coated with HLA/mHag complexes HLA-A2/HA-1 or HLA-A2/HA-2 and recombinant CD80 and CD54 molecules can replace professional APCs. The artificial antigen-presenting constructs (aAPCs) effectively stimulated HA-1– and HA-2–specific CTL clones as shown by ligand-specific expansion, cytokine production, and maintenance of cytotoxic activity, without alteration of CTL phenotype. Furthermore, HA-1–specific polyclonal CTL lines were enriched as efficiently by aAPCs as by autologous HA-1 peptide-pulsed dendritic cells. Thus, aAPCs coated with HLA/mHag complexes, CD80, and CD54 may serve as tools for in vitro enrichment of immunotherapeutic mHag-specific CTL lines.
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