[PDF][PDF] Generation of tumor-reactive T cells by co-culture of peripheral blood lymphocytes and tumor organoids

KK Dijkstra, CM Cattaneo, F Weeber, M Chalabi… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
KK Dijkstra, CM Cattaneo, F Weeber, M Chalabi, J van de Haar, LF Fanchi, M Slagter
Cell, 2018cell.com
Cancer immunotherapies have shown substantial clinical activity for a subset of patients with
epithelial cancers. Still, technological platforms to study cancer T-cell interactions for
individual patients and understand determinants of responsiveness are presently lacking.
Here, we establish and validate a platform to induce and analyze tumor-specific T cell
responses to epithelial cancers in a personalized manner. We demonstrate that co-cultures
of autologous tumor organoids and peripheral blood lymphocytes can be used to enrich …
Summary
Cancer immunotherapies have shown substantial clinical activity for a subset of patients with epithelial cancers. Still, technological platforms to study cancer T-cell interactions for individual patients and understand determinants of responsiveness are presently lacking. Here, we establish and validate a platform to induce and analyze tumor-specific T cell responses to epithelial cancers in a personalized manner. We demonstrate that co-cultures of autologous tumor organoids and peripheral blood lymphocytes can be used to enrich tumor-reactive T cells from peripheral blood of patients with mismatch repair-deficient colorectal cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these T cells can be used to assess the efficiency of killing of matched tumor organoids. This platform provides an unbiased strategy for the isolation of tumor-reactive T cells and provides a means by which to assess the sensitivity of tumor cells to T cell-mediated attack at the level of the individual patient.
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