Author:
Arruda Lucas C. M.,Stikvoort Arwen,Lambert Melanie,Jin Liqing,Rivera Laura Sanchez,Alves Renato M. P.,De Moura Tales Rocha,Mim Carsten,Lehmann Sören,Axelsson-Robertson Rebecca,Dick John E.,Mattsson Jonas,Önfelt Björn,Carlsten Mattias,Uhlin Michael
Abstract
Less than a third of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are cured by chemotherapy and/or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, highlighting the need to develop more efficient drugs. The low efficacy of standard treatments is associated with inadequate depletion of CD34+ blasts and leukemic stem cells, the latter a drug-resistant subpopulation of leukemia cells characterized by the CD34+CD38- phenotype. To target these drug-resistant primitive leukemic cells better, we have designed a CD34/CD3 bi-specific T-cell engager (BTE) and characterized its anti-leukemia potential in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo. Our results show that this CD34-specific BTE induces CD34-dependent T-cell activation and subsequent leukemia cell killing in a dose-dependent manner, further corroborated by enhanced T-cell-mediated killing at the singlecell level. Additionally, the BTE triggered efficient T-cell-mediated depletion of CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells from peripheral blood stem cell grafts and CD34+ blasts from AML patients. Using a humanized AML xenograft model, we confirmed that the CD34-specific BTE had in vivo efficacy by depleting CD34+ blasts and leukemic stem cells without side effects. Taken together, these data demonstrate that the CD34-specific BTE has robust antitumor effects, supporting development of a novel treatment modality with the aim of improving outcomes of patients with AML and myelodysplastic syndromes.
Publisher
Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica)
Cited by
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