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2. Engineered T Cells for the Adoptive Therapy of B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia.
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Koehler, Philipp, Schmidt, Patrick, Hombach, Andreas A., Hallek, Michael, and Abken, Hinrich
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T cells , *CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia , *B cells , *CANCER relapse , *CLINICAL trials , *CHIMERIC proteins , *ANTIGEN receptors , *MAJOR histocompatibility complex , *CD19 antigen - Abstract
B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) remains an incurable disease due to the high risk of relapse, even after complete remission, raising the need to control and eliminate residual tumor cells in long term. Adoptive T cell therapy with genetically engineered specificity is thought to fulfil expectations, and clinical trials for the treatment of CLL are initiated. Cytolytic T cells from patients are redirected towards CLL cells by ex vivo engineering with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which binds to CD19 on CLL cells through an antibody-derived domain and triggers T cell activation through CD3ζ upon tumor cell engagement. Redirected T cells thereby target CLL cells in an MHC-unrestricted fashion, secret proinflammatory cytokines, and eliminate CD19+ leukaemia cells with high efficiency. Cytolysis of autologous CLL cells by patient's engineered T cells is effective, however, accompanied by lasting elimination of healthy CD19+ B-cells. In this paper we discuss the potential of the strategy in the treatment of CLL, the currently ongoing trials, and the future challenges in the adoptive therapy with CAR-engineered T cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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3. B- AND T-LYMPHOCYTE MARKERS ON TRANSFORMED LYMPHOCYTES FROM MITOGEN-STIMULATED CULTURES OF NORMAL AND CLL LYMPHOCYTES AND ON TONSIL BLASTS.
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Smith, J. L. and Haegert, D.
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T cells , *B cells , *LYMPHOCYTES , *MITOGENS , *CHRONIC lymphocytic leukemia , *IMMUNOGLOBULIN G - Abstract
Mitogen-transformed human peripheral blood lymphocytes and tonsil blasts were examined by rosette formation to detect the presence of membrane-bound immunoglobulin (Ig) and surface receptors for fixed IgG and fixed C3. In addition, the capacity of these cells to rosette with sheep erythrocytes was evaluated as a reaction characteristic of T lymphocytes. In order for clear morphological recognition of the rosetting transformed lymphocytes and the rosetting tonsil blasts a cytocentrifuge technique was developed and used in conjunction with autoradiography and/or with Romanowsky stains. Using these techniques and the culture methods described in this paper phytohaemagglutinin, pokeweed mitogen, streptococcal filtrates and purified protein derivative stimulated predominantly T cells in the peripheral blood of man. A minority of the transformed cells in these mitogen-stimulated cultures (<24%) did rosette with B lymphocyte markers and presumably represent a B-cell response. No significant differences were found between the T- or B-cell specificity of the mitogens investigated. Lymphoid preparations from tonsils excised from normal donors with recurrent tonsillitis were found to contain 6-15% lymphoblasts and the iarge majority of these cells formed rosettes with the B-cell markers, less than 20% of these lymphoblasts formed spontaneous sheep erythrocyte rosettes. Using a mixed rosetting technique a small proportion (<5%) of PHA-transformed cells and tonsil lymphoblasts were found to have combined sheep Fc or combined sheep C3 receptors. The investigation of B- and T-lymphocyte surface markers on mitogentransformed lymphocytes was extended to neopiastic lymphocyte populations and it was found that the majority of transformed cells (>70%) present in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cultures stimulated with PHA after 6 days incubation were transformed T lymphocytes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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