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Clonal kinetics and single cell transcriptional profiling of adoptively transferred CD19-specific CD8+ CAR-T cells in adults with B cell malignancies

ABSTRACT: Lymphodepletion chemotherapy followed by infusion of T cells modified to express a CD19-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) has produced remarkable anti-tumor responses in patients with B cell malignancies. However, little is known about the clonal composition and transcriptional heterogeneity of CAR-T cells in the infusion products (IP) and clonal kinetics after adoptive transfer. We performed single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) on CD8+ CAR-T cells isolated from the IP and the blood of patients treated on a phase 1 clinical trial (NCT01865617) with lymphodepletion chemotherapy and a defined formulation of CD4+ and CD8+ CD19-specific CAR-T cells. Infused CD8+ CAR-T cells displayed transcriptional heterogeneity which declined after adoptive transfer, coincident with early expression of genes associated with activation. We identified four transcriptionally distinct CAR-T cell subsets in the IP and found that these subsets differed in their contributions to the CAR-T cell population detected in blood after infusion. Better understanding of the kinetics of clonal expansion of CAR-T cells after adoptive transfer may provide insight into strategies to improve CAR-T cell immunotherapy.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE125881 | GEO | 2019/11/22

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Clonal kinetics and single cell transcriptional profiling of adoptively transferred CD19-specific CD8+ CAR-T cells in adults with B cell malignancies

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