Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE11564: Discovery of the targets of the immune response to chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2 patients using protein microarrays GSE11565: Discovery of the targets of the immune response to chronic myeloid leukemia in 3 patients using protein microarrays Keywords: SuperSeries Refer to individual Series
Project description:B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia - A model with immune response
Seema Nanda 1, , Lisette dePillis 2, and Ami Radunskaya 3,
1.
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore 560065, India
2.
Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
3.
Department of Mathematics, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 91711, United States
Abstract
B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is known to have substantial clinical heterogeneity. There is no cure, but treatments allow for disease management. However, the wide range of clinical courses experienced by B-CLL patients makes prognosis and hence treatment a significant challenge. In an attempt to study disease progression across different patients via a unified yet flexible approach, we present a mathematical model of B-CLL with immune response, that can capture both rapid and slow disease progression. This model includes four different cell populations in the peripheral blood of humans: B-CLL cells, NK cells, cytotoxic T cells and helper T cells. We analyze existing data in the medical literature, determine ranges of values for parameters of the model, and compare our model outcomes to clinical patient data. The goal of this work is to provide a tool that may shed light on factors affecting the course of disease progression in patients. This modeling tool can serve as a foundation upon which future treatments can be based.
Keywords: NK cell, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mathematical model, T cell., B-CLL.
Project description:Three patients who had relapsed chronic myeloid leukemia after allogeneic bone marrow transplant and received an immunotherapeutic intervention (donor lymphocyte infusion, or DLI) without further treatment were studied. The binding of serum immunoglobulins to proteins after immunotherapy was compared to before in two patients using Invitrogen ProtoArrays from a single lot. For a third patient, comparison was made between two timepoints after immunotherapy against one timepoint before using Invitrogen ProtoArrays from a separate lot. Significant interactions were determined by comparing each after sample separately against the before sample from that patient, using the Concentration-Dependent Analysis described in Marina et al., J Proteome Res, 2008. The goal was to identify proteins with significantly-increased reactivity after donor lymphocyte infusion. Keywords: Immune response discovery One sample from before and one sample from after immunotherapy were tested for 2 patients, and one sample from before and two samples from after immunotherapy were tested for a third patient.
Project description:Dasatinib has demonstrated efficacy in patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who had resistance or intolerance to imatinib. However, some patients also develop resistance or intolerance to dasatinib. To identify potential molecular pathways involved in primary resistance to dasatinib in CML, we analyzed gene expression profiles of mononuclear cells of 7 imatinib-resistant patients, collected before and after 1-year dasatinib treatment. Large-scale gene expression was measured with Agilent microarrays covering protein-coding genes and long (>200 nt) noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). Sets of genes and lncRNAs significantly differentially expressed (>1.5 fold-change; q value ?10%) were identified. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis pointed to a number of functions, canonical pathways and gene networks that were significantly enriched with differentially expressed genes. In addition to protein-coding genes, lncRNAs have been recently implicated in pathways leading to tumorigenesis. Our data point to new possible regulatory elements involved in dasatinib resistance in CML. Dasatinib pre-treatment and 1-yr post-treatment samples from 3 responders (R) or 4 non-responders (NR) chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients were investigated. We analyzed expression of Pre-treatment R vs. Pre-treatment NR; Pre-treatment R vs. Post-treatment NR; Pre-treatment NR vs. Post-treatment NR.
Project description:Dasatinib has demonstrated efficacy in patients with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who had resistance or intolerance to imatinib. However, some patients also develop resistance or intolerance to dasatinib. To identify potential molecular pathways involved in primary resistance to dasatinib in CML, we analyzed gene expression profiles of mononuclear cells of 7 imatinib-resistant patients, collected before and after 1-year dasatinib treatment. Large-scale gene expression was measured with Agilent microarrays covering protein-coding genes and long (>200 nt) noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs). Sets of genes and lncRNAs significantly differentially expressed (>1.5 fold-change; q value ≤10%) were identified. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis pointed to a number of functions, canonical pathways and gene networks that were significantly enriched with differentially expressed genes. In addition to protein-coding genes, lncRNAs have been recently implicated in pathways leading to tumorigenesis. Our data point to new possible regulatory elements involved in dasatinib resistance in CML. Dasatinib pre-treatment and 1-yr post-treatment samples from 3 responders (R) or 4 non-responders (NR) chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients were investigated. We analyzed expression of Pre-treatment R vs. Pre-treatment NR; Pre-treatment R vs. Post-treatment NR; Pre-treatment NR vs. Post-treatment NR.
Project description:Three patients who had relapsed chronic myeloid leukemia after allogeneic bone marrow transplant and received an immunotherapeutic intervention (donor lymphocyte infusion, or DLI) without further treatment were studied. The binding of serum immunoglobulins to proteins after immunotherapy was compared to before in two patients using Invitrogen ProtoArrays from a single lot. For a third patient, comparison was made between two timepoints after immunotherapy against one timepoint before using Invitrogen ProtoArrays from a separate lot. Significant interactions were determined by comparing each after sample separately against the before sample from that patient, using the Concentration-Dependent Analysis described in Marina et al., J Proteome Res, 2008. The goal was to identify proteins with significantly-increased reactivity after donor lymphocyte infusion. Keywords: Immune response discovery
Project description:Anti-leukemia immunity plays an important role for disease control and maintenance of tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)-free remission in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Antigen-specific immunotherapy holds promise to strengthen immune control in CML, but requires the identification of CML-associated targets. In this study, we used a mass spectrometry-based approach to identify naturally presented HLA class I- and class II-presented peptides in 20 primary CML samples. Comparative HLA ligandome profiling using a comprehensive dataset of different hematological benign specimen delineated a novel panel of frequently expressed CML-exclusive peptides. These non-mutated target antigens are of particular relevance since our extensive data-mining approach demonstrated absence of naturally presented BCR-ABL- and ABL-BCR-derived HLA-presented peptides and the lack of frequent tumor-exclusive presentation of predescribed cancer/testis and leukemia-associated antigens. Functional characterization revealed spontaneous T-cell responses against the newly identified CML-associated peptides in CML patients and their ability to de novo induce multifunctional and cytotoxic antigen-specific T cells in healthy volunteers and CML patients. This characterizes these antigens as prime candidates for T cell-based immunotherapy approaches that may prolong TKI-free survival and even mediate cure of CML patients.