Project description:A previously established bioassay using Jurkat cells overexpressing PD1 and Lag3 allowed for assessment of simultaneous blockade of PD1 and LAG3 pathways in an in-vitro setting and demonstrated that an antibody cocktail increased IL-2 levels 5-fold better than single agent treatment. To gain understanding of signal transduction events RNA-Seq analysis of cell pellets individually treated with LAG3 or PD1 antibodies was used to reveal modest immune activation however, 5-fold more genes were upregulated upon combination treatment. There were increases in costimulatory genes like CD28, CD5, CD6 as well as other intracellular signaling molecules like LCP2 and ITK. Given the role of ERK in immune activation of T cells, pERK levels of Jurkat cells in the assay were evaluated, indicating that ERK phosphorylation was impacted on PD1 and LAG3 engagement with their ligands and this could be reversed by antibody blockade. A small molecule phosphatase inhibitor NSC87877, when combined with the PD1 antibody, could phenocopy the effect of combining PD1 and LAG3 blocking antibodies. CD28 has a recognized role in PD1 signaling but the impact on LAG3 signaling remains unknown. CD28 knockout cells demonstrated an overall muted IL-2 response but retained combination benefit in terms of IL-2 production in the context of LAG3 and PD1 co-blockade versus individual antibody treatments. Taken together, these observations provide new insights on the impact of LAG3 and PD1 co-blockade and provides additional support for ongoing immunotherapy clinical trials that combine PD1 and LAG3 antibodies.
Project description:Background: Cancer Immunotherapy with cytokines has demonstrated clinical efficacy but is frequently accompanied with severe adverse events caused by excessive and systemic immune activation. Here, we addressed these challenges by engineering a fusion protein of a single, potency-reduced, IL-15 mutein and an anti-PD1 antibody (αPD1-IL15m). This immunocytokine is designed to deliver PD1-mediated avidity-driven IL-2/15 receptor stimulation preferentially to PD1-positive tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) while reducing the natural preference of IL-15 for circulating peripheral NK or T cell Methods: We isolated human lymphocytes from resected hepatocellular carcinoma tissue and cultured these tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in vitro in the presence or absence of an PD1-targeted IL15 mutein, anti-PD1 antibody or IL-15 agonist. After 9 days, CD4+ TILs and CD8+ TILs were sorted by FACS and RNA of 3,000 to 150,000 cells was isolated. Results: The PD1-IL15 fusion cytokine enhanced pro-survival, proliferation and activation pathways in tumor-infiltrating CD4+ and CD8+ cells compared to untreated controls as well as to the combined treatment of single agents (anti-PD1 antibody and IL-15 agonist)
Project description:Recent success in cancer immunotherapy has come from the blockade of inhibitory receptors on T cells, such as programmed cell death-1, which can induce a state of T cell exhaustion upon constant antigen stimulation. Understanding miRNA regulation of PD1 can be useful to discover miRNAs for use in therapy or as prognostic markers in various diseases including cancer, autoimmunity and transplantation. We used microarrays to discover global miRNA expression changes upon PD1 upregulation and identified miRNAs that are both up- and down-regulated. B16F10 cells were injected subcutaneously into C57BL/6 mice and 16 days later CD4+PD1+ and CD4+PD1- were sorted from the lymph nodes and spleen for RNA extraction and hybridization on Affymetrix miRNA array.
Project description:This study was a phase I/II trial initiated by the investigator to evaluate the safety and tolerability of anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD1) antibody-activated autologous tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) combined with adjuvant chemotherapy in participants with stage III colon cancer. Twenty participants were enrolled and anti-PD1 antibody-activated TILs was infused into participants after the final of adjuvant chemotherapy to assess the safety and 3-year disease-free survival.
Project description:Total RNA from cell lines (JurkatLAG+PD1+ and Raji-PDL1) treated with anti-PD1 antibody (MK3475) and/ or anti-LAG3 antibody (MK4280) was sequenced.
Project description:PD1 antibody is now recommended for dMMR/MSI-H metastatic colorectal cancer patients as second line. Chemoradiotherapy is standand treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer and is also recommended as an alternative choice for unresectable locally advanced colon cancer. Thus, this study will investigate the efficacy and toxicity of combination strategy using PD1 antibody and chemoradiotherapy for dMMR/MSI-H locally advnaced colorectal cancer patients.
Project description:We evaluated blood samples from 6 patients with metastatic melanoma treated with anti-LAG3+anti-PD1 (160+480 mg) in a phase I trial (NCT01968109) using single-cell RNA and T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing (scRNA+TCRαβ-seq, 10X 5') combined with other multiomics profiling (flow, cytokine, TCRb-seq) from a larger cohort of 40 patients. This data set include three time points, including baseline, 1 month, and 3 month. The sorting is CD45+.
Project description:In this study, participants with locally advanced rectal cancer patients will be treated according to MMR/MSI status. There will be two cohorts in this study: Cohort A and Cohort B. For Cohort A, dMMR or MSI-H patients will receive 4 cycles of neoadjuvant Pd1 antibody Sintilimab,followed by one of the following treatments: (1) surgery and adjuvant treatment, (2)another 4 cycles of sintilimab, followed by radical surgery or observation (only for cCR) . For Cohort B, pMMR/MSS/MSI-L patients will be randomized to receive neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy ± four cycles of Pd1 antibody Sintilimab,followed by one of the following treatments: (1) curative surgery and four cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy;(2)four cycles of chemotherapy then observation (only cCR after neoadjuvant therapy)
Project description:We performed a phase I clinical trial to assess the safety and feasibility of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and re-induction of anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in patients with anti-PD-1-refractory metastatic melanoma. FMT donors were two metastatic melanoma patients who achieved a durable complete response. FMT recipient patients were metastatic melanoma patients who failed at least one anti-PD-1 line of treatment. Each recipient patient received FMT implants from only one of the two donors. FMT was conducted by both colonoscopy and oral ingestion of stool capsules, followed by anti-PD-1 re-treatment (Nivolumab, BMS). Recipient patients underwent pre- and post-treatment stool sampling, tissue biopsy of both gut and tumor, and total body imaging. Clinical responses were observed in three patients, including two partial responses and one complete response. Notably, treatment with FMT was associated with favorable changes in immune cell infiltrates and gene expression profiles in both the gut lamina propria and the tumor microenvironment.