Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Department of Pathology, Medicine and Oncology, and.
J Clin Invest. 2019 Jan 2;129(1):69-71. doi: 10.1172/JCI125471. Epub 2018 Dec 10.
Adoptive cell transfer (ACT) of engineered T cell receptors (TCRs) for cancer immunotherapy has evolved from simple gene transfer of isolated TCRs to various affinity enhancement techniques that overcome limitations imposed by central and peripheral tolerance on TCR affinity. In the current issue of the JCI, Poncette et al. used mice with human TCRαβ and HLA gene loci to discover CD4+ TCRs of optimal affinity for cancer testis antigen (CTA) NY-ESO-1. They combined this TCR with a previously discovered NY-ESO-1-specific CD8+ TCR in an ACT fibrosarcoma tumor model to demonstrate the importance of T cell help in mediating antitumor responses.
过继细胞转移 (ACT) 的工程 T 细胞受体 (TCRs) 用于癌症免疫治疗,已经从简单的 TCR 分离基因转移发展到各种亲和力增强技术,克服了 TCR 亲和力受到中枢和外周耐受的限制。在本期 JCI 中,Poncette 等人利用具有人类 TCRαβ 和 HLA 基因座的小鼠,发现了对癌症睾丸抗原 (CTA) NY-ESO-1 具有最佳亲和力的 CD4+ TCR。他们将这种 TCR 与之前发现的 NY-ESO-1 特异性 CD8+ TCR 结合,在 ACT 纤维肉瘤肿瘤模型中证明了 T 细胞辅助在介导抗肿瘤反应中的重要性。