Ahmad Saeed, Xing Kun, Rajakaruna Harshana, Stewart William C, Beckwith Kyle A, Nayak Indrani, Kararoudi Meisam Naeimi, Lee Dean A, Das Jayajit
Steve and Cindy Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine, Abigail Wexner Research Institute, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Abigail Wexner Research Institute, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH.
bioRxiv. 2025 Jan 2:2024.12.31.630941. doi: 10.1101/2024.12.31.630941.
Uncovering mechanisms and predicting tumor cell responses to CAR-NK cytotoxicity is essential for improving therapeutic efficacy. Currently, the complexity of these effector-target interactions and the donor-to-donor variations in NK cell receptor (NKR) repertoire require functional assays to be performed experimentally for each manufactured CAR-NK cell product and target combination. Here, we developed a computational mechanistic multiscale model which considers heterogenous expression of CARs, NKRs, adhesion receptors and their cognate ligands, signal transduction, and NK cell-target cell population kinetics. The model trained with quantitative flow cytometry and in vitro cytotoxicity data accurately predicts the short- and long-term cytotoxicity of CD33CAR-NK cells against leukemia cell lines across multiple CAR designs. Furthermore, using Pareto optimization we explored the effect of CAR proportion and NK cell signaling on the differential cytotoxicity of CD33CAR-NK cells to cancer and healthy cells. This model can be extended to predict CAR-NK cytotoxicity across many antigens and tumor targets.
揭示肿瘤细胞对CAR-NK细胞毒性的反应机制并进行预测,对于提高治疗效果至关重要。目前,这些效应细胞与靶细胞相互作用的复杂性以及NK细胞受体(NKR)库中供体间的差异,要求对每种生产的CAR-NK细胞产品和靶细胞组合进行实验性的功能测定。在此,我们开发了一种计算机制多尺度模型,该模型考虑了CAR、NKR、黏附受体及其同源配体的异质表达、信号转导以及NK细胞-靶细胞群体动力学。该模型通过定量流式细胞术和体外细胞毒性数据进行训练,能够准确预测多种CAR设计的CD33CAR-NK细胞对白血病细胞系的短期和长期细胞毒性。此外,我们使用帕累托优化方法探讨了CAR比例和NK细胞信号传导对CD33CAR-NK细胞对癌细胞和健康细胞差异细胞毒性的影响。该模型可以扩展到预测多种抗原和肿瘤靶点的CAR-NK细胞毒性。