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  • 1
    In: Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers Media SA, Vol. 5 ( 2014)
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1664-3224
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    Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
    Publication Date: 2014
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    In: Blood, American Society of Hematology, Vol. 110, No. 11 ( 2007-11-16), p. 3274-3274
    Abstract: Haploidentical Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (haplo-HSCT) is a promising therapeutic option for patients lacking a fully compatible donor. Due to extensive T cell depletion, Natural Killer (NK) cell activity represents the only immunological protection against disease relapse for the first months after haplo-HSCT. Clinical studies have associated donor-recipient incompatibility for Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) ligands of Killer Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR), with a marked anti-leukemic activity. Alloreactive donor NK cells carrying a single KIR whose ligand is missing in the recipient mediate a potent graft vs. leukemia effect, resulting in reduced incidence of relapse and increased Overall Survival (OS). These exciting results have recently been challenged by conflicting clinical and biological data from different groups. In the present study, we have characterized reconstitution of NK cells, in particular of alloreactive single-KIR+ NK cells, in 58 patients who received CD34+ selected haplo-HSCT for high-risk hematologic malignancies. One month after haplo-HSCT CD56bright/CD56dim NK cell subsets were subverted in their proportions and phenotypic features, accounting for enrichment in maturation intermediates. We show that CD25 and CD117 deregulation by CD56bright, and NKG2A and CD62L by CD56dim, are intrinsic to NK cell physiologic differentiation and support a sequential CD56bright-to-CD56dim NK cell maturation. Consistently, the in vitro functional potential of these maturation intermediates against leukemic blasts was heavily impaired, both in terms of cytotoxicity and of cytokine release. Full mature receptor repertoire reconstitution took at least three months. Alloreactive single-KIR+ NK cells had highly variable frequency ranging from less than 1% to more than 30% of NK cells circulating at 90–120 days after transplantation, independently from predicted NK alloreactivity. Importantly, out of three patients with predicted NK alloreactivity, none had a relative expansion of alloreactive single-KIR+ cells, accounting for less than 1% of circulating NK cells in two of them. As demonstrated by flow cytometric analysis of NK cell CD107a mobilization in response to the HLA class I negative target 721.221, single-KIR+ NK cells at three months after haplo-HSCT showed a not yet fully developed functional reactivity, which was recovered to donor-levels only at later time-points. In line with these observations, clinical outcome of haplo-HSCT was not affected in any way by the presence of donor NK alloreactivity. The incidence of relapse was virtually identical in patients transplanted from alloreactive or non-alloreactive donors. Taken together, our data shed new light onto the kinetics of NK cell differentiation in vivo and suggest that NK alloreactivity could be best exploited by the use of mature donor single-KIR+ selected alloreactive NK cells.
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    ISSN: 0006-4971 , 1528-0020
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    Publisher: American Society of Hematology
    Publication Date: 2007
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  • 3
    In: Blood, American Society of Hematology, Vol. 108, No. 11 ( 2006-11-16), p. 3223-3223
    Abstract: Alloreactive NK cells have been suggested to be important functional players in GvL activity after haploidentical HSCT for high risk leukemia. In this study we have characterized NK cells differentiating from purified haploidentical CD34+ cells after transplantation into 16 patients who did (n=8) or did not (n=8) suffer acute leukemia relapse in a long term follow-up (median 208 days). The incidence of relapse in these patients was not correlated with the presence (n=9) or absence (n=7) of predicted donor NK alloreactivity (p=0.94). NK cells in the first month after transplantation were, regardless of the occurence of relapse, NKG2A+ ( 〉 95%) and KIR− (13%), thus resembling CD56bright NK cells from healthy donors. However, in contrast to mature CD56bright cells, the patients’ NK cells expressed heterogeneous intensities of CD56, were only partly positive for the lymph node homing markers CD62L and CCR7, and expressed a higher amount of Fcγ receptor III (CD16). Importantly, in contrast to mature CD56bright cells, which constitrutively express the high affinity αβγ IL-2 receptor, thus releasing γ-IFN in response to low dose IL2, the patients’ NK cells lacked IL-R α (CD25) and did not release cytokines in response to low-dose IL2, nor, most importantly, when challenged with leukemic blasts. γ-IFN release induced by leukemic blasts could be restored by inhibition of NKG2A while cytotoxicity, which was consistently lower as compared to that of mature CD56+ cells, could not. Our data suggest that NK cells differentiating in patients from CD34+ progenitors after haploidentical HSCT have important phenotipical and functional differences from both subsets of mature NK cells, accounting for an impaired in vivo GvL potential.
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    ISSN: 0006-4971 , 1528-0020
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    Publication Date: 2006
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    In: Blood, American Society of Hematology, Vol. 104, No. 11 ( 2004-11-16), p. 436-436
    Abstract: Haplo-identical stem cell transplantation (haplo-SCT) is a therapeutic option for pts with high risk hematologic malignancies lacking an HLA matched donor. The full exploitation of haplo-SCT is limited by delayed immune reconstitution and prolonged risk of life-threatening infections. We previously identified in an academic haplo-SCT trial, effective doses of donor lymphocytes genetically engineered to express a suicide gene (the herpes simplex thymidine kinase (TK-DLI) as an effective tool for preventing disease relapse and promoting immune reconstitution. In case of GvHD, TK-DLI could be selectively eliminated by ganciclovir. A phase II multicenter trial (MM TK007), aimed at verifying the therapeutic activity of early add-backs of TK+ cells after haplo-SCT in inducing a stable immune reconstitution, started in 2002. 20 pts were recruited and transplanted for AML (16, 8 of whom post MDS), ALL (2), advanced NHL and HD (2); disease status at SCT was CR1(5), CR2(7), refractory(8). Median time from diagnosis to SCT was 394 d (95-3752), median age was 52 (17–62). A median of 12.3x106/kg (7.3–15.5) CD34+ selected cells (Clinimacs) and 1.05x104/kg (0.8–1.4) CD3+ cells were infused after a myeloablative conditioning regimen. GvHD prophylaxis was never administered post-SCT. 18/20 pts engrafted with a median time of 13 d (8–21), for ANC & gt;1.0x109/l and 13 d (11–24) for plt & gt;50x109/l. No immune reconstitution and no GvHD were observed in absence of TK-DLI. The statistical end-point of the study was to achieve immune reconstitution in 7/18 treated pts. So far, 10 pts received TK-DLI at a median dose of 107/kg with 1st infusion at d +42. Although this study will continue up to 18 treated pts, the primary end-point has been already achieved since 7/9 evaluable pts obtained CD3+ & gt;100/μl at a median time of 76 d (61–99) from SCT and 21 d (14–31) from TK-DLI. Transduced cells were documented ex vivo in all pts; median counts at peak of immune reconstitution were 483 CD3+/μl, 304 CD8+/μl, 130 CD4+/μl. Prompt immune reconstitution resulted in complete control of viral infections and virtually eliminated late infections frequently reported after haplo-SCT. In 1 pt a grade II biopsy-proven acute GvHD, involving skin and liver was observed and completely abrogated by ganciclovir (10 mg/kg/day) in the absence of immunosuppressive drugs. One pt relapsed at d 300; overall, 6 pts are alive in CR at d +423, +363, +317, +255, +109, +104. The preliminary results of this multicenter phase II study confirm that TK-DLI is an effective tool for promoting immune reconstitution and protecting pts from infectious mortality after haplo-SCT while providing an effective and selective treatment for GvHD. The potential of this strategy in preventing disease relapse is promising and will remain the main focus of the long-term follow-up.
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    ISSN: 0006-4971 , 1528-0020
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  • 5
    In: Haematologica, Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica), Vol. 108, No. 6 ( 2022-10-06), p. 1530-1543
    Abstract: After allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), the emergence of circulating cytomegalovirus (CMV)- specific T cells correlates with protection from CMV reactivation, an important risk factor for non-relapse mortality. However, functional assays measuring CMV-specific cells are time-consuming and often inaccurate at early time-points. We report the results of a prospective single-center, non-interventional study that identified the enumeration of Dextramerpositive CMV-specific lymphocytes as a reliable and early predictor of viral reactivation. We longitudinally monitored 75 consecutive patients for 1 year after allogeneic HSCT (n=630 samples). The presence of ≥0.5 CMV-specific CD8+ cells/mL at day +45 was an independent protective factor from subsequent clinically relevant reactivation in univariate (P 〈 0.01) and multivariate (P 〈 0.05) analyses. Dextramer quantification correlated with functional assays measuring interferon-γ production, and allowed earlier identification of high-risk patients. In mismatched transplants, the comparative analysis of lymphocytes restricted by shared, donor- and host-specific HLA revealed the dominant role of thymic-independent CMV-specific reconstitution. Shared and donor-restricted CMV-specific T cells reconstituted with similar kinetics in recipients of CMV-seropositive donors, while donor-restricted T-cell reconstitution from CMV-seronegative grafts was impaired, indicating that in primary immunological responses the emergence of viral-specific T cells is largely sustained by antigen encounter on host infected cells rather than by cross-priming/presentation by non-infected donor-derived antigen-presenting cells. Multiparametric flow cytometry and high-dimensional analysis showed that shared-restricted CMV-specific lymphocytes display a more differentiated phenotype and increased persistence than donor-restricted counterparts. In this study, monitoring CMV-specific cells by Dextramer assay after allogeneic HSCT shed light on mechanisms of immune reconstitution and enabled risk stratification of patients, which could improve the clinical management of post-transplant CMV reactivations.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1592-8721 , 0390-6078
    Language: Unknown
    Publisher: Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica)
    Publication Date: 2022
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    In: Blood Advances, American Society of Hematology, Vol. 7, No. 9 ( 2023-05-09), p. 1621-1634
    Abstract: Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis’s (FQ-P) usefulness in patients with neutropenia is controversial. In recent decades, Italian epidemiological data has shown worrisome rates of FQ resistance. A single-center cohort study on 136 autologous stem cell transplantations (ASCTs) and 223 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (allo-HSCTs) was performed from January 2018 to December 2020. Piperacillin/tazobactam was the first-line therapy for febrile neutropenia (FN). Since February 2019, FQ-P has been omitted. We evaluated the day +30 posttransplant cumulative incidence function (CIF) of gram-negative bacteria pre-engraftment bloodstream infections (PE-BSIs) and any changes in antimicrobial resistance, FN, and infection-related mortality (IRM). In ASCTs, ≥1 FN episode occurred in 74.3% of transplants, without differences among groups (P = .66). CIF of gram-negative bacteria PE-BSI was 10.1%, with a significant difference according to FQ-P (0% [LEVO-group] vs 14.1% [NO-LEVO-group] , P = .016). CIF of IRM was 0% in both groups. In allo-HSCTs, ≥1 FN episode occurred in 96.4% of transplants, without differences among groups (P = .72). CIF of gram-negative bacteria PE-BSI was 28%, significantly higher without FQ-P (14.7% [LEVO-group] vs 34.4% [NO-LEVO-group] , P = .003). CIF of IRM was 5%, superimposable in both groups (P = .62). Comparing antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative bacteria of allo-HSCT setting, in the group without FQ-P, a significantly higher proportion of pathogens was susceptible to piperacillin/tazobactam (71% vs 30%, P = .026), FQ (49% vs 10%, P = .03), and carbapenems (95% vs 50%, P = .001). FQ-P discontinuation increased gram-negative bacteria PE-BSI but did not impact IRM, both in the ASCT and allo-HSCT settings; importantly, it concurred to significantly decrease antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative bacteria.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 2473-9529 , 2473-9537
    Language: English
    Publisher: American Society of Hematology
    Publication Date: 2023
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    In: Blood, American Society of Hematology, Vol. 106, No. 11 ( 2005-11-16), p. 2905-2905
    Abstract: Donor-recipient incompatibility for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) ligands of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) in haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), has been associated with a selective graft versus leukemia (GvL) effect mediated by donor-derived alloreactive natural killer (NK) cells expressing KIRs whose ligands are missing in the recipient. In this study, we show that NK cells arising from hematopoietic stem cell progenitors after transplantation into haploidentical recipients, acquire a receptor repertoire that is compatible with patient-specific tolerance due to engagement of patient HLA ligands by inhibitory NK receptors. Using four-color immunofluorescence with monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for the receptors CD94/NKG2A, KIR2DL1/2DS1, KIR2DL2/2DL3/2DS2 and KIR3DL1, we have analyzed NK receptor reconstitution kinetics in eleven adult patients affected by acute myeloid (n=9) or lymphoblastic (n=2) leukemia, who underwent HSCT from a KIR ligand matched (n=5) or mismatched (n=6) haploidentical family donor, using high doses (median 12.5x106/kg) of purified CD34+ progenitors. Nine patients achieved long-term ( & gt;150 days) complete remission of disease, independently from disease status at time of transplantation, and, importantly, from the presence (n=5) or absence (n=4) of donor NK alloreactivity. Within the first two months after transplantation, the vast majority (96% at 30 days, 86% at 60 days; SD 2% and 11%, respectively) of NK cells arising in the patients expressed the inhibitory receptor CD94/NKG2A, whose ligand HLA-E is ubiquitously expressed by cells positive for classical HLA class I molecules including leukemic blasts. As shown by mAb inhibition studies, lysis of patient-derived phytohemagglutinin-activated T cell blasts by these early arising NK cells was specifically inhibited by engagement of CD94/NKG2A. KIR expression was restored with variable kinetics in the later post-transplantation phase (3–9 months). Interestingly, however, during this period, NK cells devoid of CD94/NKG2A were found to express at least one KIR specific for an HLA ligand present in the patient, suggesting functional silencing of NK cells arising in the later phases after transplantation by acquisition of specific KIRs. Taken together, these data challenge current broad view on putative antileukemic effect of alloreactive NK cells reconstituting from haploidentical donor CD34+ cells and suggest that optimal exploitation of NK alloreactivity for GvL requires the presence of NK cells matured in the context of the donor’s rather than the recipient’s HLA repertoire. Ultimately, these findings provide a rationale for emerging clinical evidence in favor of efficacy of NK-based immunotherapy with mature donor NK cells.
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    ISSN: 0006-4971 , 1528-0020
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    Publisher: American Society of Hematology
    Publication Date: 2005
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    In:  Current Opinion in Hematology Vol. 19, No. 6 ( 2012-11), p. 427-433
    In: Current Opinion in Hematology, Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), Vol. 19, No. 6 ( 2012-11), p. 427-433
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1065-6251
    Language: English
    Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
    Publication Date: 2012
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  • 9
    In: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Elsevier BV, Vol. 22, No. 8 ( 2016-08), p. 1493-1503
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    ISSN: 1083-8791
    Language: English
    Publisher: Elsevier BV
    Publication Date: 2016
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  • 10
    In: Blood, American Society of Hematology, Vol. 134, No. Supplement_1 ( 2019-11-13), p. 876-876
    Abstract: Background: Haploidentical stem cell transplantation (Haplo HSCT) has emerged in the past three decades as an alternative curative option when an HLA match donor is not available. Over time, the use of Haplo has increased dramatically, reaching superimposable results when compared to unrelated and related HSCT strategies, confirming its validity. The widespread use of Haplo mainly relies upon technical advances, control of alloreactivity through graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) prophylaxis combined with a rapid and almost universal probability to find an Haplo donor for any candidate patient. The aim of our study was to provide a picture of acute (aGvHD) and chronic GvHD (cGvHD) incidence in Haplo HSCT across different platform in the past 15 years, where Haplo moved from ex-vivo T-cell depleted (TCD) platform to in-vivo TCD platform to the post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy). Methods: We compared the outcomes of adult patients receiving a 1st Haplo HSCT for any hematological malignancy according to GvHD prophylaxis - ex-vivo + in-vivo TCD (n=160), in-vivo only TCD (n=507) or PTCy (n=2593) - and reported to the EBMT registry in 2004-2016. Patients with missing data on disease status at last follow-up and GvHD information were excluded. Primary endpoint was GvHD-free & Relapse-free survival (GRFS) with events defined by death or relapse or grade ≥3 aGvHD or extensive (ext) cGvHD. Secondary endpoints were progression-free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS), aGvHD and cGvHD, incidence of relapse (IR) and non-relapse-mortality (NRM). Due to sample size in the first cohort of ex-vivo TCD, multivariate analysis compared only in-vivo TCD vs PTCy cohorts. Table 1 illustrates patients' characteristics. Results: Univariate analysis for 3-year outcomes are reported on table 2. PTCy provides better GRFS, OS, PFS, NRM versus ex-vivo or in-vivo. IR was not significantly different. Likewise, the 3-year CI of cGvHD and ext cGvHD were similar between PTCy, in vivo TCD and ex-vivo TCD (cGvHD 27% [25-29%], 25% [21-29%] , 18% [12-25%], p 0.03; ext cGvHD 11% [10-12%] , 10% [8-13%], 8% [4-13%] , p 0.45). On the contrary the 100-day CI of grade ≥2 aGvHD were lower in the ex-vivo TCD vs PTCy and in-vivo TCD (19% [14-26%], 28% [26-30%] , 32% [28-36%], p 0.002) while grade ≥3 aGvHD were lower in the PTCy group vs ex-vivo and in-vivo TCD (9% [8-10%] , 11% [7-17%], 14% [11-18%] , p & lt;0.001). After adjustment for diagnosis, patient age, disease status, Karnofsky PS, donor/patient gender and CMV, cell source, conditioning intensity, previous auto and year of transplant, the multivariable model comparing in-vivo TCD and PTCy showed better outcome for PTCy. Compared to in-vivo TCD, the hazards for GRFS was 0.76 for PTCy (p 0.004), the HR for PFS was 0.71 (p 0.001) and the HR for OS was 0.7 (p 0.0008), the HR for NRM was 0.63 (p 0.001). Moreover, compared to in-vivo TCD, PTCy yielded similar hazards for grade≥2 aGvHD (HR: 1.02, p 0.89), grade≥3 aGvHD (HR 0.79, p 0.27), cGvHD (HR 1.17, p 0.37), ext cGvHD (HR 1.18, p 0.52) and relapse (HR 0.8, p 0.1). Variables associated with GRFS were active disease, Karnofsky PS ≥90%, diagnosis, donor/patient gender and CMV. An ancillary analysis evaluating the stem cell source effect in the PTCy cohort only, demonstrates comparable outcome endpoints (OS, PFS, NRM, IR) at 2-year between bone marrow (BM) and peripheral blood (PB) PTCy. In univariate analysis GRFS and the 2-year CI of cGvHD were not different between BM and PB (GRFS 47% [45-50%], 46% [44-49%] , p 0.085; 2-year CI of cGvHD 25% [23-28%], 27% [25-30%] , p 0.2) while ext cGvHD, 100-day CI of grade ≥2 aGvHD and grade ≥3 aGvHD were lower in BM PTCy vs PB PTCy (ext cGvHD 8% [7-10%] , 12% [10-14%], p & lt;0.001; grade ≥2 aGvHD 20% [18-22%], 36% [33-38%] , p & lt;0.001; grade ≥3 aGvHD 6% [5-7%], 12% [10-14%] , p & lt;0.001). Compared to BM PTCy, the HR for cGvHD was 1.55 for PB PTCy (p 0.001), the HR for ext cGvHD was 2.04 (p 0.0003), the HR for grade ≥2 aGvHD was 1,94 (p & lt;0.0001), the HR for grade ≥3 aGvHD was 2.01 (p 0.0001). Conclusions: In the present EBMT registry study on more than 3000 patients transplanted from an Haplo donor, we report improved outcome (better GRFS - in spite of comparable chronic GvHD - OS and PFS, lower NRM) and widespread use in different diagnosis setting other than acute leukemia in PTCy platform. PTCy strategy provides a concrete progress into the field: even if cGvHD still represent a major issue, exploitation of BM PTCy seems to protect against most severe GvHD manifestation. Disclosures Mohty: Jazz Pharmaceuticals: Honoraria, Research Funding. Kröger:Sanofi-Aventis: Honoraria; Riemser: Research Funding; Novartis: Honoraria, Research Funding; Neovii: Honoraria, Research Funding; Medac: Honoraria; JAZZ: Honoraria; DKMS: Research Funding; Celgene: Honoraria, Research Funding. Basak:Celgene: Honoraria; Teva: Honoraria.
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