In:
Cancer Research, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Vol. 70, No. 15 ( 2010-08-01), p. 6181-6192
Abstract:
Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) is a lymphoproliferative malignancy associated with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection. Recently, it has been shown that allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is an effective treatment for ATL, and that HTLV-1 Tax-specific CD8+ cytotoxic T cells (CTL) contribute to the graft-versus-ATL effect. In the present study, we, for the first time, analyzed the T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire of isolated Tax301–309 (SFHSLHLLF)-specific CTLs in HLA-A*2402+ ATL patients before and after allo-HSCT by single-cell reverse transcription-PCR. The Tax301–309-specific CTLs in bone marrow and peripheral blood showed highly restricted oligoclonal diversity. In addition, a unique conserved amino acid motif of “P-D/P-R” in TCR-β complementarity-determining region 3 in either BV7- or BV18-expressing CTLs was observed not only in all of the samples from ATL patients, but also in samples from the same patient before and after HSCT. Furthermore, the P-D/P-R motif–bearing CTL clones established from peripheral blood samples after HSCT exhibited strong killing activity against the HTLV-1–infected T cells of the patient. CTL clones were not established in vitro from samples prior to allo-HSCT. In addition, CTL clones with a strong killing activity were enriched in vivo after HSCT in the patient. Hence, Tax301–309-specific CTLs in ATL patients might have a preference for TCR construction and induce strong immune responses against the HTLV-1–infected T cells of patients, which contribute to the graft-versus-ATL effects after allo-HSCT. However, further analyses with a larger number of patients and more frequent sampling after allo-HSCT is required to confirm these findings. Cancer Res; 70(15); 6181–92. ©2010 AACR.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0008-5472
,
1538-7445
DOI:
10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-0678
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Publication Date:
2010
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