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Marconato L, Aresu L, Stefanello D, Comazzi S, Martini V, Ferrari R, Riondato F, Rouquet N, Frayssinet P, Sabattini S. Opportunities and challenges of active immunotherapy in dogs with B-cell lymphoma: a 5-year experience in two veterinary oncology centers. J Immunother Cancer 2019; 7:146. [PMID: 31174615 PMCID: PMC6554898 DOI: 10.1186/s40425-019-0624-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2019] [Accepted: 05/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Pet dogs spontaneously develop lymphoma. An anthracycline-based multidrug chemotherapy regimen represents the treatment cornerstone; however, cure is rarely achieved. We have been treating dogs with B-cell lymphoma with an autologous vaccine (APAVAC®) and CHOP-based chemotherapy since 2011. METHODS To better characterize the safety and efficacy of APAVAC®, and to find the best candidates for immunotherapy, we designed a retrospective study on all dogs treated with chemo-immunotherapy to date and compared them with those dogs treated with chemotherapy only. All dogs were completely staged and re-staged at the end of treatment. The primary endpoint was the effectiveness of chemo-immunotherapy, measured as time to progression (TTP), lymphoma-specific survival (LSS), and 1-, 2-, and 3-year survival rates. The secondary objective was safety. RESULTS Three hundred dogs were included: 148 (49.3%) received chemotherapy and 152 (50.7%) chemo-immunotherapy. Overall, the latter survived significantly longer (median LSS, 401 vs 220; P < 0.001). Among dogs with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, the 1-, 2- and 3-year survival rates were 20, 13 and 8% for chemotherapy, and 51, 19 and 10% for chemo-immunotherapy. The benefit of chemo-immunotherapy was particularly relevant in dogs with concurrent high serum LDH, stage V, substage a disease and not previously treated with steroids (median LSS, 480 vs 85 days; P < 0.001). Among dogs with nodal marginal zone lymphoma, those having at least 3 of the aforementioned characteristics significantly benefited from chemo-immunotherapy (median LSS, 680 vs 160 days, P < 0.001). The 1-, 2- and 3-year survival rates were 30, 16 and 10% for chemotherapy, and 55, 28 and 10% for chemo-immunotherapy. Among dogs with follicular lymphoma, lack of immunotherapy administration was the only variable significantly associated with increased risk of tumor-related death. Chemo-immunotherapy was remarkably well tolerated, with no local or systemic adverse events. CONCLUSIONS Overall, the addition of immunotherapy to a traditional CHOP protocol is associated with improved outcome in dogs with B-cell lymphoma, regardless of histotype and evaluated prognostic factors. Moreover, the identikit of the best candidate for immune-therapy was delineated for the most common histotypes. The study also confirms the excellent tolerability of the vaccine.
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- Laura Marconato
- Centro Oncologico Veterinario, Sasso Marconi, via San Lorenzo ¼, 40037 Sasso Marconi, Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Veterinary Science, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Science, University of Turin, Grugliasco, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Ossendorf V, Cornely O, Draube A, Monsef I, Engert A, Skoetz N. Idiotype vaccination for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Hippokratia 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd008964.pub2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Vera Ossendorf
- Medical Division; Clinical Trials Center Cologne; Herderstrasse 52 Cologne Germany 50931
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- University Hospital of Cologne; Department of Internal Medicine 1, Center of Integrated Oncology Köln Bonn; Kerpener Str. 62 Cologne Germany 50924
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- University Hospital of Cologne; Department of Internal Medicine 1, Center of Integrated Oncology Köln Bonn; Kerpener Str. 62 Cologne Germany 50924
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- University Hospital of Cologne; Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group, Department I of Internal Medicine; Kerpener Str. 62 Cologne Germany 50924
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- University Hospital of Cologne; Department I of Internal Medicine; Kerpener Str. 62 Cologne Germany 50924
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- University Hospital of Cologne; Cochrane Haematological Malignancies Group, Department I of Internal Medicine; Kerpener Str. 62 Cologne Germany 50924
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Kieber-Emmons T, Monzavi-Karbassi B, Pashov A, Saha S, Murali R, Kohler H. The promise of the anti-idiotype concept. Front Oncol 2012; 2:196. [PMID: 23267437 PMCID: PMC3526099 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2012] [Accepted: 12/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A basic tenet of antibody-based immunity is their specificity to antigenic determinates from foreign pathogen products to abnormal cellular components such as in cancer. However, an antibody has the potential to bind to more than one determinate, be it an antigen or another antibody. These observations led to the idiotype network theory (INT) to explain immune regulation, which has wax and waned in enthusiasm over the years. A truer measure of the impact of the INT is in terms of the ideas that now form the mainstay of immunological research and whose roots are spawned from the promise of the anti-idiotype concept. Among the applications of the INT is understanding the structural implications of the antibody-mediated network that has the potential for innovation in terms of rational design of reagents with biological, chemical, and pharmaceutical applications that underlies concepts of reverse immunology which is highlighted herein.
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- Thomas Kieber-Emmons
- Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Little Rock, AR, USA
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After several decades of research, recent successful phase III controlled clinical trials have renewed enthusiasm for vaccine treatment of cancer. This perspective on the report by Berta and colleagues in this issue of the journal (beginning on page 994) discusses the potential prevention of oral cancer through vaccine strategies and, in the broader context, ideal characteristics of tumor antigens as candidates for vaccines for both treating and preventing cancer, potential primary and secondary prevention settings for vaccines, desirable types of immune effectors induced by vaccines, and safety.
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- Larry W Kwak
- Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Unit 429, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Weng J, Cha SC, Matsueda S, Alatrash G, Popescu MS, Yi Q, Molldrem JJ, Wang M, Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. Targeting human B-cell malignancies through Ig light chain-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Clin Cancer Res 2011; 17:5945-52. [PMID: 21813633 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-11-0970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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PURPOSE The variable regions of Ig (idiotype, Id) expressed by malignant B cells can be used as tumor-specific antigens that induce humoral and cellular immunity. However, epitopes derived from Id that stimulate human CD8(+) T-cell immunity are incompletely characterized. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The clonal Ig V(L) of human myeloma cell line U266 and five primary B-cell tumors were sequenced, and peptides corresponding to the Ig V(L) region were tested for their ability to stimulate CTLs from 10 HLA-A*0201-positive normal donors. The CTLs thus generated were tested against peptide-pulsed T2 cells and autologous tumor cells. RESULTS Fourteen peptides derived from Ig light chain (V(L)) of U266 and primary B-cell tumors were used to generate 68 CTLs lines that specifically produced IFN-γ when cocultured with peptide-pulsed T2 cells. These CTLs lysed peptide-pulsed T2 cell as well as U266 or autologous tumor targets in an HLA class I-dependent manner. Sequence analysis revealed shared V(L) T-cell epitopes in U266 and primary B-cell tumors, not previously reported within Ig heavy chain (V(H)) sequences. CONCLUSION This study thus identifies novel immunogenic CTLs epitopes from Id V(L), suggests that they are naturally presented on the surface of B-cell malignancies, and supports their inclusion in next-generation Id vaccines. The ability to prime T cells derived from normal HLA-matched donors, rather than patients, may also have direct application to current strategies, designed to generate allogeneic tumor-specific T cells for adoptive transfer.
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- Jinsheng Weng
- Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, and Center for Cancer Immunology Research, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Humoral immune response to keyhole limpet haemocyanin, the protein carrier in cancer vaccines. Clin Dev Immunol 2011; 2011:614383. [PMID: 21716728 PMCID: PMC3119425 DOI: 10.1155/2011/614383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2011] [Revised: 03/16/2011] [Accepted: 03/30/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH) appears to be a promising protein carrier for tumor antigens in numerous cancer vaccine candidates. The humoral immune response to KLH was characterized at the single-cell level with ELISPOT combined with separations of cell populations according to their expression of homing receptors (HRs). The analysis of HR expressions is expected to reveal the targeting of the immune response in the body. Eight orally primed and four nonprimed volunteers received KLH-vaccine subcutaneously. Circulating KLH-specific plasmablasts were found in all volunteers, 60 KLH-specific plasmablasts/106 PBMC in the nonprimed and 136/106 in the primed group. The proportion of L-selectin+ plasmablasts proved high and integrin α4β7+ low. KLH serving as protein carrier in several vaccines, the homing profile of KLH-specific response may be applicable to the cancer antigen parts in the same vaccines. The present data reflect a systemic homing profile, which appears advantageous for the targeting of immune response to cancer vaccines.
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Tumor microenvironment and immune effects of antineoplastic therapy in lymphoproliferative syndromes. J Biomed Biotechnol 2010; 2010. [PMID: 20814546 PMCID: PMC2931385 DOI: 10.1155/2010/846872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2009] [Revised: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 06/21/2010] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Lymphomas represent a wide group of heterogenic diseases with different biological and clinical behavior. The underlying microenvironment-specific composition seems to play an essential role in this scenario, harboring the ability to develop successful immune responses or, on the contrary, leading to immune evasion and even promotion of tumor growth. Depending on surrounding lymphoid infiltrates, lymphomas may have different prognosis. Moreover, recent evidences have emerged that confer a significant impact of main lymphoma's treatment over microenvironment, with clinical consequences. In this review, we summarize these concepts from a pathological and clinical perspective. Also, the state of the art of lymphoma's anti-idiotype vaccine development is revised, highlighting the situations where this strategy has proven to be successful and eventual clues to obtain better results in the future.
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Genetic immunization with CDR3-based fusion vaccine confers protection and long-term tumor-free survival in a mouse model of lymphoma. J Biomed Biotechnol 2010; 2010:316069. [PMID: 20445751 PMCID: PMC2860581 DOI: 10.1155/2010/316069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2009] [Accepted: 02/04/2010] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Therapeutic vaccination against idiotype is a promising strategy for immunotherapy of B-cell malignancies. We have previously shown that CDR3-based DNA immunization can induce immune response against lymphoma and explored this strategy to provide protection in a murine B-cell lymphoma model. Here we performed vaccination employing as immunogen a naked DNA fusion product. The DNA vaccine was generated following fusion of a sequence derived from tetanus toxin fragment C to the VHCDR3109−116 epitope. Induction of tumor-specific immunity as well as ability to inhibit growth of the aggressive 38C13 lymphoma and to prolong survival of vaccinated mice has been tested. We determined that DNA fusion vaccine induced immune response, elicited a strong protective antitumor immunity, and ensured almost complete long-term tumor-free survival of vaccinated mice.
Our results show that CDR3-based DNA fusion vaccines hold promise for vaccination against lymphoma.
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Speiser DE, Romero P. Molecularly defined vaccines for cancer immunotherapy, and protective T cell immunity. Semin Immunol 2010; 22:144-54. [PMID: 20413326 DOI: 10.1016/j.smim.2010.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2010] [Accepted: 03/15/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Malignant cells are frequently recognized and destroyed by T cells, hence the development of T cell vaccines against established tumors. The challenge is to induce protective type 1 immune responses, with efficient Th1 and CTL activation, and long-term immunological memory. These goals are similar as in many infectious diseases, where successful immune protection is ideally induced with live vaccines. However, large-scale development of live vaccines is prevented by their very limited availability and vector immunogenicity. Synthetic vaccines have multiple advantages. Each of their components (antigens, adjuvants, delivery systems) contributes specifically to induction and maintenance of T cell responses. Here we summarize current experience with vaccines based on proteins and peptide antigens, and discuss approaches for the molecular characterization of clonotypic T cell responses. With carefully designed step-by-step modifications of innovative vaccine formulations, T cell vaccination can be optimized towards the goal of inducing therapeutic immune responses in humans.
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- Daniel E Speiser
- Clinical Investigation Center, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd., Lausanne branch, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Grille S, Brugnini A, Nese M, Corley E, Falkenberg FW, Lens D, Chabalgoity JA. A B-cell lymphoma vaccine using a depot formulation of interleukin-2 induces potent antitumor immunity despite increased numbers of intratumoral regulatory T cells. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2010; 59:519-27. [PMID: 19768458 PMCID: PMC11029911 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-009-0768-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2008] [Accepted: 09/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Therapeutic vaccination holds great potential as complementary treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Here, we report that a therapeutic whole cell vaccine formulated with IL-2 adsorbed onto aluminum hydroxide as cytokine-depot formulation elicits potent antitumor immunity and induces delayed tumor growth, control of tumor dissemination and longer survival in mice challenged with A20-lymphoma. Therapeutic vaccination induced higher numbers of tumor's infiltrating lymphocytes (CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells and NK cells), and the production of IFN-gamma and IL-4 by intratumoral CD4(+) T cells. Further, strong tumor antigen-specific cellular responses were detected at systemic level. Both the A20-derived antigenic material and the IL-2 depot formulation were required for induction of an effective immune response that impacted on cancer progression. All mice receiving any form of IL-2, either as part of the vaccine or alone as control, showed higher numbers of CD4(+)CD25(+/high)Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (Treg) in the tumor, which might have a role in tumor progression in these animals. Nevertheless, for those animals that received the cytokine as part of the vaccine formulation, the overall effect was improved immune response and less disseminated disease, suggesting that therapeutic vaccination overcomes the potential detrimental effect of intratumoral Treg cells. Overall, the results presented here show that a simple vaccine formulation, that can be easily prepared under GMP conditions, is a promising strategy to be used in B-cell lymphoma and may have enough merit to be tested in clinical trials.
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- Sofía Grille
- Departamento Básico de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Laboratory for Vaccine Research, Department of Biotechnology, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento Básico de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Laboratory for Vaccine Research, Department of Biotechnology, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Cátedra de Hematología, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital de Clínicas, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Departamento Básico de Medicina, Facultad de Medicina, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Laboratory for Vaccine Research, Department of Biotechnology, Facultad de Medicina, Instituto de Higiene, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
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Zhang T, Herlyn D. Combination of active specific immunotherapy or adoptive antibody or lymphocyte immunotherapy with chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2008; 58:475-92. [PMID: 18925393 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-008-0598-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2008] [Accepted: 09/17/2008] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Successful treatment of cancer patients with a combination of monoclonal antibodies (mAb) and chemotherapeutic drugs has spawned various other forms of additional combination therapies, including vaccines or adoptive lymphocyte transfer combined with chemotherapeutics. These therapies were effective against established tumors in animal models and showed promising results in initial clinical trials in cancer patients, awaiting testing in larger randomized controlled studies. Although combination between immunotherapy and chemotherapy has long been viewed as incompatible as chemotherapy, especially in high doses meant to increase anti-tumor efficacy, has induced immunosuppression, various mechanisms may explain the reported synergistic effects of the two types of therapies. Thus direct effects of chemotherapy on tumor or host environment, such as induction of tumor cell death, elimination of regulatory T cells, and/or enhancement of tumor cell sensitivity to lysis by CTL may account for enhancement of immunotherapy by chemotherapy. Furthermore, induction of lymphopenia by chemotherapy has increased the efficacy of adoptive lymphocyte transfer in cancer patients. On the other hand, immunotherapy may directly modulate the tumor's sensitivity to chemotherapy. Thus, anti-tumor mAb can increase the sensitivity of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic drugs and patients treated first with immunotherapy followed by chemotherapy showed higher clinical response rates than patients that had received chemotherapy alone. In conclusion, combination of active specific immunotherapy or adoptive mAb or lymphocyte immunotherapy with chemotherapy has great potential for the treatment of cancer patients which needs to be confirmed in larger controlled and randomized Phase III trials.
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- Tianqian Zhang
- The Wistar Institute, 3601 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Thomas X. New emerging applications of molgramostim in acute myeloid leukaemia. Expert Opin Drug Metab Toxicol 2008; 4:795-806. [DOI: 10.1517/17425255.4.6.795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Anti-tumor immunity induced by CDR3-based DNA vaccination in a murine B-cell lymphoma model. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2008; 370:279-84. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.03.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2008] [Accepted: 03/17/2008] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Park HJ, Neelapu SS. Developing idiotype vaccines for lymphoma: from preclinical studies to phase III clinical trials. Br J Haematol 2008; 142:179-91. [PMID: 18422783 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07143.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Therapeutic vaccines for B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) using the clonal tumour immunoglobulin idiotype (Id) have been under development for more than three decades. A major obstacle for rapid progress in the field has been that the Id vaccine is patient-specific and required the generation of a custom-made product. The manufacturing issues were recently overcome by advances in hybridoma and recombinant DNA technology which facilitated the completion of several phase I and II clinical trials. The strong immunogenicity and apparent clinical benefit observed on the early phase studies led to the initiation of three randomized phase III clinical trials that are also nearing completion. This review will focus on the development of Id vaccines before and after the introduction of rituximab for the treatment of B-cell NHL and also discuss potential strategies to enhance the efficacy of active immunotherapy in the future.
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- Hyun Jun Park
- Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Neeson P, Pan ZK, Paterson Y. Listeriolysin O is an improved protein carrier for lymphoma immunoglobulin idiotype and provides systemic protection against 38C13 lymphoma. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2008; 57:493-505. [PMID: 17876582 PMCID: PMC11030947 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-007-0388-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2007] [Accepted: 08/08/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Follicular lymphoma (FL) is a disease that responds to current treatment regimens; however, patients in general relapse with increasingly refractory disease. Idiotype-based vaccines are currently under trial for the treatment of FL. These vaccines comprise the patient's BCR idiotype (Id) as the tumor antigen conjugated to the protein carrier Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH); however, other protein carriers may enhance the immune response to the lymphoma Id. In this study we investigated whether an alternate carrier, Listeriolysin O (LLO), would amplify the immune response to Id protein and provide better protection against challenge by 38C13 murine lymphoma. The Id-LLO vaccine compared favorably against Id-KLH in tumor-protection studies and both vaccines provided systemic immunity against 38C13 lymphoma. However, the immune response to the two conjugates was different in that Id-LLO induced a more powerful Th1 response characterized by high titer IgG2a anti-Id antibodies after one immunization and the presence of CD4 cells secreting IFN-gamma. In vivo studies demonstrated that immune serum contributed to the anti-lymphoma efficacy seen following Id-LLO immunization. Interestingly, Id-LLO immunized mice, when challenged twice with 38C13 lymphoma provided better protection against challenge by the BCR loss variant 38C13-V2, suggesting that Id-LLO immunized mice have more potential to develop epitope spreading than Id-KLH. In conclusion, Id-LLO compared favorably against Id-KLH in its anti-lymphoma efficacy. Furthermore, Id-LLO induced a more potent humoral and cell-mediated immune response and promoted epitope spreading after lymphoma challenge. Thus, anti-Id vaccines incorporating LLO may be a better therapeutic option for treatment of B-cell lymphoma.
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- Paul Neeson
- Microbiology Department, University of Pennsylvania, 323 Johnson Building, 3610 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
- Present Address: Cancer Immunology Program, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute, Melbourne, Australia
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- Microbiology Department, University of Pennsylvania, 323 Johnson Building, 3610 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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- Microbiology Department, University of Pennsylvania, 323 Johnson Building, 3610 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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Neelapu SS, Kwak LW. Vaccine therapy for B-cell lymphomas: next-generation strategies. HEMATOLOGY. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY. EDUCATION PROGRAM 2007; 2007:243-249. [PMID: 18024636 DOI: 10.1182/asheducation-2007.1.243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Active immunotherapy is a promising approach for the treatment of lymphomas. Immunization with the clonal tumor immunoglobulin, idiotype, expressed on the surface of B-cell malignancies was associated with induction of tumor-specific cellular and humoral immunity, molecular remissions, and prolonged disease-free survival in early clinical trials. Idiotype vaccination was also demonstrated to induce tumor-specific T-cell immunity in the absence of B cells following treatment with rituximab-containing chemotherapy, suggesting that vaccines may be used in combination with rituximab. Three double-blind randomized phase 3 idiotype vaccine trials are currently ongoing to definitively determine the clinical benefit of idiotype vaccination in patients with lymphoma. Novel second-generation lymphoma vaccines are in development to streamline the production of patient-specific cancer vaccines and show encouraging results in preclinical and pilot clinical studies. To enhance the clinical efficacy of active immunotherapy, future clinical trials are likely to use a combination strategy with the lymphoma vaccine to stimulate an antitumor T-cell response and the simultaneous suppression of immune regulatory pathways to augment the induced T-cell response.
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- Sattva S Neelapu
- Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 429, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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