| Literature DB >> 35757302 |
Jane Robertson1, Max Salm1, Markus Dangl1.
Abstract
Immune checkpoint blockade has significantly improved clinical outcomes for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and other solid tumours, but many patients do not respond and acquired resistance is common. Aspects of the tumour microenvironment linked to clinical outcomes include the proportion of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), tumour programmed death ligand 1 ( PD-L1) score and tumour mutation burden. Adoptive cell therapy (ACT), a technique that works by infusing ex vivo expanded T lymphocytes to increase the effector cell pool in tumours, is anticipated to become a viable therapeutic option for patients with solid tumours, akin to chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy in haematological malignancies. TIL therapy has shown durable clinical responses in heavily pre-treated patients with melanoma and other solid tumours. We review the experience of ACT with TILs and the recent evidence that clonal neoantigens might be the most relevant immunotherapeutic targets in heterogeneous solid tumours such as NSCLC. Clonal (or truncal) neoantigens arise from the earliest mutagenic events in tumour evolution, and are retained over time in all tumour cells within a patient, making them the ideal target for T cell therapy. NSCLC has one of the highest clonal mutation burdens of all cancers through exposure to carcinogens in tobacco smoke, providing a strong rationale to develop clonal neoantigen reactive T cells (cNeT) for this indication. The first treatment modality to test this concept clinically is ATL001, a cNeT product that is derived from autologous TILs and enriched for T cells specifically recognizing clonal neoantigenic epitopes by selective expansion. Clinical studies of ATL001 will commence in 2019.Entities:
Keywords: Adoptive cell therapy; Clonal neoantigens; Non-small cell lung cancer
Year: 2019 PMID: 35757302 PMCID: PMC9216247 DOI: 10.1016/j.iotech.2019.09.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Immunooncol Technol ISSN: 2590-0188
Clinical results with combinations of programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors and platinum-based chemotherapy regimens as first-line therapy for metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
| Clinical study | Investigational agent and subgroup | Progression-free survival | Response rate | Median overall survival | Reference | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KEYNOTE-189 ( | Pembrolizumab | Active | Control | Active | Control | Active | Control | |
| 8.8 months | 4.9 months | 48% | 19% | NR | 11.3 months | [ | ||
| KEYNOTE-407 ( | Pembrolizumab | 6.4 months | 4.8 months | 57% | 36% | 15.9 months | 11.3 months | [ |
| Impower150 (Arm B versus C; | Atezolizumab | 8.4 months | 6.8 months | 56% | 40% | 19.2 months | 14.7 months | [ |
| Impower 131 (Arm B versus C; | Atezolizumab | 6.3 months | 5.6 months | 49% | 41% | 14 months | 13.9 months | [ |
Figure 1Correlation between tumour mutational burden and tumour immune infiltrate in 20 tumour types. For each tumour type (or subtype), the median number of coding somatic mutations per megabase (MB) of DNA and the corresponding median leukocyte fraction were plotted. Data on the x axis are shown on a logarithmic scale. Each circle is shaded to reflect the median proportion of clonal mutations for that tumour type. In general, leukocyte infiltration correlates with tumour mutation burden. NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; TNBC, triple negative breast cancer; HNC, head and neck cancer; MSI-hi CRC, microsatellite instability-high colorectal cancer; CRC, colorectal cancer; RCC, renal cell carcinoma. Sources: Thorsson et al. (Immunity 2018; 48:812–830), Charoentong et al (Cell reports 2017; 18:248–262) and Cortes-Ciriano et al [73], [74] (Nature communications 2017; 8:15180)
Figure 2The VELOS™ manufacturing process for ATL001.