Pinpointing the tumor-specific T-cells via TCR clusters

  1. Mikhail M Goncharov
  2. Ekaterina A Bryushkova
  3. Nikita I Sharaev
  4. Valeria D Skatova
  5. Anastasiya M Baryshnikova
  6. George V Sharonov
  7. Vadim Karnaukhov
  8. Maria T Vakhitova
  9. Igor V Samoylenko
  10. Lev V Demidov
  11. Sergey Lukyanov
  12. Dmitriy M Chudakov  Is a corresponding author
  13. Ekaterina O Serebrovskaya
  1. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russian Federation
  2. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Russian Federation
  3. Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Federation
  4. NN Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Russian Federation

Abstract

Adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) is a promising approach to cancer immunotherapy, but its efficiency fundamentally depends on the extent of tumor-specific T-cell enrichment within the graft. This can be estimated via activation with identifiable neoantigens, tumor-associated antigens (TAAs), or living or lyzed tumor cells, but these approaches remain laborious, time-consuming, and functionally limited, hampering clinical development of ACT. Here, we demonstrate that homology cluster analysis of T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires efficiently identifies tumor-reactive TCRs allowing to: 1) detect their presence within the pool of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs); 2) optimize TIL culturing conditions, with IL-2low/IL-21/anti-PD-1 combination showing increased efficiency; 3) investigate surface marker-based enrichment for tumor-targeting T cells in freshly-isolated TILs (enrichment confirmed for CD4+ and CD8+ PD-1+/CD39+ subsets), or re-stimulated TILs (informs on enrichment in 4-1BB-sorted cells). We believe that this approach to the rapid assessment of tumor-specific TCR enrichment should accelerate T cell therapy development.

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TCR repertoires have been deposited on:https://figshare.com/projects/Pinpointing_the_tumor-specific_T-cells_via_TCR_clusters/125284

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  1. Mikhail M Goncharov

    Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  2. Ekaterina A Bryushkova

    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  3. Nikita I Sharaev

    Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  4. Valeria D Skatova

    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  5. Anastasiya M Baryshnikova

    Genomics of Adaptive Immunity Department, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  6. George V Sharonov

    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  7. Vadim Karnaukhov

    Center of Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  8. Maria T Vakhitova

    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  9. Igor V Samoylenko

    Oncodermatology Department, NN Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  10. Lev V Demidov

    Oncodermatology Department, NN Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  11. Sergey Lukyanov

    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  12. Dmitriy M Chudakov

    Department of genomics of adaptive immunity, Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    chudakovdm@gmail.com
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  13. Ekaterina O Serebrovskaya

    Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Funding

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (075-15-2020-807)

  • Dmitriy M Chudakov

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Human subjects: All clinical samples were acquired from the N.N. Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology in accordance with protocol MoleMed-0921, approved by the ethical committee on 30 Jan 2020. All patients involved in the study were diagnosed with metastatic melanoma and signed an informed consent prior to collection of their biomaterial.

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© 2022, Goncharov et al.

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  1. Mikhail M Goncharov
  2. Ekaterina A Bryushkova
  3. Nikita I Sharaev
  4. Valeria D Skatova
  5. Anastasiya M Baryshnikova
  6. George V Sharonov
  7. Vadim Karnaukhov
  8. Maria T Vakhitova
  9. Igor V Samoylenko
  10. Lev V Demidov
  11. Sergey Lukyanov
  12. Dmitriy M Chudakov
  13. Ekaterina O Serebrovskaya
(2022)
Pinpointing the tumor-specific T-cells via TCR clusters
eLife 11:e77274.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77274

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