Does lineage plasticity enable escape from CAR-T cell therapy? Lessons from MLL-r leukemia.
Exp Hematol
; 100: 1-11, 2021 08.
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| ID: mdl-34298117
ABSTRACT
The clinical success of engineered, CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in relapsed, refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) has generated great enthusiasm for the use of CAR T cells in patients with cytogenetics that portend a poor prognosis with conventional cytotoxic therapies. One such group includes infants and children with mixed lineage leukemia (MLL1, KMT2A) rearrangements (MLL-r), who fare much worse than patients with low- or standard-risk B-ALL. Although early clinical trials using CD19 CAR T cells for MLL-r B-ALL produced complete remission in most patients, relapse with CD19-negative disease was a common mechanism of treatment failure. Whereas CD19neg relapse has been observed across a broad spectrum of B-ALL patients treated with CD19-directed therapy, patients with MLL-r have manifested the emergence of AML, often clonally related to the B-ALL, suggesting that the inherent heterogeneity or lineage plasticity of MLL-r B-ALL may predispose patients to a myeloid relapse. Understanding the factors that enable and drive myeloid relapse may be important to devise strategies to improve durability of remissions. In this review, we summarize clinical observations to date with MLL-r B-ALL and generally discuss lineage plasticity as a mechanism of escape from immunotherapy.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Leucemia-Linfoma Linfoblástico de Células Precursoras B
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Imunoterapia Adotiva
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Histona-Lisina N-Metiltransferase
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Proteína de Leucina Linfoide-Mieloide
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Exp Hematol
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Colômbia