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Dual T Cell Receptor Expressing CD8⁺ T Cells with Tumor- and Self-Specificity Can Inhibit Tumor Growth without Causing Severe Autoimmunity¹

Monika Weinhold^*,, Daniel Sommermeyer, Wolfgang Uckert^, and Thomas Blankenstein^2,*,

^* Institute of Immunology, Charité, Hindenburgdamm 30, Berlin, Germany; Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany; and Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

The engineering of Ag-specific T cells by expression of TCR genes is a convenient method for adoptive T cell immunotherapy. A potential problem is the TCR gene transfer into self-reactive T cells that survived tolerance mechanisms. We have developed an experimental system with T cells that express two TCRs with defined Ag-specificities, one recognizing a tumor-specific Ag (LCMV-gp₃₃), the other recognizing a self-Ag in the pancreas (OVA). By using tumor cells expressing high and low amounts of Ag and mice expressing high and low levels of self-Ag in the pancreas (RIP-OVA-Hi and RIP-OVA-Lo), we show that 1) tumor rejection requires high amount of tumor Ag, 2) severe autoimmunity requires high amount of self-Ag, and 3) if Ag expression on tumor cells is sufficient and low in the pancreas, successful adoptive T cell therapy can be obtained in the absence of severe autoimmunity. These results are shown with T cells from dual TCR transgenic mice or T cells that were redirected by TCR gene transfer. Our data demonstrate that the approach of adoptively transferring TCR redirected T cells can be effective without severe side effects, even when high numbers of T cells with self-reactivity were transferred.

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¹ This study was supported by grants from the Sixth Framework Programme (ATTACK 18914) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Sonderforschungsbereich TR36).

² Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Thomas Blankenstein, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Robert-Rössle Str. 10, Berlin, Germany. E-mail address: tblanke{at}mdc-berlin.de

³ Abbreviations used in this paper: Stg, single TCR transgenic; Dtg, dual TCR transgenic; BG, blood glucose; LCMV, Lymphocyte choriomeningitis virus; T_E, effector T cells.