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P74. A Good Manufacturing Practice procedure to generate therapeutic numbers of highly pure anti-leukaemic virus-specific T-cells
  1. MM van Loenen1,
  2. R de Boer1,
  3. E van Liempt1,
  4. RS Hagedoorn1,
  5. P Meij2,
  6. I Jedema1,
  7. JHF Falkenburg1 and
  8. MHM Heemskerk1
  1. Aff1 grid.10419.3d0000000089452978HematologyLeiden University Medical Center Leiden the Netherlands
  2. Aff2 grid.10419.3d0000000089452978Clinical Pharmacy and ToxicologyLeiden University Medical Center Leiden the Netherlands

https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-2-S2-P48

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    Meeting abstracts

    Background

    Recently, we have started a clinical trial to treat patients with high risk acute leukaemia with a donor-derived HA-1-TCR transduced virus-specific T-cell product as early as 8 weeks and 14 weeks after allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT). Donor derived Cytomegalovirus (CMV)- and Epstein Bar virus (EBV)-specific T-cells will be isolated using Streptamer based CliniMACS selection, and will be subsequently transduced at day 2 with the well-characterized anti-leukaemic HA-1-TCR and infused 10-12 days later. Based on these well-defined specificities this T-cell product is predicted to result in a selective Graft versus Leukaemia (GvL) effect without Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD). Important study parameters are persistence of the T-cell product, feasibility of generation of HA-1-TCR transduced virus-specific T-cells, and the number of events of acute GvHD.

    Material and methods

    To obtain therapeutic cell numbers, one of the inclusion criteria is presence in donor peripheral blood of 1 or 2 virus-specific T-cell population with a frequency of ≥0.05% of T-cells. MHC-Streptamers will be used to isolate 1 or 2 virus-specific T-cell populations from donor leukocytes. MHC-Streptamer incubation will result in binding of the TCR of the virus-specific T-cells of interest to the specific peptide presented by the MHC molecule on the Streptamers. Next to allowing selection of T-cells of interest, this binding will also result in specific stimulation allowing subsequent transduction with the HA-1-TCR. The process of isolation of pure populations of virus-specific T-cells and transduction with good manufacturing practice (GMP)-grade retroviral supernatant encoding the HA-1-TCR has been validated with 4 large scale test procedures in the cleanroom. To pass the in process (IP) testing, T-cells needed to be ≥50% pure for the respective virus-specific tetramer directly after Streptamer isolation. In addition, after transduction and subsequent culturing T-cells need to be ≥60% antigen-specific, as measured with virus- and HA-1-tetramers. Moreover, transduction efficiency of ≥5% as measured with HA-1-tetramers is a prerequisite.

    Results

    All HA-1-TCR td virus-specific T-cell products met the criteria for IP testing and quality control testing. They contained >90% antigen-specific T-cells and >10% HA-1 tetramer positive T-cells. Moreover, all HA-1-TCR td virus-specific T-cell products were highly reactive against HA-1-positive leukaemic cells.

    Conclusions

    Here, we present a GMP-grade procedure to generate in a short culture period of less than 2 weeks therapeutically relevant numbers of defined antigen-specific and highly anti-leukaemia reactive T-cells.