Abstract
Cancer immunotherapy has been developed and established as a new treatment modality. Recently, adoptive transfer therapy using T cells redirected with antigen-specific antitumor receptors, such as T-cell receptor (TCR) and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), has demonstrated clinical benefits even in patients with refractory malignancies. To advance this treatment modality, both generation of gene-modified T cells and evaluation of their reactivity with high quality in vitro are required. To achieve this, it is important to establish the ways (1) to generate optimal viral particle for T-cell transduction, (2) to transduce antitumor receptors into T cells and expand redirected T cells efficiently, and (3) to assess the functionality of antigen-specific gene-modified T cells precisely. Here, we summarize established protocols to generate and analyze antitumor receptor-transduced T cells. These procedures help to further assess characteristics of gene-modified T cells, resulting in promotion of translational research for cancer immunotherapy.
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This work was supported by Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up of JSPS (to T.O.) and Research Scholarship of The Uehara Memorial Foundation (to T.O.). Plat-A cell line is kindly provided by Dr. Toshio Kitamura, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo. Jurkat 76 cell line is a generous gift from Dr. Mirjam Heemskerk, Leiden University Medical Center. We thank Drs. Hiroshi Fujiwara and Masaki Yasukawa for helpful discussions.
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Ochi, T., Maruta, M., Hirano, N. (2019). Gene Modification and Immunological Analyses for the Development of Immunotherapy Utilizing T Cells Redirected with Antigen-Specific Receptors. In: Kaneko, S. (eds) In Vitro Differentiation of T-Cells. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2048. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9728-2_3
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