Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium

Improvements to T cell culture systems that promote long-term engraftment and function of adoptively transferred T cells will likely result in superior clinical benefit to more individuals. To this end, we recently developed a chemically defined cell culture medium that robustly expands all T cell s...

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Main Authors: Andrew R. Medvec, Christopher Ecker, Hong Kong, Emily A. Winters, Joshua Glover, Angel Varela-Rohena, James L. Riley
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-03-01
Series:Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2329050117301171
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spelling doaj-4b72adeeb7ef495f864b298b3073f32a2020-11-24T23:43:23ZengElsevierMolecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development2329-05012018-03-018C657410.1016/j.omtm.2017.11.001Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free MediumAndrew R. Medvec0Christopher Ecker1Hong Kong2Emily A. Winters3Joshua Glover4Angel Varela-Rohena5James L. Riley6Department of Microbiology and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USADepartment of Microbiology and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USADepartment of Microbiology and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USADepartment of Microbiology and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USADepartment of Microbiology and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAGibco BioProduction Cell Culture and Cell Therapy, Thermo Fisher Scientific, 3175 Staley Road, Grand Island, NY 14072, USADepartment of Microbiology and Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USAImprovements to T cell culture systems that promote long-term engraftment and function of adoptively transferred T cells will likely result in superior clinical benefit to more individuals. To this end, we recently developed a chemically defined cell culture medium that robustly expands all T cell subsets in the absence of human serum. Using a humanized mouse model, we observed that T cells expanded in the absence of human serum provided durable control of tumors, whereas T cells expanded in medium supplemented with human serum only mediated transient control of tumor growth. Importantly, our new medium effectively expanded more differentiated T cells from multiple myeloma patients in the absence of serum. These patient-derived T cells were also able to provide durable control of B cell tumors in vivo, and this long-term control of cancer was lost when T cells were expanded in the presence of serum. Thus, engineered T cells expanded in an optimized medium in the absence of serum may have improved therapeutic potential.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2329050117301171adoptive T cell therapyleukemiaeffector memory T cellpatient T cell
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author Andrew R. Medvec
Christopher Ecker
Hong Kong
Emily A. Winters
Joshua Glover
Angel Varela-Rohena
James L. Riley
spellingShingle Andrew R. Medvec
Christopher Ecker
Hong Kong
Emily A. Winters
Joshua Glover
Angel Varela-Rohena
James L. Riley
Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium
Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development
adoptive T cell therapy
leukemia
effector memory T cell
patient T cell
author_facet Andrew R. Medvec
Christopher Ecker
Hong Kong
Emily A. Winters
Joshua Glover
Angel Varela-Rohena
James L. Riley
author_sort Andrew R. Medvec
title Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium
title_short Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium
title_full Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium
title_fullStr Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium
title_full_unstemmed Improved Expansion and In Vivo Function of Patient T Cells by a Serum-free Medium
title_sort improved expansion and in vivo function of patient t cells by a serum-free medium
publisher Elsevier
series Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development
issn 2329-0501
publishDate 2018-03-01
description Improvements to T cell culture systems that promote long-term engraftment and function of adoptively transferred T cells will likely result in superior clinical benefit to more individuals. To this end, we recently developed a chemically defined cell culture medium that robustly expands all T cell subsets in the absence of human serum. Using a humanized mouse model, we observed that T cells expanded in the absence of human serum provided durable control of tumors, whereas T cells expanded in medium supplemented with human serum only mediated transient control of tumor growth. Importantly, our new medium effectively expanded more differentiated T cells from multiple myeloma patients in the absence of serum. These patient-derived T cells were also able to provide durable control of B cell tumors in vivo, and this long-term control of cancer was lost when T cells were expanded in the presence of serum. Thus, engineered T cells expanded in an optimized medium in the absence of serum may have improved therapeutic potential.
topic adoptive T cell therapy
leukemia
effector memory T cell
patient T cell
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2329050117301171
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