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  3. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting FcRH5 provide robust tumour-specific responses in murine xenograft models of multiple myeloma

Chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting FcRH5 provide robust tumour-specific responses in murine xenograft models of multiple myeloma

  • Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 20;14(1):3642. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39395-4.
Dongpeng Jiang # 1,  Haiwen Huang # 2,  Huimin Qin # 1,  Koukou Tang 1,  Xiangru Shi 1,  Tingting Zhu 1,  Yuqing Gao 1,  Ying Zhang 1,  Xiaopeng Tian 2,  Jianhong Fu 2,  Weiwei Qu 1,  Weilan Cai 1,  Yang Xu 3,  Depei Wu 4,  Jianhong Chu 5
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
  • 2 Department of hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
  • 3 Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. [email protected].
  • 4 Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. [email protected].
  • 5 Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, National Clinical Research Center for Hematologic Diseases, Jiangsu Institute of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Hematology, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. [email protected].
  • # Contributed equally.
PMID: 37339964 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-39395-4
Abstract

BCMA-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy demonstrates impressive clinical response in multiple myeloma (MM). However, some patients with BCMA-deficient tumours cannot benefit from this therapy, and Others can experience BCMA antigen loss leading to relapse, thus necessitating the identification of additional CAR-T targets. Here, we show that FcRH5 is expressed on multiple myeloma cells and can be targeted with CAR-T cells. FcRH5 CAR-T cells elicited antigen-specific activation, cytokine secretion and cytotoxicity against MM cells. Moreover, FcRH5 CAR-T cells exhibited robust tumoricidal efficacy in murine xenograft models, including one deficient in BCMA expression. We also show that different forms of soluble FcRH5 can interfere with the efficacy of FcRH5 CAR-T cells. Lastly, FcRH5/BCMA-bispecific CAR-T cells efficiently recognized MM cells expressing FcRH5 and/or BCMA and displayed improved efficacy, compared with mono-specific CAR-T cells in vivo. These findings suggest that targeting FcRH5 with CAR-T cells may represent a promising therapeutic avenue for MM.

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