T cell that Chimeric antigen receptor is modified and uses thereof
Technical field
The present invention relates to immunology and biology field, relate more specifically to T cell of Chimeric antigen receptor modification and uses thereof.
Background technology
Major part has the patient of B cell malignant tumour-comprise chronic lymphocytic leukemia (ChronicLymphocyticLeukemia, CLL), use the curative ratio of chemotherapy, targeted therapy and prognosis all very poor.A method for the treatment of these patients be genetic modification T cell with the expression by Chimeric antigen receptor (ChimericAntigenReceptor, CAR), the antigen that target is expressed on tumour cell.CAR is designed to the antigen receptor with the mode identification cell-surface antigens of human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-dependent/non-dependent.The trial utilizing the T cell of genetic modification expressing CAR to treat these types patient success (MolecularTherapy, 2010,18:4,666-668 to a certain extent; Blood, 2008,112:2261-2271).
Along with the development of Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (ChimericAntigenReceptor-Tcell, CAR-T) technology, current CAR-T mainly can be divided into three generations.
First-generation CAR-T cell is by born of the same parents outer land---single-chain antibody (single-chainfragmentvariable, scF
v), cross-film district (transmembraneregion, and intracellular signal district---immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (immunoreceptortyrosine-basedactivationmotif TM), ITAM) form, wherein Chimeric antigen receptor each several part connects by following form: scFv-TM-CD3 ζ.This kind of CAR-T cell can excite antitumoral cytotoxic effect, but cytokine secretion is fewer, and lasting anti-tumour effect [ZhangT.et.al.ChimericNKG2D-modifiedTcellsinhibitsystemic T-celllymphomagrowthinamannerinvolvingmultiplecytokinesa ndcytotoxicpathways can not be excited in vivo, CancerRes2007,67 (22): 11029-11036.].
The s-generation CAR-T cell developed subsequently adds the intracellular signal district of CD28 or CD137 (having another name called 4-1BB), and wherein Chimeric antigen receptor each several part connects by following form: scFv-TM-CD28-ITAM or scFv-TM-CD137-ITAM.B7/CD28 or 4-1BBL/CD137 that intracellular signal district occurs altogether hormesis causes the continuous proliferation of T cell, and the level of the cytokines such as T cell secretion IL-2 and IFN-γ can be improved, improve CAR-T time to live in vivo and antitumous effect [DottiG.et.al.CD28costimulationimprovesexpansionandpersis tenceofchimericantigenreceptormodifiedTcellsinlymphomapa tients.JClinInvest simultaneously, 2011,121 (5): 1822-1826.].
The third generation CAR-T cell developed in recent years, wherein Chimeric antigen receptor each several part connects by following form: scFv-TM-CD28-CD137-ITAM or scFv-TM-CD28-CD134-ITAM, further increase CAR-T time to live in vivo and its antitumous effect [CarpenitoC., etal.Controloflargeestablishedtumorxenograftswithgenetic allyretargetedhumanTcellscontainingCD28andCD137domains.P NAS, 2009,106 (9): 3360-3365.].
Although CAR-T cell has tempting prospect in immunotherapy of tumors, some potential risks also need to consider.Such as, due to some/kind of the healthy tissues low expression CAR specific antigens that can identify may cause CAR-T cell to the damage of the healthy tissues of expression corresponding antigens.In addition, costimulatory signal too much in CAR can reduce effector cell and activate required threshold value, make the T cell of genetic modification low-level antigen or do not have antigen to trigger condition under also may be activated, cause the release of a large amount of cytokine so that may cause so-called " cytokine storm ".This signal leak outside (signalleakage) can cytotoxicity of missing the target be caused, thus produce nonspecific tissue injury.
Composition and the method for the treatment of human cancer is disclosed at present in number of patent application 201180067173.X, this invention comprises the T cell relating to and use genetic modification, to express CAR, wherein CAR comprises antigen binding domain (that is, the outer land of born of the same parents), trans-membrane region, costimulatory signal conducting region and CD3 ζ intracellular signaling district.But the antigen binding domain scFv right and wrong of this CAR-T cell surface humanized (mouse source), this causes CAR-T cell itself to have immunogenicity.
In summary, this area also exists the tight demand to the CAR-T cell overcoming above-mentioned defect.
Summary of the invention
A first aspect of the present invention provides the nucleic acid molecule that coding is expressed in the Chimeric antigen receptor on T cell surface, described Chimeric antigen receptor comprise be linked in sequence signal peptide, the outer land of born of the same parents, optional hinge area (hingeregion), cross-film district and intracellular signal district (signalregion), the nucleotide sequence of the outer land of wherein said born of the same parents is as shown in SEQIDNo:4 or SEQIDNo:5.
A second aspect of the present invention provides the carrier being expressed in the nucleic acid molecule of the Chimeric antigen receptor on T cell surface comprising first aspect present invention.
A third aspect of the present invention provides the virus of the carrier comprising second aspect present invention, the virus with infection ability after it comprises packaging, also comprise be packaged as the infectious virus institute of tool must the virus to be packaged of composition.
A fourth aspect of the present invention provides the T cell of genetic modification, and it comprises the virus of the nucleotide sequence of first aspect present invention or the carrier of second aspect present invention or third aspect present invention.
A fifth aspect of the present invention provides the medicine of the T cell comprising fourth aspect present invention.
A sixth aspect of the present invention provides the purposes of T cell for the preparation of the medicine for the treatment of tumour of fourth aspect present invention.
The antigen binding domain scFv of CAR-T cell surface of the present invention is through humanization modified, and therefore its immunogenicity reduces greatly.
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Fig. 1 shows the detected result expressing the T cell that Chimeric antigen receptor is modified.
Fig. 2 shows the result marked CAR-T19 cell with carbonyl cyanine dye Did.
Fig. 3 shows the result marked Daudi cell with carbonyl cyanine dye Did.
Fig. 4 shows by the result of Flow cytometry CAR-T19 cell to Daudi killing functions of immunocytes.
Fig. 5 shows T cell and CAR-T19 cell to the comparative result of the fragmentation effect of target cell Daudi.
Fig. 6 shows CAR-T19 containing different scFv region to the comparative result of the fragmentation effect of target cell Daudi.
Fig. 7 shows the result of the different CAR-T19 of vitro detection to the lethal effect of bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte leukaemic cell.
Embodiment
As mentioned above, a first aspect of the present invention provides the nucleic acid molecule that coding is expressed in the Chimeric antigen receptor on T cell surface, described Chimeric antigen receptor comprise be linked in sequence signal peptide, the outer land of born of the same parents, optional hinge area, cross-film district and intracellular signal district, the nucleotide sequence of the outer land of wherein said born of the same parents is as shown in SEQIDNo:4 or SEQIDNo:5.
Term of the present invention " nucleic acid " can be DNA form or rna form.DNA form comprises the DNA of cDNA, genomic dna or synthetic.DNA can be strand or double-strand.DNA can be coding strand or noncoding strand.The invention still further relates to the varient of described nucleic acid, its coding has the polypeptide of identical aminoacid sequence or fragment, the sum analogous to general Dedekind sum of polypeptide with the present invention.The varient of described nucleic acid can be the allelic variant of natural generation or the varient of non-natural generation.These nucleic acid variants comprise and replace varient, Deletion variants and insertion varient.As would be known to one of ordinary skill in the art, allelic variant is a kind of replacement form of polynucleotide, and it may be the replacement of one or more Nucleotide, disappearance or insertion, but can not from the function of polypeptide changing in fact its coding.
In one embodiment, described signal peptide is GMCSF signal peptide, and its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:1
In one embodiment, described signal peptide is CD8 signal peptide, and its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:2.
In one embodiment, described hinge area can be selected from the hinge area of the albumen such as CD8 or CD28.Described CD8 or CD28 is the native marker thing on T cell surface.
In a specific embodiment, described hinge area is CD8 hinge area (CD8-hinge), and its nucleotide sequence is as SEQIDNo:6.
In a specific embodiment, described hinge area is CD28 hinge area (CD28-hinge), and its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:7.
In one embodiment, described cross-film district can be selected from the cross-film district of the albumen such as CD8 or CD28.
In a specific embodiment, described cross-film district is CD8 cross-film district (CD8-TM), and its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:8.
In a specific embodiment, described cross-film district is CD28 cross-film district (CD28-TM), and its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:9.
Described " the outer land of born of the same parents " comprises the scFv (anti-CD19scFv) of specific recognition people CD19 epi-position.
Term used herein " scFv " refers to such antibody fragment---it comprises the variable region of heavy chain (variableregionofheavychain connected by joint (linker), and variable region of light chain (variableregionoflightchain VH), VL) recombinant protein, joint makes these two structural domains be associated, finally to form antigen binding site.The size of scFv is generally 1/6 of a complete antibody.The aminoacid sequence that scFv is preferably encoded by a nucleotide chain.The scFv that the present invention uses is by being used alone or in combination routine techniques known in the art, and such as aminoacid deletion, insertion, replacement, increase and/or restructuring and/or other modifying method are done to modify further.A kind of method introducing this modification according to aminoacid sequence of antibody in its DNA sequence dna is known (see such as a person skilled in the art, Sambrook molecular cloning: laboratory manual, ColdSpringHarborLaboratory (1989) N.Y.).Described modification is preferably carried out in nucleic acid level.Above-mentioned scFv can also comprise its derivative.
Term used herein " specific recognition " mean bi-specific antibody of the present invention not with or substantially not with target antigen beyond any polypeptide cross reaction.Its specific degree can be judged by immunological technique, includes but not limited to immunoblotting, immunoaffinity chromatography, flow cytometry etc.
In one embodiment, described intracellular signal district can be selected from the intracellular signal district of CD3 ζ, Fc ε RI γ, CD28, CD137, CD134 albumen, and combination.CD3 molecule is made up of five subunits, and wherein containing 3 ITAM motifs, this motif is signal zone of transformation important in TCR-CD3 complex body in CD3 ζ subunit (also known as CD3zeta, being called for short Z).CD3 δ Z is the CD3 ζ sequence without ITAM motif of sudden change, the general structure component as negative control in an embodiment of the present invention.Fc ε RI γ is mainly distributed in mastocyte and basophil cellular surface, and it contains an ITAM motif, in structure, distribution and functionally similar with CD3 ζ.In addition as previously mentioned, CD28, CD137, CD134 are costimulatory signal molecules, with respective ligand binding after the common hormesis that produces of its intracellular signal section cause the continuous proliferation of T cell, and the level of the cytokines such as T cell secretion IL-2 and IFN-γ can be improved, improve CAR-T cell time to live in vivo and antitumous effect simultaneously.
The present invention use intracellular signal district have multiple combination, it comprise be selected from following signaling zone or its combination:
CD28 signaling zone (CD28-signal), its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:10;
CD137 signaling zone (CD137-signal), its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:11; With
CD3 ζ signaling zone (CD3 ζ-signal), its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:12.
In a specific embodiment, the Chimeric antigen receptor albumen being expressed in T cell surface of the present invention be selected from following comprise be linked in sequence signal peptide, the outer land of born of the same parents, optional hinge area, cross-film district and intracellular signal district Chimeric antigen receptor albumen:
GMCSF – scFv-S1 – CD8-hinge – CD8-TM – CD137-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:13;
GMCSF – scFv-S2 – CD8-hinge – CD8-TM – CD137-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:14;
GMCSF – scFv-S1 – CD28-TM – CD28-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:15;
GMCSF – scFv-S2 – CD28-TM – CD28-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:16;
GMCSF – scFv-S1 – CD8-hinge – CD8-TM – CD28-signal – CD137-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:17;
GMCSF – scFv-S2 – CD8-hinge – CD8-TM – CD28-signal – CD137-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:18;
As mentioned above, a second aspect of the present invention provides the carrier being expressed in the nucleic acid molecule of the Chimeric antigen receptor on T cell surface comprising first aspect present invention.
In a specific embodiment, the carrier that the present invention uses is a kind of slow virus plasmid vector pLenti-CMV-eGFP.This plasmid belongs to the third generation from deactivation slow virus carrier system, and this system has the packaging plasmid psPAX2 of three plasmids and proteins encoded Gag/Pol, coding Rev albumen; The envelope plasmid pVSVG of coding vesicular stomatitis virus-G protein; And empty carrier pLenti-CMV-eGFP, it may be used for restructuring and introduces object nucleotide sequence, the nucleotide sequence of the CAR that namely encodes.By elongation factor-1 α (elongationfactor-1 α in empty carrier pLenti-CMV-eGFP (itself being the mock in follow-up test), EF-1 α) expression of promoter regulation enhanced green fluorescence protein (enhancedgreenfluorescentprotein, eGFP).And the recombinant expression vector pLenti-CMV-eGFP comprising the object nucleotide sequence of coding CAR is by realizing the coexpression of eGFP and CAR by the ribosomal skip sequence (ribosomalskippingsequence2A) (being called for short F2A) from foot and mouth disease virus (foodandmouthviresdisease, FMDV).
In another embodiment, the carrier that the present invention uses is a kind of retroviral vector pMSCV-Ubc-GFP, and this plasmid is used for process LAN object nucleotide sequence, the nucleotide sequence of the CAR that namely encodes.
As mentioned above, a third aspect of the present invention provides the virus of the carrier comprising second aspect present invention, the virus with infection ability after it comprises packaging, also comprise be packaged as the infectious virus institute of tool must the virus to be packaged of composition.
In one embodiment, described virus is the slow virus of the pLenti-CMV-eGFP-F2A-CAR recombinant vectors comprising second aspect present invention.In another embodiment, described virus is the retrovirus of the pMSCV-Ubc-GFP-CAR recombinant vectors comprising second aspect present invention.Should be understood that the virus of other transfecting T cells as known in the art and the plasmid vector of correspondence thereof also can be used for the present invention.
As mentioned above, a fourth aspect of the present invention provides the T cell of genetic modification, wherein transforms the virus having the nucleotide sequence of first aspect present invention or the carrier of second aspect present invention or third aspect present invention.
The nuclear transformation method of this area routine---comprise non-viral and viral method for transformation and may be used to the present invention.Electroporation and transposon method is comprised based on non-viral method for transformation.Foreign gene transfered cell core directly can be obtained the Efficient Conversion of goal gene by the nucleofector consideration convey dye instrument of recent Amaxa company research and development.In addition, the more common electroporation of transformation efficiency based on Transposon Systems such as sleeping beauty transposon stand (SleepingBeautysystem) or PiggyBac transposons improves a lot, nucleofector transfection instrument and the system combined application of SB sleeping beauty transposon stand are had been reported [DaviesJK., etal.CombiningCD19redirectionandalloanergizationtogenera tetumor-specifichumanTcellsforallogeneiccelltherapyofB-c ellmalignancies.CancerRes, 2010, 70 (10): OF1-10.], the method can either have the site-directed integration that higher transformation efficiency can realize again goal gene.
In one embodiment of the invention, the lymphocytic method for transformation of T realizing Chimeric antigen receptor genetic modification is based on the method for transformation of virus as retrovirus or slow virus.It is high that the method has transformation efficiency, and foreign gene can stably express, and can shorten vitro culture T lymphocyte and arrive the advantages such as the time of clinical grade quantity.At this transgenosis T lymphocytic cell surface, the nucleic acid of conversion by transcribing, accurate translation thereon.Prove the cell in vitro poison experiment that various different cultured tumor cells carries out, the transgenosis T lymphocyte of surface expression Chimeric antigen receptor of the present invention has the tumor cytotoxicity effect (also known as cytotoxicity) of high degree of specificity.Therefore the nucleic acid molecule of encoding chimeric antigen acceptor of the present invention, the plasmid comprising this nucleic acid, the virus comprising this plasmid and conversion have the transgenosis T lymphocyte of above-mentioned nucleic acid, plasmid or virus can effectively for the immunotherapy of tumour.
As mentioned above, a fifth aspect of the present invention provides the medicine of the T cell comprising fourth aspect present invention.
In one embodiment, described medicine also comprises pharmaceutically useful thinner, vehicle or carrier etc.
As mentioned above, a sixth aspect of the present invention provides the purposes of T cell for the preparation of the medicine for the treatment of tumour of fourth aspect present invention.
Below by way of specific embodiment, content of the present invention is described.Should be understood that described specific embodiment only for the purpose of illustration, and do not mean that content of the present invention is only limitted to specific embodiment.
The preparation of the nucleotide sequence of embodiment 1:CAR molecule
CAR molecule of the present invention comprises signal peptide, the outer land of born of the same parents, optional hinge area, cross-film district and intracellular signal district.The nucleotide sequence of the outer land of described born of the same parents is that (at this called after anti-CD19scFv-S0, referred to as scFv-S0, it derives from mouse, see JImmunother.2009September for the antigen binding domain of the Chimeric antigen receptor at anti-CD19; 32 (7): 689 – 702.) nucleotide sequence (SEQIDNo:3) basis on carry out humanization modified and obtain.Should be understood that the principle that antibody humanization transforms is while guarantee affinity of antibody, skeleton district (frameworkregion, FM) is changed for people's source sequence to greatest extent, to reduce the immunogenicity of antibody.In this embodiment, antigen recognition district in SEQIDNo:3 is remained unchanged, remaining sequence is changed accordingly, carry out the humanization design more than 40 kinds, obtain these sequences by the method synthesis of gene chemical synthesis again, other parts of CAR molecule are all utilize round pcr, clone respectively and obtain from human cDNA library, then carry out bridging to connect, finally prepare the nucleotide sequence of CAR molecule.These CAR molecules are proceeded to T cell, compare comprising containing the T cell kill capability to target cell of these T cell through the CAR molecule of humanization modified sequence with the CAR molecule comprised containing scFv-S0, final screening obtains two kinds through humanization modified born of the same parents outer land sequence---and the kill rate comprising the CAR-T19 of these two kinds of humanization modified sequences omits good than the kill rate of the CAR-T19 comprising scFv-S0 or does not have with it difference (Fig. 6 see in embodiment 4), it is called anti-CD19scFv-S1 (referred to as scFv-S1, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:4) and anti-CD19scFv-S2 (referred to as scFv-S2, its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:5).Below for SEQIDNo:15 and SEQIDNo:16, illustrate the preparation process of the nucleotide sequence of CAR molecule.
First carry out design of primers, the primer sequence used in the present embodiment is as follows:
1-1:5’-ATGCTTCTCCTGGTGACAAG-3’
1-2:5’-TGGGATCAGGAGGAATGCTG-3’
2-1:5’-TACATCTGGGCGCCCTTGGCCGG-3’
2-2:5’-GGAGCGATAGGCTGCGAAGTCGCG-3’
3-1:5’-AGAGTGAAGTTCAGCAGGAGCG-3’
3-2:5’-TTAGCGAGGGGGCAGGGCCT-3’
4-1:5’-ATGCTTCTCCTGGTGACAAGCC-3’
4-2:5’-TGAGGAGACGGTGACTGAGGTTCCTTGG-3’
5-1:5’-GCGGCCGCAATTGAAGTTATGTA-3’
5-2:5’-TTAGCGAGGGGGCAGGGCCTGC-3’
6-1:5’-CTAGACTAGTATGCTTCTCCTGGTGACAAGCC-3’
6-2:5’-CGACGCGTTTAGCGAGGGGGCAGGGCCTGC-3’
With the cDNA library of people for template, respectively with 1-1 and 1-2,2-1 and 2-2,3-1 and 3-2 for primer, clone corresponding CAR molecular moiety by PCR, be respectively GMCSF, CD28-TM+CD28-signal (these two portions are connected) and CD3 ζ-signal.GMCSF+scFv fragment is obtained again by bridging primer 4-1 and 4-2, CD28-TM+CD28-signal+CD3 ζ-signal fragment is obtained by bridging primer 5-1 and 5-2, obtained the nucleotide sequence of complete CAR molecule subsequently by bridging primer 6-1 and 6-2, restriction enzyme site is SpeI and MluI.
Embodiment 2: the structure comprising the virus vector of the nucleotide sequence of CAR molecule
By the nucleotide sequence of the CAR molecule of preparation in embodiment 1 through SpeI (Fermentas) and MluI (Fermentas) double digestion, the SpeI-MluI site being connected insertion slow virus pLenti-CMV-eGFP carrier through T4 ligase enzyme (Fermentas), be transformed into competence E.coli (DH5 α), through checking order correctly, the plasmid purification kit of Qrigene company is used to extract and plasmid purification, for follow-up slow virus Packaging experimentation.
The structure of embodiment 3:CAR-T cell
In this embodiment, the recombinant viral vector of preparation is first made in embodiment 2 to be packaged into virus, then by T cell that this virus infection T cell is modified to realize Chimeric antigen receptor.Present invention employs based on the method for transformation of virus as retrovirus or slow virus.It is high that the method has transformation efficiency, and foreign gene can stably express, and can shorten culturing T cells in vitro and arrive the advantages such as the time of clinical grade quantity.Concrete steps are as follows:
Slow virus is packed: first day: inoculation 293T cell is in 10cm culture dish, and during guarantee transfection in second day, cell confluency degree is 80-90%; Second day: transfection, before transfection, 1h was replaced by 5mL serum-free DMEM high glucose medium the substratum of 293T; In EP pipe, add 500 μ LDMEM, add 4 μ gpR8.74,400ngpVSVG subsequently, 4 μ gpLenti-CMV-eGFP-F2A-CAR vortex oscillation 8s mix; Add the PEI (1 μ g/ μ L, totally 25.2 μ L) of plasmid (pR8.74+pLenti-CMV-eGFP-F2A-CAR) 3 times of volumes, vortex oscillation 20s mixes, and room temperature leaves standstill 15min; Mixed dropwise is added in 293T cell; After transfection 6h, substratum is replaced by the full substratum containing 10%FBS.After transfection 48h, collecting cell culture supernatant, 4 DEG C of centrifugal 15min of 3000rpm, get supernatant, with 0.45 μm of PVDF membrane filtration virus liquid, are sub-packed in EP pipe, are stored in-80 DEG C, to wait to infect T cell.
Recombinant slow virus infects T cell: the CD8 be separated from healthy human peripheral blood
+t lymphocyte, cultivate after activating and infect T cell with the above-mentioned recombinant slow virus of MOI=5, metainfective cell every other day adopts 2 × 10
5the density of/mL goes down to posterity.The CD8 infected
+t lymphocyte detects variant Chimeric antigen receptor and expresses when cultivation the 7th day, due to eGFP and CAR coexpression, detect the positive cell of eGFP be express Chimeric antigen receptor positive cell (result as shown in Figure 1, left figure is cell representative graph under light microscopic, right figure is the right figure of eGFP luciferase expression figure, left figure is the same visual field).
Embodiment 4: the structure of killing experiments in vitro model
Target cell selected by In vitro cell model is Daudi cell.Daudi clone derives from Burkitt lymphoma (Burkitt'slymphoma) patient, is a kind of typical B lymphoblast, is widely used in the research about mechanism such as leukemia generation and treatments in basis and preclinical test.Daudi cell high expression level B cell antigen CD19, can be killed and wounded by CAR-T19 (CAR-T of target CD19) cell recognition.Therefore, we utilize Daudi cell as target cell (T), CAR-T19 cell action effect cell (E), T cell cell (C) in contrast, construct the cell model of Cytotoxicity in vitro.This model simulates CAR-T19 cell or T cell in vivo to the leukemic therapeutic action of bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte in very high degree.
1) model of two kinds of monitoring Cell killing efficacy is set up
After T cell identification target cell, can make it that apoptosis occurs, and final cracking.Wherein late apoptic process and the cracking process of cell have and to overlap but not exclusively the same.Therefore we establish the model of two kinds of vitro detection Cell killing efficacy for apoptosis and cracking.
1-1) Flow cytometry target cell apoptosis
First, we utilize carbonyl cyanine dye Did to mark CAR-T19 cell, reach 99.17%, only have the CAR-T19 cell of 0.83% to be Did feminine gender (Fig. 2) by the cell of the Flow cytometry Did positive.
In addition, under same Testing index, the Daudi cell of 99.94% is Did feminine gender (Fig. 3).
Therefore, we first by Did in CAR-T19 cell marking, then hatch than with Daudi cytomixis according to certain ET, kill and wound; Then by the level of apoptosis of flow cytomery Did negative cells, acquired results can reflect that CAR-T19 cell kills and wounds level to Daudi cell.We utilize AnnexinV-FITC/PI to detect apoptosis, and what FITC/PI was double-negative is normal cell, and FITC is positive, PI is negative is viable apoptotic cell, and the two positive of FITC/PI is non-viable apoptotic cell.According to the ET ratio of 1:2, killing and wounding the apoptosis situation detecting Did negative cells after 4 hours, result is as shown in Figure 4: early apoptosis (LR=lowright) is 4.32%, and late apoptic (UR=upright) is 4.55%, and overall kill rate is 8.87%.
1-2) Fluorometric assay target cell lysis
Calcein-AM is that one can carry out fluorescently-labeled cell staining reagent to viable cell, because it strengthens hydrophobicity on the basis of Calcein, therefore, it is possible to penetrate membrane easily.After it enters into tenuigenin, can be that Calcein stays in cell by esterase hydrolyzed, thus send strong green fluorescence.We first by Calcein-AM on target cell Daudi mark, then utilize CAR-T19 cell to kill and wound it.After Daudi cell is killed and wounded also cracking by CAR-T19, Calcein can be discharged in supernatant liquor, detect the fluorescence intensity (TESTRELEASE) of supernatant, detect the fluorescence intensity (MAXIMUMRELEASE) of the maximum cracking of Daudi cell spontaneous apoptosis cracking (SPONTANEOUSRELEASE) and the Daudi cell that utilizes washing agent (TritonX-100 of 2%) to process simultaneously.Calculate the per-cent of lysis as follows: [(TESTRELEASE-SPONTANEOUSRELEASE)/(MAXIMUMRELEASE – SPONTANEOUSRELEASE)] * 100.
As shown in table 1, when ET is 1:2, killing and wounding the cleavage rate of DAUDI cell after 4 hours is 4.77%.The result of the basic late apoptic with being arrived by Flow cytometry of acquired results is similar.
Table 1 Fluorometric assay CAR-T19 cell is to the cleavage rate of DAUDI cell
2) the comparing of fragmentation effect of T cell and CAR-T19 cell
After establishing the model of cell in vitro fragmentation effect, we compare the CAR-T19 cell (comprising the CAR-T19 cell of GMCSF – scFv-S1 – CD28-TM – CD28-signal – CD3 ζ-signal or GMCSF – scFv-S2 – CD28-TM – CD28-signal – CD3 ζ-signal, respectively referred to as CAR-T19 (S1), CAR-T19 (S2)) of structure and do not have the T cell transformed to the fragmentation effect of target cell Daudi.Detecting step is with 1) described in, result as shown in Figure 5, under identical condition, the fragmentation effect of CAR-T19 cell improves at least 20 times (kill rate kill rate of T cell being set to 1, CAR-T19 (S1) and CAR-T19 (S2) is respectively 20.5,22).
3) comparison of the fragmentation effect of the CAR-T19 containing different scFv region
In the present embodiment, the CAR-T19 (CAR-T19 as above (S1), CAR-T19 (S2)) two kinds of the present invention being contained the outer land scFv (scFv-s1 and scFv-s2) of humanization modified born of the same parents compares the kill capability of target cell with containing the CAR-T19 (comprising the CAR-T19 of GMCSF – scFv-S0 – CD28-TM – CD28-signal – CD3 ζ-signal (its nucleotide sequence is as shown in SEQIDNo:19), referred to as CAR-T19 (S0)) without the outer land scFv (scFv-s0) of humanization modified born of the same parents.Concrete detecting step is with 1) described in, as shown in Figure 6, carry out humanization modification to scFv does not affect the killing-efficiency of CAR-T19 to target cell to result.
4) CAR-T19 that vitro detection is different is to the lethal effect of bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte leukaemic cell
In this embodiment, first the cell of bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte leukaemic is isolated, mainly be divided into two to walk greatly: the first step, from Bone Marrow of Patients, isolate PBMC (peripheral blood lymphocytes) (this step well known to a person skilled in the art); Second step, isolates B cell from PBMC.The concrete steps of described second step are as follows: mixed with the sheep red blood cell (SRBC) (SRBC) processed with the bromine flower different sulfohydrate of diamino (being called for short AET) by lymphocyte, wherein all T lymphocyte all can adsorb AET-SRBC to form firm stable and huge E-garland, the per-cent of E-garland that the per-cent of this E-garland is formed higher than T lymphocyte and normal untreated SRBC, and it is formed fast, difficult drop-off, reproducible.Then use lymphocytes separating solution to be separated, now AET-E-garland is easily sunken at the bottom of pipe, and bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte directly can take from the interface of layering liquid.This embodiment have detected CAR-T19 different in the present invention in vitro to the lethal effect of bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte leukaemic cell.Result is as shown in Figure 7: compared to the T cell without transformation, different CAR-T19 of the present invention (dividing subrepresentation with different CAR in the figure) kill capability to bone-marrow-derived lymphocyte leukaemic cell has remarkable enhancing.