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Identification of mutation-specific tumor infiltrating lymphocytes from metastatic ovarian cancer
  1. Drew C Deniger1,
  2. Mini Bharathan1,
  3. Pasetto Anna2,
  4. Eric Tran2,
  5. Jared J Gartner2,
  6. Todd D Prickett3,
  7. Paul F Robbins2 and
  8. Steven A Rosenberg2
  1. Aff1 grid.48336.3a0000000419368075NIH/NCI Bethesda MD USA
  2. Aff2 grid.48336.3a0000000419368075Surgery Branch/National Cancer Institute / National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA
  3. Aff3 grid.48336.3a0000000419368075NCI/NIH Bethesda MD USA

https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P10

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    Meeting abstracts

    Introduction

    Novel interventions are needed for the treatment of women with metastatic ovarian cancer that causes 14,000 deaths each year in the USA. Retrospective analysis of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) infused into patients who achieved complete, durable regressions of metastatic melanoma revealed that the responses were likely mediated through recognition of somatic non-synonymous mutations. Furthermore, prospective administration of mutation-specific TIL resulted in an ongoing partial response in a patient with cholangiocarcinoma.

    Methods

    We now studied whether TIL obtained from metastatic ovarian cancer recognized tumor mutations. Exome and transcriptome sequencing was performed from resected metastatic ovarian cancer deposits in parallel with growth of TIL fragment cultures in IL-2. Long peptides and tandem minigenes (TMGs) encompassing all mutations were synthesized, introduced into autologous antigen presenting cells, co-cultured with individual TIL fragments and T cell reactivity was determined by interferon-γ ELISPOT and surface expression of 41BB.

    Results

    In patient 4046 (280 mutations), 8 of 24 fragments were reactive to TMG15 (86.9% ± 1.5% 41BB+ T cells; mean ± SEM). Co-culture with individual long peptides corresponding to the mutations in TMG15 revealed that the T cells recognized the USP9XY373C mutation, a putative tumor suppressor gene on the X chromosome. Two of 14 fragments from patient 4067 (122 mutations) were responsive to autologous tumor and a cumulative 41BB+ expression was observed at 51% and 8% in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, respectively, following co-culture with TMG2, TMG5, TMG6 and TMG7. Using UV-exchangeable peptide tetramers, the following candidate minimal epitopes from this patient were identified: ZWILCHS296F from TMG2, SPINT2H35L and TNPO1M697K from TMG5, HIST1H1CK181R from TMG6, and SUN2P117S and HIST1H1CD72G from TMG7. Patient 4097 (332 mutations) had 3 of 24 fragments with recognition of autologous tumor and CD4+ T cell reactivity (53%, 74% and 81% 41BB+) to mutated HIST1H1BA71D peptide. These fragments had 11% cumulative CD4+41BB+ T cells when co-cultured with mutated DEF6L319Q, GAKV534M and FLOT14-11del peptides. A fourth fragment had 6% CD4+41BB+ T cells in response to mutated INPP5KL176V peptide.

    Conclusions

    In summary, mutation-specific T cell responses were found in 3 of 4 patients with metastatic ovarian cancer, which opens the opportunity to use these cells for adoptive T cell treatment of advanced ovarian cancer.