Humanized mice (humice) carrying patient-derived xenograft (PDX) as a platform to develop immunotherapy in bladder cancer (BCa).

Authors

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Chong-xian Pan

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA

Chong-xian Pan , Wei Shi , Ai-Hong Ma , Hongyong Zhang , Primo Lara Jr., James G. Keck , Karolina Palucka , Susan D. Airhart , Ralph deVere White

Organizations

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California Davis Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, UC Davis, Sacramento, CA, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, The Jackson Laboratory, Sacramento, CA, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, Urology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA

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Background: Immunotherapy with anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD1) or PD ligand 1 (PD-L1) antibody has emerged as a promising therapeutic modality, but has a response rate of approximately 20% in BCa. There are various drawbacks associated with current animal models. The objective of this study is to establish and characterize humice carrying PDXs in which both the immune cells and BCa cells are derived from humans. Methods: NOD-scid IL2Rgammanull or NSG, mice received CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) cells i.v. after whole body radiation. PDXs were established through direct implantation of human BCa clinical specimens into NSG mice. Immune cell subpopulations were analyzed through flow cytometry analysis. Humice carrying HLA-unmatched PDXs were treated with an anti-PD1 antibody pemborlizumab (pembro) or in combination with a BKT/ITK inhibitor ibrutinib to determine the anti-tumor efficacy and toxicity. Results: PDXs retained the morphology fidelity and 92-97% of genetic alterations of parental patient cancers. Of the first 8 PDXs tested, 3 had high PD-L1 ( > 10 FPKM) as determined by RNA-seq which was further confirmed with flow cytometry analysis. Major human immune cell sub-populations were reconstituted in humice. No xenograft versus host disease was observed before pembro treatment. In humice with HPC donor 6466, pembro significantly inhibited tumor growth (p = 0.0016 at Day 29) of PDX BL293, but had no effect in another PDX BL440 with the same HPC donor 6466, or with the same PDX BL293 but with a different HPC donor 912. In another set of humice (HPC donor 710) carrying PDX BL293, pembro alone inhibited tumor growth. However, addition of ibrutinib did not potentiate the efficacy of pembro, but increased toxicity. Tumor regression with pembro treatment was associated with decrease of CD4+PD1+, CD8+PD1+ cells at peripheral blood and increased CD45+ and CD8+ cells in PDXs. Conclusions: Humice carrying PDXs reconstitute with human immune system, and can potentially be used to screen for effective immunotherapeutic agents or combinations, and to study resistant mechanisms.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2017 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session B: Prostate Cancer and Urothelial Carcinoma

Track

Prostate Cancer,Urothelial Carcinoma,Prostate Cancer

Sub Track

Urothelial Carcinoma

Citation

J Clin Oncol 35, 2017 (suppl 6S; abstract 381)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2017.35.6_suppl.381

Abstract #

381

Poster Bd #

H18

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