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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

Gene-edited stem cells enable CD33-directed immune therapy for myeloid malignancies.

Florence Borot, Hui Wang, Yan Ma, Toghrul Jafarov, Azra Raza, Abdullah Mahmood Ali, Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 83 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 129 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Florence BorotIrving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; fb2311@cumc.columbia.edu ama2241@columbia.edu sm3252@cumc.columbia.edu.
Hui WangHumanized Mouse Core, Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
Yan MaIrving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
Toghrul JafarovIrving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
Azra RazaIrving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.
Abdullah Mahmood AliIrving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; fb2311@cumc.columbia.edu ama2241@columbia.edu sm3252@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-4007-6769
Siddhartha MukherjeeIrving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; fb2311@cumc.columbia.edu ama2241@columbia.edu sm3252@cumc.columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8251-7334
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Tumor Biology and Microenvironment ProgramP30CA013696 · NCI · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI Anil K Rustgi · 1985 to 2026
$115.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA013696
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Antigen-directed immunotherapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), such as chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR-Ts) or antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), are associated with severe toxicities due to the lack of unique targetable antigens that can distinguish leukemic cells from normal myeloid cells or myeloid progenitors. Here, we present an approach to treat AML by targeting the lineage-specific myeloid antigen CD33. Our approach combines CD33-targeted CAR-T cells, or the ADC Gemtuzumab Ozogamicin with the transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells that have been engineered to ablate CD33 expression using genomic engineering methods. We show highly efficient genetic ablation of CD33 antigen using CRISPR/Cas9 technology in human stem/progenitor cells (HSPC) and provide evidence that the deletion of CD33 in HSPC doesn't impair their ability to engraft and to repopulate a functional multilineage hematopoietic system in vivo. Whole-genome sequencing and RNA sequencing analysis revealed no detectable off-target mutagenesis and no loss of functional p53 pathways. Using a human AML cell line (HL-60), we modeled a postremission marrow with minimal residual disease and showed that the transplantation of CD33-ablated HSPCs with CD33-targeted immunotherapy leads to leukemia clearance, without myelosuppression, as demonstrated by the engraftment and recovery of multilineage descendants of CD33-ablated HSPCs. Our study thus contributes to the advancement of targeted immunotherapy and could be replicated in other malignancies.

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acute myeloid leukemiaCD33chimeric antigen receptorCRISPR/Cas9transplantation

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PMID31138698
PMCPMC6575599
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