400 Preclinical characterization and modelling of allogeneic Vγ9Vδ2 TAC T cells for the treatment of solid tumors
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Abstract
<h3>Background</h3> The T cell antigen coupler (TAC) is a novel, proprietary chimeric receptor that facilitates the redirection of T cells to tumor cells and activates T cells by co-opting the endogenous T cell receptor complex with the goal to elicit safe and durable anti-tumor responses. TAC01-HER2, a first-in-class, autologous TAC T cell product targeting HER2 (ERBB2), has entered a phase I/II clinical trial in patients with HER2-positive solid tumors. Vγ9Vδ2 (γδ) T cells belong to a subset of T cells that recognize target cells independent of human leukocyte antigen (HLA). Consequently, γδ T cells do not cause graft-versus-host (GvH) disease and thus, have the potential for allogeneic cell therapy applications. Here, we present preclinical data of an allogeneic HER2-TAC product based on Vγ9Vδ2 T cells. <h3>Methods</h3> The potency and safety of HER2-TAC γδ T cells generated from multiple donors was evaluated using various <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo</i> assays. Flow cytometric analysis was used to determine cellular phenotypes, intracellular cytokines, CD69 upregulation, and T cell proliferation in response to target antigen. Cytotoxicity was assessed via both luciferase-based killing and real-time microscopy-based co-culture assays. To assess HER2-TAC γδ T cell responses to HLA mismatches between unrelated donors, mixed lymphocyte reactions (MLR) were performed using dendritic cells representing the major North American HLA subtypes. <i>In vivo</i> studies examined the anti-tumor effects of HER2-TAC γδ T cells against established HER2-expressing solid tumors. <h3>Results</h3> HER2-TAC γδ T cells selectively reacted to HER2-expressing tumor cells<i> in vitro</i>, as measured by CD69 upregulation, intracellular cytokine production, proliferation, and cytotoxicity. In contrast, HER2-TAC γδ T cells failed to show proliferative activity in MLR assays, indicating that HER2-TAC γδ T cells are likely free of GvH reactivity. In addition, HER2-TAC γδ T cells showed strong anti-tumor efficacy in HER2-positive tumor xenograft models without signs of toxicity. Similar anti-tumor efficacy was observed in both NSG mice bearing the human IL-15 transgene (Tg-hIL-15) and NSG mice supplemented with exogenous IL-15. Comparison of serum IL-15 levels between Tg-hIL15 mice and NSG mice with cytokine supplementation revealed significantly lower levels in Tg-hIL15 mice, suggesting that Tg-hIL15 mice may be a more physiologically relevant model to study γδ T cells <i>in vivo</i>. <h3>Conclusions</h3> HER2-targeted TAC γδ T cells display strong and specific activity against HER2-expressing tumor models <i>in vitro</i> and <i>in vivo.</i> This highlights the versatility of the TAC platform and its potential in the development of an allogeneic product for therapeutic applications in solid tumors. <h3>Ethics Approval</h3> Animal studies performed for the work presented in this abstract were conducted under the Animal Utilization Protocol (AUP) # 20–10-37 and approved by the Animal Research Ethics Committee at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON, Canada).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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