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Wenjuan Liao, M. Kohler, T. Fry, P. Ernst
Experimental Hematology, 2021
Experimental Hematology, 2021
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Liao, W., Kohler, M., Fry, T., & Ernst, P. (2021). Does lineage plasticity enable escape from CAR-T cell therapy? Lessons from MLL-r leukemia. Experimental Hematology.
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Liao, Wenjuan, M. Kohler, T. Fry, and P. Ernst. “Does Lineage Plasticity Enable Escape from CAR-T Cell Therapy? Lessons from MLL-r Leukemia.” Experimental Hematology (2021).
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@article{wenjuan2021a,
title = {Does lineage plasticity enable escape from CAR-T cell therapy? Lessons from MLL-r leukemia},
year = {2021},
journal = {Experimental Hematology},
author = {Liao, Wenjuan and Kohler, M. and Fry, T. and Ernst, P.}
}
Abstract
The clinical success of engineered, CD19-directed chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells in relapsed, refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) has generated great enthusiasm for the use of CAR T cells in patients with cytogenetics that portend a poor prognosis with conventional cytotoxic therapies. One such group includes infants and children with mixed lineage leukemia (MLL1, KMT2A) rearrangements (MLL-r), who fare much worse than patients with low- or standard-risk B-ALL. Although early clinical trials using CD19 CAR T cells for MLL-r B-ALL produced complete remission in most patients, relapse with CD19-negative disease was a common mechanism of treatment failure. Whereas CD19neg relapse has been observed across a broad spectrum of B-ALL patients treated with CD19-directed therapy, patients with MLL-r have manifested the emergence of AML, often clonally related to the B-ALL, suggesting that the inherent heterogeneity or lineage plasticity of MLL-r B-ALL may predispose patients to a myeloid relapse. Understanding the factors that enable and drive myeloid relapse may be important to devise strategies to improve durability of remissions. In this review, we summarize clinical observations to date with MLL-r B-ALL and generally discuss lineage plasticity as a mechanism of escape from immunotherapy.