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Volume 3 Supplement 2

30th Annual Meeting and Associated Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2015)

CRISPR-Cas9 mediated efficient PD-1 disruption on human primary T cells for adoptive therapy

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer volume 3, Article number: P53 (2015) Cite this article

Background

Strategies that enhance the function of T cells are critical for immunotherapy.

Methods

Here we described for the first time a non-viral mediated approach to reprogram primary human T cells by disruption of PD-1.

Results

We showed that the gene knockout of PD-1 by electroporation of plasmids encoding sgRNA and Cas9 was technically feasible. The disruption of PD-1 resulted in significant reduction of PD-1 expression but didn't affect the viability of primary human T cells. Cellular immune response of the gene modified T cells was characterized by up-regulated IFN-γ production and enhanced cytotoxicity.

Conclusions

These results suggest that we have established an approach for efficient checkpoint inhibitor disruption, providing a new strategy for targeting checkpoint inhibitors to improve the efficacy of T cell based adoptive therapies.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the entire Huang Lab and Liu Lab for their support and advice. This work was funded by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81172281, 81000980, 81220108023, 81172094).

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  1. The Comprehensive Cancer Centre of Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    Shu Su & Baorui Liu

  2. The Comprehensive Cancer Center of Drum-Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University & Clinical Cancer Institute of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

    Zhengyun Zou

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Su, S., Liu, B. & Zou, Z. CRISPR-Cas9 mediated efficient PD-1 disruption on human primary T cells for adoptive therapy. j. immunotherapy cancer 3 (Suppl 2), P53 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-1426-3-S2-P53

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Keywords

  • Public Health
  • Immune Response
  • Cellular Immune Response
  • Gene Knockout
  • Mediate Approach