作者: Mackall, Crystal L. ; Milewski, David ; Chou, Hsien-Chao ; Wu, Jerry T. ; Linardic, Corinne M. ; Orentas, Rimas J. ; Cheuk, Adam T. ; Shivaprasad, Nityashree ; Rahmy, Abdelrahman ; Moses, Larry ; Gryder, Berkley E. ; Maris, John M. ; Kumar, Jeetendra ; Azorsa, Peter ; Dimitrov, Dimiter S. ; Schneider, Dina ; Khan, Javed ; Tian, Meijie ; Sorensen, Poul H. ; Highfill, Steven L. ; Masih, Katherine E. ; Brown, G. Tom ; Belyea, Brian ; Kim, Yong Yean ; Song, Hannah ; Wei, Jun S. ; Dropulic, Boro ; Song, Young K. ; Sullivan, Peter M.
Pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) have dismal cure rates, and effective therapy is urgently needed.The oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinase fibroblast growth factor receptor 4 (FGFR4) is highly expressed in RMS and lowly expressed in healthy tissues.Here, we describe a second-generation FGFR4-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), based on an anti-human FGFR4-specific murine monoclonal antibody 3A11, as an adoptive T cell treatment for RMS.The 3A11 CAR T cells induced robust cytokine production and cytotoxicity against RMS cell lines in vitro.In contrast, a panel of healthy human primary cells failed to activate 3A11 CAR T cells, confirming the selectivity of 3A11 CAR T cells against tumors with high FGFR4 expression.Finally, we demonstrate that 3A11 CAR T cells are persistent in vivo and can effectively eliminate RMS tumors in two metastatic and two orthotopic models.Therefore, our study credentials CAR T cell therapy targeting FGFR4 to treat patients with RMS.