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Multi-parameter optical imaging of immune cell activity in chimeric antigen receptor T-cell and checkpoint blockade therapies

Xie, J.; Rami, F. E.; Zhou, K.; Simonetta, F.; Chen, Z.; Zheng, X.; Chen, M.; Balakrishnan, P. B.; Dai, S.-Y.; Murty, S.; Alam, I. S.; Baker, J.; Negrin, R. S.; Gambhir, S. S.; Rao, J.

2021-10-13 immunology
10.1101/2021.10.11.463603 bioRxiv
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Longitudinal multimodal imaging presents unique opportunities for noninvasive surveillance and prediction of treatment response to cancer immunotherapy. In this work we first designed a novel granzyme B activated self-assembly small molecule, G-SNAT, for quantitative assessment of cytotoxic T lymphocyte mediated cancer cell killing in vivo. In lymphoma tumor bearing mice, the retention of cyanine 5 labeled G-SNAT-Cy5 was shown to be highly correlated to CAR T-cell mediated granzyme B release and tumor eradication. In colorectal tumor-bearing transgenic mice, expressing firefly luciferase in hematopoietic cells, and which received combination treatment of anti-PD-1 and anti-CTLA-4, longitudinal bioluminescence and fluorescence imaging revealed the dynamics of immune cell expansion, trafficking, tumor infiltration, and cytotoxic activity which predicted therapeutic outcome before tumor shrinkage was evident. These results support further development of G-SNAT for imaging early immune response to checkpoint blockade and CAR T-cell therapy in patients and highlight the utility of multimodality imaging for improved mechanistic insights into cancer immunotherapy.

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