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Induction of resistance to chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy by transduction of a single leukemic B cell.

Marco RuellaJun XuDavid M BarrettJoseph A FraiettaTyler J ReichDavid E AmbroseMichael KlichinskyOlga ShestovaPrachi R PatelIrina KulikovskayaFarzana NazimuddinVijay G BhojElena J OrlandoTerry J FryHans BitterShannon L MaudeBruce L LevineChristopher L NoblesFrederic D BushmanRegina M YoungJohn SchollerSaar I GillCarl H JuneStephan A GruppSimon F LaceyJ Joseph Melenhorst
Published in: Nature medicine (2018)
We report a patient relapsing 9 months after CD19-targeted CAR T cell (CTL019) infusion with CD19- leukemia that aberrantly expressed the anti-CD19 CAR. The CAR gene was unintentionally introduced into a single leukemic B cell during T cell manufacturing, and its product bound in cis to the CD19 epitope on the surface of leukemic cells, masking it from recognition by and conferring resistance to CTL019.
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