Preliminary results of a Ga-PSMA PET/CT prospective study in prostate cancer patients with occult recurrence: Diagnostic performance and impact on therapeutic decision-making.

Background: In this prospective study (NCT03443609), we investigated the impact of 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET-CT on the treatment plan and therapeutic response obtained for patients with prostate cancer (PCa) presenting a recurrence with a low rising PSA.

Methods: One hundred thirty hormone-naive (PSA < 1.5 ng/mL) patients were enrolled.

FcγRIIIa (CD16) induction on human T lymphocytes and CD16pos T-lymphocyte amplification.

During serial assays designed to amplify natural killer (NK) cells in vitro, we observed that when peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from human immunodeficiency virus positive (HIV+) patients were stimulated for 2 weeks with an Epstein-Barr virus-infected B lymphoblastic cell line and interleukin-2, a well known procedure to amplify NK cells in vitro, 44.4 ± 18% CD3CD16 T lymphocytes were recovered together with NK cells, of which 78.2% expressed an αβ T-cell receptor (TCR).

Impact of TCR reactivity and HLA phenotype on naive CD8 T cell frequency in humans.

The impact of MHC phenotype on the shaping of the peripheral naive T cell repertoire in humans remains unknown. To address this, we compared the frequency and antigenic avidity of naive T cells specific for immunodominant self-, viral, and tumor Ags presented by a human MHC class I allele (HLA-A*02, referred to as A2) in individuals expressing or not this allele. Naive T cell frequencies varied from one Ag specificity to another but were restrained for a given specificity.

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic characterization of a public CMV-specific TCR in complex with its cognate antigen.

The T-cell response to human cytomegalovirus is characterized by a dramatic reduction of clonal diversity in patients undergoing chronic inflammation or immunodepression. In order to check whether all the selected high-avidity T-cell clones recognize the immunodominant pp65 peptide antigen pp65(495-503) (NLVPMVATV) presented by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule HLA-A2 in a similar manner, several public high-affinity T-cell receptors (TCRs) specific for the pp65(495-503)-HLA-A2 complex have been investigated. Expression, purification and crystallization were performed and preliminary crystallographic data were collected to 4.

Structural bases for the affinity-driven selection of a public TCR against a dominant human cytomegalovirus epitope.

Protective T cell responses elicited along chronic human CMV (HCMV) infections are sometimes dominated by CD8 T cell clones bearing highly related or identical public TCR in unrelated individuals. To understand the principles that guide emergence of these public T cell responses, we have performed structural, biophysical, and functional analyses of an immunodominant public TCR (RA14) directed against a major HLA-A*0201-restricted HCMV Ag (pp65(495-503)) and selected in vivo from a diverse repertoire after chronic stimulations. Unlike the two immunodominant public TCRs crystallized so far, which focused on one peptide hotspot, the HCMV-specific RA14 TCR interacts with the full array of available peptide residues.

Selection of high-avidity CD8 T cells correlates with control of hepatitis C virus infection.

Unlabelled: Both strong antigenic avidity and acquisition of proper effector functions contribute to the efficacy of antiviral T cell responses. To correlate these parameters with the outcome of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, we characterized HCV-specific CD8 T cell lines isolated after immunomagnetic sorting of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from human leukocyte antigen A*02 (HLA-A*02) individuals with various HCV serological statuses, using recombinant HLA-A*0201 multimers loaded with three immunodominant HCV genotype 1-derived epitopes. CD8 T cells specific for these three epitopes were derived from most HLA-A*0201 individuals, regardless of their HCV serology or clinical outcome.