Abstract
Simple SummaryOur study describes an AML patient whose leukemia cells carried the NPM1c+ mutation, and who was the recipient of allogeneic HSCT from a haploidentical donor. The patient raised a robust allorestricted CD8+ T cell response directed against the NPM1wt protein. Favourably, the response against NPM1wt was not accompanied by side effects such as GvHD. Moreover, the induction of a high NPM1wt specific response coincided with the decrease in NPM1c+ transcripts detected, implying a beneficial graft versus leukemia effect. On the basis of these results, we suppose that TCRs from allorestricted NPM1wt-specific T cells are worth studying in other recipients of grafts from haploidentical donors as a possible tool for TCR gene therapy.Nucleophosmin (NPM1, B23) is a multifunctional phosphoprotein expressed in all tissues. The protein is mainly localized in nucleoli. In hematological malignancies, NPM1 belongs to commonly altered genes. Its mutation, always heterozygous, leads to the re-localization of the NPM1 protein from the nucleolus to the cytoplasm (NPM1c+). NPM1c+ is found in 30% of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Our study showed that an AML patient, whose leukemia cells carried the NPM1c+ mutation and who was the recipient of allogeneic HSCT from a haploidentical donor, raised a robust allorestricted CD8+ T cell response directed against the NPM1wt protein. Favourably, the response against NPM1wt was not accompanied by side effects such as GvHD. Moreover, the induction of a high NPM1wt-specific response coincided with the decrease in NPM1c+ transcripts detected, implying a beneficial graft versus leukemia effect. On the basis of these results, we suppose that TCRs from allorestricted NPM1wt-specific T cells are worth studying in other recipients of grafts from haploidentical donors as a possible tool for TCR gene therapy.
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