IMMU-68. SINGLE-CELL PROTEOMIC ANALYSIS OF IMMUNE CELL RESPONSE TO CHECKPOINT BLOCKADE USING 30-PARAMETER FLOW CYTOMETRY

Amber Giles, Leonard Nettey, Thomas Liechti, Margaret Beddall, Elizabeth Vera, Deric Park, Jing Wu, Brett Theeler, Christine Siegel, Lisa Boris, Nancy Garren, Christine Bryla, Ann McCoy, Edjah Nduom, Kareem Zaghloul, Terri Armstrong, Mario Roederer, Mark Gilbert

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Abstract

s vi137 NEURO-ONCOLOGY • NOVEMBER 2018 suppress immunity, but rather, heightened interferon-(IFN)-γ reactivity. Addition of ICIs (to animals primed with RNA-NPs) augmented periph-eral/intratumoral PD-1+CD8+ cells and mediated synergistic anti-tumor efficacy in settings where ICIs alone did not confer therapeutic benefit. These synergistic effects were mediated by type-I-interferon released from PD-L1+ plasmacytoid dendritic-cells. In translational studies, personal-ized mRNA-NPs (from whole tumor-transcriptome) were safe and active in a client-owned canine with a spontaneous malignant glioma. In this patient, RNA-NPs elicited robust immunologic activity with increased percentages of activated PD-L1+ APCs and IFNγ+CD8+ cells. CONCLUSION: RNA-NPs elicit widespread immune activation concomitant with inducible PD-L1 expression on intratumoral APCs that can be therapeutically exploited. Since RNA-NPs bypass cost/complexity of cellular thera-peutics, are amenable to central distribution, and can be made within days of tumor resection, these formulations can be expeditiously translated as biomodulators of GBM immunogenicity.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)vi137-vi137
JournalNeuro-Oncology
Volume20
Issue numbersuppl_6
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2018

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