Ibrutinib therapy releases leukemic surface IgM from antigen drive in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
Ibrutinib therapy releases leukemic surface IgM from antigen drive in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
Purpose: in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), disease progression associates with surface IgM (sIgM) levels and signaling capacity. These are variably down-modulated in vivo and recover in vitro, suggesting a reversible influence of tissue-located antigen. Therapeutic targeting of sIgM function via ibrutinib, an inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), causes inhibition and tumor cell redistribution into the blood, with significant clinical benefit. Circulating CLL cells persist in an inhibited state, offering a tool to investigate the effects of drug on BTK-inhibited sIgM.
Experimental Design: we investigated the consequences of ibrutinib therapy on levels and function of sIgM in circulating leukemic cells of CLL patients.
Results: at week 1, there was a significant increase of sIgM expression (64% increase from pre-therapy) on CLL cells either recently released from tissue or persisting in blood. In contrast, sIgD and a range of other receptors, did not change. SIgM levels remained higher than pre-therapy in the following 3 months, despite gradual cell size reduction and ongoing autophagy and apoptotic activity. Conversely, IgD and other receptors did not increase and gradually declined. Recovered sIgM was fully N-glycosylated, another feature of escape from antigen, and expression did not increase further during culture in vitro. The sIgM was fully capable of mediating phosphorylation of SYK which lies upstream of BTK in the B-Cell Receptor pathway.
Conclusions: this specific IgM increase in patients underpins the key role of tissue-based engagement with antigen in CLL, confirms the inhibitory action of ibrutinib, and reveals dynamic adaptability of CLL cells to precision monotherapy.
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Drennan, Samantha J
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D'Avola, Annalisa
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Tracy, Ian
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Trentin, Livio
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Steele, Andrew J.
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Stevenson, Freda K.
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Forconi, Francesco
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15 April 2019
Drennan, Samantha J
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D'Avola, Annalisa
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Tracy, Ian
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Steele, Andrew J.
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Packham, Graham
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Stevenson, Freda K.
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Forconi, Francesco
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Drennan, Samantha J, Chiodin, Giorgia, D'Avola, Annalisa, Tracy, Ian, Johnson, Peter W., Trentin, Livio, Steele, Andrew J., Packham, Graham, Stevenson, Freda K. and Forconi, Francesco
(2019)
Ibrutinib therapy releases leukemic surface IgM from antigen drive in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients.
Clinical Cancer Research, 25 (8), .
(doi:10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-1286).
Abstract
Purpose: in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), disease progression associates with surface IgM (sIgM) levels and signaling capacity. These are variably down-modulated in vivo and recover in vitro, suggesting a reversible influence of tissue-located antigen. Therapeutic targeting of sIgM function via ibrutinib, an inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK), causes inhibition and tumor cell redistribution into the blood, with significant clinical benefit. Circulating CLL cells persist in an inhibited state, offering a tool to investigate the effects of drug on BTK-inhibited sIgM.
Experimental Design: we investigated the consequences of ibrutinib therapy on levels and function of sIgM in circulating leukemic cells of CLL patients.
Results: at week 1, there was a significant increase of sIgM expression (64% increase from pre-therapy) on CLL cells either recently released from tissue or persisting in blood. In contrast, sIgD and a range of other receptors, did not change. SIgM levels remained higher than pre-therapy in the following 3 months, despite gradual cell size reduction and ongoing autophagy and apoptotic activity. Conversely, IgD and other receptors did not increase and gradually declined. Recovered sIgM was fully N-glycosylated, another feature of escape from antigen, and expression did not increase further during culture in vitro. The sIgM was fully capable of mediating phosphorylation of SYK which lies upstream of BTK in the B-Cell Receptor pathway.
Conclusions: this specific IgM increase in patients underpins the key role of tissue-based engagement with antigen in CLL, confirms the inhibitory action of ibrutinib, and reveals dynamic adaptability of CLL cells to precision monotherapy.
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Ibrutinib therapy releases leukemic surface IgM from antigen drive in chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients
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Accepted/In Press date: 29 October 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 October 2018
Published date: 15 April 2019
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/425691
ISSN: 1078-0432
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