Wilms tumor gene WT1 peptide-based immunotherapy induced a minimal response in a patient with advanced therapy-resistant multiple myeloma

Int J Hematol. 2007 Dec;86(5):414-7. doi: 10.1007/BF02983998.

Abstract

The product of the Wilms tumor gene, WT1, is a universal tumor antigen. We performed WT1 peptide-based immunotherapy for a patient with multiple myeloma (MM). This patient was a 57-year-old woman with chemotherapy-resistant MM (Bence Jones kappa type). The patient received weekly intradermal injections of an HLA-A*2402-restricted 9-mer WT1 peptide emulsified with Montanide ISA 51 adjuvant for 12 weeks and achieved a minimal response according to European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation criteria without experiencing systemic adverse effects. The proportion of myeloma cells in the bone marrow (BM) decreased from 85% to 25%, and the amount of M protein in the urine decreased from 3.6 to 0.6 g/day after WT1 vaccination. Furthermore, a bone scintigram showed an improvement after the vaccination. As for immunologic parameters, the frequency of WT1 tetramer-positive cells among CD8+ T-cells, which was higher than in healthy donors, temporarily decreased at weeks 4 and 8 but increased at week 12, whereas the frequency of WT1 peptide-responding CD107a/b+ cells among WT1 tetramer-positive T-cells increased from 27.0% to 38.6% after the vaccination. After WT1 vaccination, the frequency of CXCR4+ cells among WT1 tetramer-positive T-cells increased in the BM, where stromal cells expressed the ligand for CXCR4, stromal-derived factor 1 (SDF-1), but decreased in the peripheral blood (PB), implying that WT1-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes had migrated from the PB to the BM, a tumor site.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone Marrow / immunology
  • CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes / immunology
  • Cancer Vaccines / immunology
  • Cancer Vaccines / therapeutic use*
  • Chemokine CXCL12 / immunology
  • Chemokine CXCL12 / metabolism
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm / drug effects
  • Drug Resistance, Neoplasm / immunology*
  • Female
  • HLA-A Antigens / immunology
  • HLA-A24 Antigen
  • Humans
  • Lymphocyte Count
  • Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 1 / immunology
  • Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 1 / metabolism
  • Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2 / immunology
  • Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2 / metabolism
  • Mannitol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Mannitol / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Multiple Myeloma / blood
  • Multiple Myeloma / immunology
  • Multiple Myeloma / therapy*
  • Multiple Myeloma / urine
  • Myeloma Proteins / immunology
  • Myeloma Proteins / urine
  • Oleic Acids / therapeutic use*
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Receptors, CXCR4 / immunology
  • Receptors, CXCR4 / metabolism
  • Remission Induction
  • Time Factors
  • Vaccination*
  • WT1 Proteins / immunology
  • WT1 Proteins / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • CXCL12 protein, human
  • Cancer Vaccines
  • Chemokine CXCL12
  • HLA-A Antigens
  • HLA-A*24:02 antigen
  • HLA-A24 Antigen
  • Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 1
  • Lysosomal-Associated Membrane Protein 2
  • Myeloma Proteins
  • Oleic Acids
  • Receptors, CXCR4
  • WT1 Proteins
  • montanide ISA 51
  • multiple myeloma M-proteins
  • Mannitol