Seipel, Katja; Abbühl, Mariesol; Bacher, Vera; Nilius, Henning; Daskalakis, Michael; Pabst, Thomas (2023). Clinical Impact of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in CD-19 on Treatment Outcome in FMC63-CAR-T Cell Therapy. Cancers, 15(11) MDPI AG 10.3390/cancers15113058
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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is effective in patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (r/r DLBCL) with response rates of 63-84% and complete response observed in 43-54%. Common germline variants of the target antigen CD19 may elicit different responses to CAR-T cell therapy. The CD19 gene single nucleotide polymorphism rs2904880 encoding leucine or valine at amino acid position 174 of the CD19 antigen was prevalent in 51% of the studied DLBCL patients. In a retrospective comparative analysis of clinical outcome, there were significant differences in CD19 L174 versus V174 carriers: the median time of progression-free survival was 22 vs. 6 months (p = 0.06), overall survival was 37 vs. 8 months (p = 0.11), complete response rates were 51% vs. 30% (p = 0.05), and refractory disease rates were 14% vs. 32% (p = 0.04). The single nucleotide polymorphism in CD19 was shown to influence the treatment outcome in FMC63-anti-CD19-CAR-T cell therapy, and the CD19 minor allele L174 predicted a favorable treatment outcome.