Immunotherapy against several tumors, such as lung cancer, including NSCLC

• US 9,943,579 B2
• Filed: 06/30/2017
• Issued: 04/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH (Immatics NV)
• Original Assignee: Immatics Biotechnologies GmbH (Immatics NV)
• Inventors: Weinschenk, Toni, Walter, Steffen, Fritsche, Jens, Song, Colette, Singh, Harpreet
• Primary Examiner(s): Skowronek, Karlheinz R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Niebauer, Ronald T
• Application Number:
  US15/639,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20170319675A1
• Time in Patent Office: 291 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2039/5158 Antigen-pulsed cells, e.g. T-cells
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2039/572 cytotoxic response
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 35/17 Lymphocytes; B-cells; T-cells; Natural killer cells; Interferon-activated or cytokine-activated lymphocytes when activated by a specific antigen A61K39/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 38/1709 from mammals
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 39/0011 Cancer antigens
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 45/06 Mixtures of active ingredients without chemical characterisation, e.g. antiphlogistics and cardiaca
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 35/00 Antineoplastic agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 37/04 Immunostimulants
• CPC Class Codes: C07K 14/7051 T-cell receptor (TcR)-CD3 complex
• CPC Class Codes: C07K 7/06 having 5 to 11 amino acids
• CPC Class Codes: C07K 7/08 having 12 to 20 amino acids gastrins C07K14/595; somatostatins C07K14/655; melanotropins C07K14/68
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 2502/11 blood or immune system cells
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 5/0636 T lymphocytes
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 5/0638 Cytotoxic T lymphocytes [CTL] or lymphokine activated killer cells [LAK]
• CPC Class Codes: C12N 9/6491 Matrix metalloproteases [MMP's], e.g. interstitial collagenase (3.4.24.7); Stromelysins (3.4.24.17; 3.2.1.22); Matrilysin (3.4.24.23)
• CPC Class Codes: C12Y 304/24065 Macrophage elastase (3.4.24.65), i.e. metalloelastase

Abstract

A method of treating a patient who has non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), lung cancer, gastric cancer, and/or glioblastoma includes administering to said patient a composition containing a population of activated T cells that selectively recognize cells in the patient that aberrantly express a peptide. A pharmaceutical composition contains activated T cells that selectively recognize cells in a patient that aberrantly express a peptide, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, in which the T cells bind to the peptide in a complex with an MHC class I molecule, and the composition is for treating the patient who has NSCLC, lung cancer, gastric cancer, and/or glioblastoma. A method of treating a patient who has NSCLC, lung cancer, gastric cancer, and/or glioblastoma includes administering to said patient a composition comprising a peptide in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, thereby inducing a T-cell response to the NSCLC, lung cancer, gastric cancer, and/or glioblastoma.

Claims

1. A method of eliciting an immune response in a patient who has non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), lung cancer, and/or gastric cancer, comprising administering to said patient a composition comprising a population of activated T cells that selectively recognize the cancer cells in the patient that aberrantly express a peptide consisting of the amino acid sequence of KIQEMQHFL (SEQ ID NO:

2), wherein the peptide is in a complex with an MHC molecule, and wherein the activated T cells are cytotoxic T cells produced by contacting T cells, in vitro, with an antigen presenting cell that expresses the peptide in a complex with an MHC class I molecule on the surface of the antigen presenting cell, for a period of time sufficient to activate said T cell specifically against the peptide.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the T cells are autologous to the patient.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the T cells are obtained from a healthy donor.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the T cells are derived from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes or peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising expanding T cells in vitro.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the MHC molecule is a class I molecule.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the composition further comprises an adjuvant.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the adjuvant is selected from the group consisting of imiquimod, resiguimod, GM-CSP, cyclophosphamide, Sunitinib, bevacizumab, interferon-alpha, CpG-containing oligonucleotides and derivatives, poly-(I:

C) and derivatives, RNA, sildenafil, and particulate formations with poly(lactid co-glycolid) (PLG) and virosomes.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the antigen presenting cell is infected with a recombinant virus expressing the peptide.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the antigen presenting cell is a dendritic cell or a macrophage.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising stimulating the activated T cells in the presence of an anti-CD28 antibody and IL-12 to clonally expand the T cells.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the population of activated T cells comprises CD8-positive cells.