Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Depletion of central memory CD8+ T cells might impede the antitumor therapeutic effect of Mogamulizumab

  • Yuka Maeda,
  • Hisashi Wada,
  • Daisuke Sugiyama,
  • Takuro Saito,
  • Takuma Irie,
  • Kota Itahashi,
  • Kodai Minoura,
  • Susumu Suzuki,
  • Takashi Kojima,
  • Kazuhiro Kakimi,
  • Jun Nakajima,
  • Takeru Funakoshi,
  • Shinsuke Iida,
  • Mikio Oka,
  • Teppei Shimamura,
  • Toshihiko Doi,
  • Yuichiro Doki,
  • Eiichi Nakayama,
  • Ryuzo Ueda,
  • Hiroyoshi Nishikawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27574-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Elimination of regulatory T cells via the anti-CCR4 monoclonal antibody, mogamulizumab, is expected to augment anti-tumour immune response. Authors show here that although regulatory T cell targeting is successful, clinical improvement remains minimal in patients with solid tumours due to concomitant and unintended depletion of central memory CD8+ T cells.