T lymphocytes are crucial for antiviral responses and provide a promising repertoire for potential therapies of viral diseases such as cytomegalovirus(CMV)infection1 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-Co...T lymphocytes are crucial for antiviral responses and provide a promising repertoire for potential therapies of viral diseases such as cytomegalovirus(CMV)infection1 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2.^(2) CMV-related diseases occur once the host immune system is impaired or lacks a protective repertoire of virus-specific T lymphocytes.3 Adoptive transfer of T-cell receptor(TCR)-engineered T cells(TCR-Ts)provides an encouraging alternative treatment option for patients with CMV reactivation.^(4) However,generating TCR-Ts requires the identification of epitope-specific and functional TCR pairs.Modern single-cell sequencing techniques open up the ability to unravel TCR repertoires,^(5 )which offers a potential opportunity to screen functional TCR pairs for TCR-T therapy.Here,we report an efficient approach that combines ex vivo CD8+T-cell stimulation with single-cell RNA and TCR V(D)J sequencing to identify CMV-specific TCRs for generating TCR-Ts.展开更多
基金supported by the Science,Technology and Innovation Commission of Shenzhen Municipality under grant No.JCYJ20170303151334808 and grant No.JSGG20180508152912700The first author would like to acknowledge financial support from the China Scholarship Council(CSC)(grant No.201904910476).
文摘T lymphocytes are crucial for antiviral responses and provide a promising repertoire for potential therapies of viral diseases such as cytomegalovirus(CMV)infection1 and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2.^(2) CMV-related diseases occur once the host immune system is impaired or lacks a protective repertoire of virus-specific T lymphocytes.3 Adoptive transfer of T-cell receptor(TCR)-engineered T cells(TCR-Ts)provides an encouraging alternative treatment option for patients with CMV reactivation.^(4) However,generating TCR-Ts requires the identification of epitope-specific and functional TCR pairs.Modern single-cell sequencing techniques open up the ability to unravel TCR repertoires,^(5 )which offers a potential opportunity to screen functional TCR pairs for TCR-T therapy.Here,we report an efficient approach that combines ex vivo CD8+T-cell stimulation with single-cell RNA and TCR V(D)J sequencing to identify CMV-specific TCRs for generating TCR-Ts.
