Celiac Disease Clinical Trial
Official title:
Phase I Study of the Humanized Mik-Beta-1 Monoclonal Antibody Directed Toward IL-2/IL-15R Beta (CD122) That Blocks IL-15 Action In Patients With Refractory Celiac Disease
Background:
- Celiac disease is a condition where the immune system attacks the cells of the small
intestine. The intestine becomes inflamed and cannot digest food properly. The disease most
often causes a reaction to foods that contain gluten. Most people can treat celiac disease
with a gluten-free diet. However, some people have digestion problems even on a gluten-free
diet. Researchers want to try a new antibody therapy for celiac disease. The treatment may
block the immune reaction that causes the disease. They will test this antibody in people who
have celiac disease that has not responded to a gluten-free diet.
Objectives:
- To see if antibody therapy is a safe and effective treatment for celiac disease that has
not responded to standard treatments.
Eligibility:
- Individuals at least 18 years of age who have been on a gluten-free diet for 6 to 12 months
but still have symptoms of celiac disease.
Design:
- Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood samples
will be collected. These samples will help determine if the specific antibody treatment
is likely to work.
- Before the start of the study, participants will have a biopsy of the small intestine.
- Participants will receive three doses of the study antibody as injections. These doses
will be given 3 weeks apart.
- Treatment will be monitored with blood tests and heart function tests. Participants will
also have a second small intestine biopsy within a week after the last dose of the
antibody.
Background:
- Celiac disease is a complex inflammatory disorder with an autoimmune component
characterized by a dramatic expansion of intraepithelial cytotoxic T lymphocytes that
usually regress on a gluten-free diet.
- It is estimated that approximately 10% of patients become refractory on a gluten-free
diet.
- A subgroup of refractory celiac disease is characterized by expansion of a highly
oligoclonal intraepithelial T-lymphocyte population that exhibits a high risk of
developing enteropathy associated T-cell lymphoma (EATL).
- There is presently no effective therapy for refractory celiac disease.
- A number of studies indicate that intestinal epithelial derived IL-15 plays a critical
role in the disrupted intraepithelial lymphocyte homeostasis and lymphomagenesis that
characterizes refractory celiac disease.
- A pivotal role for IL-15 in refractory celiac disease and EATL is further supported by
the finding that in two murine models of celiac disease the pathognomonic features were
reversed completely by administration of an antibody to CD122 (IL-2/IL-15R beta) that
blocks IL-15 transpresentation and action.
- A Phase I clinical trial in patients with T-cell LGL and hematocytopenia using the
monoclonal antibody, Hu-Mik-Beta-1 that blocks IL-15 action produced under cGMP
conditions by the BDP NCI has been completed in the Metabolism Branch, NCI at the
Clinical Center NIH.
Objectives:
Primary Objectives:
- Phase I trial to define the safety of Hu-Mik-Beta-1 infusions to 2 groups of patients
each with refractory celiac disease at escalating 0.5 (7 patients) and 1.0 (2 patients)
mg/kg doses.
- To define the clinical efficacy of Hu-Mik-Beta-1 infusions in 9 patients with refractory
celiac disease and to correlate these findings with celiac disease specific tests.
Secondary Objectives:
- Definition of the receptor saturation capacity on CD122 (IL-2/IL-15R beta) of
intravenously administered Hu-Mik-Beta-1 administered at 0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg body weight
to 2 groups of patients on three occasions separated by 3 weeks in patients with
refractory celiac disease.
- Determine the immunogenicity of intravenously administered Hu-Mik-Beta-1.
- Determine the effects of Hu-Mik-Beta-1 on the phenotype and the state of activation of
the elements of the cellular immune system in the circulation and in intestinal biopsies
with special focus on the cells implicated in the pathogenesis of celiac disease.
Eligibility:
- Patients with refractory celiac disease (RCD) defined by the following internationally
accepted criteria: persistent or recurrent symptoms (diarrhea, weight loss, and
abdominal pain) associated with intestinal damage characterized by partial to total
villous atrophy with intraepithelial lymphocytes (defined by >25 intraepithelial
lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells) despite strict adherence to a gluten-free diet for
6-12 months.
- Lack of antibodies to Hu-Mik-Beta-1.
- Patients are not to have circulating antibodies to tissue transglutaminase that are
greater than 10 assay units using recombinant human transglutaminase antibodies.
Design:
- Patients will be enrolled and treated at the Mayo Clinic with the University of Chicago
and the Clinical Center at the NIH involved as laboratory sites. This is a nonrandomized
openlabel phase I trial.
- In this phase I trial initial patients are enrolled to receive 0.5 mg/kg of
Hu-Mik-Beta-1 (3 patients). Patients receive Hu-Mik-Beta-1 every 3 weeks for a total of
3 doses (given on day 1, week 3 and week 6). At specific points in time the patients are
monitored (see below). If 1 or more of the 3 patients receiving 0.5 mg/kg of
Hu-Mik-Beta-1 experience a NCI CTCAE version 4.0 grade 3 or greater toxicity with the
exception of fatigue of >4days duration possibly, probably or definitely related to the
infusion of Hu-Mik-Beta-1, subject enrollment and dosing is stopped.
- At the completion of Week 9, the safety data are reviewed by the Principal Investigator
and DSMB. If the safety data in the 0.5 mg/kg cohort are acceptable, the Sponsor may
then enroll additional patients in doses greater than 0.5 mg/kg, evaluated in a similar
manner as the 0.5 mg/kg (e.g., 3 more patients to receive 1 mg/kg Hu-Mik-Beta-1 every 3
weeks for a total of 3 doses.
- Modification: Three subjects completed study dosing with 0.5mg/kg without serious
adverse events. Two subjects were then randomized to 1.0mg/kg dose and both experienced
serious adverse events with a possible connection to the agent. Subject 5 experienced an
event during the study, acute diverticulitis associated with free intraperitoneal air
treated with antibiotics with resolution. Subject 4 who also received 1.0 mg / kg
experienced a colon perforation many months after completing dosing associated with
severe constipation. These events were reviewed by the DSMP. It was determined that even
though direct cause and effect cannot be established because these occurred in subjects
treated with the 1.0mg/kg that dose escalation be abandoned and the study completed with
the lowest dose used 0.5mg/Kg. This modification proposed that any further subjects be
recruited only at the 0.5mg/kg dose in the remaining 4 subjects.
Monitoring:
- At specific points in time the following cardiac tests/studies are obtained, the results
reviewed prior to subsequent doses (at week 3 and week 6):
i. EKG at screening (Week -4 to 0), Day 1, Week 3, Week 6 and Week 7.
ii. CK-MB and troponin I at screening (Week -4 to 0), Day 1, Day 7, Week 3, Week 6, and Week
7.
In addition, an echocardiogram at screening (Week -4 to 0) and Week 7.
- FACS of peripheral blood mononuclear cells and peroral intestinal biopsies for
expression of NKG2D, CD94, NKG2C, NKG2A, NKb44, NKb30, CD158 and granzyme.
- Immune profiling on intestinal biopsies performed on the first infusion and one week +
or -3 days following the third infusion to analyze for CD8 T-cells, TCR gamma
rearrangements by multiplex PCR and fluorescence analysis of CD8 and CD3 expression,
high-resolution PCR expression for immunoglobulin gene rearrangement and for IEL, ERK
and JNK phosphorylation reflecting abnormal IEL activation.
- Furthermore, IL-15, IL-15R alpha and interferon alpha expression will be assayed in the
cells of the intestinal biopsy and in the serum.
- FACS of PBMCs with Hu-Mik-Beta-1 and Hu-Mik-Beta-3 to define saturation of CD122
(IL2/IL-15R beta).
Endpoints:
- Complete clinical response and by clinical biochemical results at the 20-week time
point.
- Secondary partial response, duration of response, toxicities, immunogenicity of
Hu-Mik-Beta- 1.
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