Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy Clinical Trial
Official title:
Dynamics of T Cell Expression of Immune Checkpoint Molecules in Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare viral infection of the central nervous system (CNS) occurring in immunocompromised patients. Recovery of JC virus (JCV) specific T cell immune responses is the only available therapeutic option. JCV may use immune checkpoint inhibitory pathways to evade immune responses. The aim of this project is to determine whether T cell expression of immune checkpoint molecules is correlated to antiviral T cell responses, control of JCV replication and PML outcome. Immune checkpoint blockade by reversing T cell exhaustion may represent a therapeutic perspective for PML.
PML is a devastating orphan disease of the CNS due to the reactivation of JCV in immunocompromised patients. Given the lack of drugs controlling JCV replication, initiation of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients or cessation of immunosuppressive therapies in others, and subsequent recovery of JCV-specific T cell immune responses remains to date the only available therapeutic option. Promoting antiviral immune responses may improve the control of viral replication and the outcome of this severe disease. Immune checkpoint molecules such as PD-1 are inhibitory receptors expressed on T cells that trigger inhibitory signaling pathways, limiting effector immune responses in cancer and chronic infections. Immune checkpoint inhibitory pathways implicated in evading immune responses may be at play in PML. Immune checkpoint blockade using monoclonal antibodies targeting PD-1, by reversing T cell exhaustion, has been suggested as a therapeutic perspective for PML. More insights in the dynamics of immune checkpoint molecules expressed by T cells in PML patients are needed to pave the way for a therapeutic study. The aim here is to determine whether T cell expression of a broad range of immune checkpoint molecules, and its dynamics, correlates with the generation of antiviral of immune responses, the control of JCV replication and PML outcome. To this end the investigators will recruit 15 PML patients from 4 teaching hospitals in the South West of France and assess at PML diagnosis and 1, 3 and 6 months after, the expression of immune checkpoint molecules on circulating T cells, ex vivo specific immune responses against a JCV peptide library, JC viral load in cerebrospinal fluid, blood and urine, and clinical and neuroradiological outcomes. ;
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