Splicing-Mediated Antigen Escape from Immunotherapy for B-cell Malignancies

In this issue of Blood Cancer Discovery, Zheng and colleagues identify that alternative RNA splicing of CD22 within B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia can result in antigen escape from CD22-targeted immunotherapies. Drug-resistant isoforms of CD22 exist within leukemic cells pretreatment and can influence response to the CD22-directed antibody–drug conjugate inotuzumab ozogamicin, the immunotoxin moxetumomab pasudotox, as well as anti-CD22 chimeric antigen receptor T cells.

See related article by Zheng et al., p. 103 (7).