Table 1.

Integration sites within the malignant CAR T cells and their effect on expression of surrounding genes in patient 2

Insert mappingGenomic context and RNA sequencing
ChromosomeInsert site*StrandTranscriptional shadow, kbpGene same strand within shadow§Observed Log2 FC, malignancy CPM vs ProductCPMIn silico evidence of functional product#
chr1 26c145c520 18 FAM110D 7.01 FAM110D 
chr1 53c455c616 25 DMRTB1 12.20  
chr1 154c760c298 50    
chr1 184c030c856 60 TSEN15 0.66  
chr1 208c989c499 − 450    
chr1 214c453c094 40    
chr2 57c195c660 50    
chr2 62c309c188 − 40    
chr3 99c637c483 100 COL8A1 9.72 COL8A1 
chr3 111c596c609    
chr5 49c702c91 120 LINC01020 8.00  
chr6 12c023c195 120 HIVEP1 2.98 HIVEP1 
chr6 35c678c292 50 ARMC12 2.99  
chr6 90c251c539 − 50 BACH2 −0.17  
chr6 111c857c020 − 100 FYN 3.14 FYN 
chr6 141c455c746 40    
chr7 7c259c055 110 LOC101927354 5.93  
chr7 83c404c188 50    
chr7 143c289c731    
chr8 70c401c154 − 100 NCOA2 1.05  
chr9 36c557c687 100 MELK 1.30  
chr10 108c310c155 − 1000 LINC01435*** 11.07  
chr12 57c836c644 100    
chr21 19c588c904 100    
Insert mappingGenomic context and RNA sequencing
ChromosomeInsert site*StrandTranscriptional shadow, kbpGene same strand within shadow§Observed Log2 FC, malignancy CPM vs ProductCPMIn silico evidence of functional product#
chr1 26c145c520 18 FAM110D 7.01 FAM110D 
chr1 53c455c616 25 DMRTB1 12.20  
chr1 154c760c298 50    
chr1 184c030c856 60 TSEN15 0.66  
chr1 208c989c499 − 450    
chr1 214c453c094 40    
chr2 57c195c660 50    
chr2 62c309c188 − 40    
chr3 99c637c483 100 COL8A1 9.72 COL8A1 
chr3 111c596c609    
chr5 49c702c91 120 LINC01020 8.00  
chr6 12c023c195 120 HIVEP1 2.98 HIVEP1 
chr6 35c678c292 50 ARMC12 2.99  
chr6 90c251c539 − 50 BACH2 −0.17  
chr6 111c857c020 − 100 FYN 3.14 FYN 
chr6 141c455c746 40    
chr7 7c259c055 110 LOC101927354 5.93  
chr7 83c404c188 50    
chr7 143c289c731    
chr8 70c401c154 − 100 NCOA2 1.05  
chr9 36c557c687 100 MELK 1.30  
chr10 108c310c155 − 1000 LINC01435*** 11.07  
chr12 57c836c644 100    
chr21 19c588c904 100    

Insertion sites within the genome, size of transcriptional shadow, and impact on exonic expression of surrounding genes are shown. CAR19 insertions in the malignancy were detected by μ insertion analysis and confirmed on whole-genome sequencing by searching alignment files for paired-end split reads between the CAR19 “contig” and regions of the autosomes, excluding calls that did not indicate a full-length insertion of CAR19. Transcriptional shadow was directly visualized using the Integrative Genomics Viewer - Broad Institute. Expression of genes within the transcriptional shadow and on the same strand was evaluated based on total exon counts, and functional impact of intronic insertion sites was estimated by determining whether missing exons interrupted the ORF based on gene annotation. If open reading frame interruption was seen, in silico translation of the spliced product was performed (expasy.org) and compared with the wild-type (WT) protein sequence (www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/msa/clustalo/). If the resultant sequence retained the WT sequence (in-frame deletion), functional domains (uniprot.org) were evaluated to estimate the likelihood of the altered product retaining activity.

chr, chromosome; FC, fold change; MalignancyCPM, counts per million in malignant T cells; ProductCPM, counts per million in CD4 CAR T cells from the product.

*

Insert site indicates the nucleotide position of the insert on the chromosome.

Strand (+ or −) indicates the orientation of the transgene.

Transcriptional shadow indicates the presence and length of transcriptional readthrough seen in kilobase pairs as directly visualized in IGV.

§

Gene same strand within shadow indicates the name of genes potentially impacted by the transcriptional readthrough seen.

Observed Log2FC is the total increase in transcription within the gene affected by the transcriptional shadow including exonic, intronic, and out-of-frame sequences compared with the CAR T-cell product expressed as log2 fold change.

#

In silico evidence of functional product indicates genes with increased functional protein compared with the CAR T-cell product based on splicing analysis.

**

LINC01435* is long noncoding RNA not associated with malignancy.

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