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DT388IL3 Fusion Protein in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndromes

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of DT388IL3 in Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, sponsored by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-04-23.

Sponsored by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
11
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

RATIONALE: Combinations of biological substances in DT388IL3 fusion protein may be able to carry cancer killing substances directly to the cancer cells.

PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of DT388IL3 fusion protein and to see how well it works in treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndromes.

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OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the maximum tolerated dose of DT_388IL3 fusion protein in patients with refractory or relapsed or poor-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).
  • Define the dose-limiting toxicities of this regimen in these patients.
  • Measure the pharmacokinetics of this regimen in these patients.
  • Measure the immune responses in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Evaluate response and correlate with disease type (relapsed/refractory or poor-risk de novo AML or high-risk MDS), pretreatment marrow blast percentage, and leukemia blast interleukin-3 receptor density.

OUTLINE: This is a phase I, multicenter, dose-escalation study followed by a phase II, open-label study.

  • Phase I: Patients receive DT_388IL3 IV over 15 minutes daily for 5 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of DT_388IL3 until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.

  • Phase II: An additional 15 patients receive DT_388IL3 at the MTD as in phase I. Patients undergo serum and blast collection periodically for laboratory studies, including analysis of expression of interleukin-3 receptors and anti-DT_388IL3 antibodies at baseline. Samples are also analyzed by immunoenzyme assays and flow cytometry.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for up to 5 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 50 patients will be accrued for this study.

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Conditions studied

  • Leukemia
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm

Keywords

  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22)
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12)
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22)
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22)
  • recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia
  • secondary acute myeloid leukemia
  • untreated adult acute myeloid leukemia
  • de novo myelodysplastic syndromes
  • previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes
  • secondary myelodysplastic syndromes
  • blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm
  • plasmacytoid dendritic cell leukemia
  • CD123+
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In context

Leukemia

5,441 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia; 636 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 11 is below the median of 38 across 4,247 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia.

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Lead sponsor

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 990 studies on the registry; 201 are open to participants now.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Diagnosis of 1 of the following:

    • Histologically or morphologically confirmed acute myeloid leukemia (AML), meeting 1 of the following criteria:

      • Relapsed or refractory AML after treatment with ≥ 1 prior conventional induction therapy

        • Patients in early first relapse must not have a matched donor available and/or be ineligible for allogeneic stem cell transplantation
      • Poor-risk AML, as defined by any of the following criteria:

        • Treatment-related AML, unless associated with favorable cytogenetics (e.g., inversion 16, t[16;16], t[8;21], t[15;17]), and ineligible for stem cell transplantation
        • Antecedent hematological disease (e.g., myelodysplastic syndromes, myelofibrosis, or polycythemia vera) that evolved to AML (≥ 20% blasts) and ineligible for stem cell transplantation
        • De novo AML (must be > 70 years of age)
        • AML with unfavorable cytogenetics (e.g., abnormalities of chromosomes -7, -5, 7q-, or 5q-; complex [≥ 3] abnormalities; or abnormalities of 11q23, excluding t[9;11], t[9;22], inversion 3, t[3;3], and t[6;9]), regardless of age, and ineligible for allogeneic stem cell transplantation
    • High-risk myelodysplastic syndromes diagnosed by morphologic, histochemical, or cell surface marker criteria

      • Resistant or intolerant to chemotherapy
      • Ineligible for or unwilling to undergo immediate allogeneic stem cell transplantation
  • Bone marrow index (i.e., percent cellularity × percent blasts) ≤ 40% at time of treatment
  • No active CNS leukemia

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

  • ECOG performance status 0-2
  • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
  • ALT and AST \< 2.5 times upper limit of normal
  • Albumin ≥ 3 mg/dL
  • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
  • LVEF ≥ 50%
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 2 weeks after completion of study treatment
  • No complicated medical or psychiatric problems that would preclude study compliance
  • No concurrent serious uncontrolled infection or disseminated intravascular coagulation
  • No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
  • No allergies to diphtheria toxin
  • No requirement for oxygen

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No other concurrent antineoplastic drugs
  • No concurrent radiotherapy
  • No concurrent corticosteroids as antiemetics
  • No concurrent hematopoietic growth factors (e.g., epoetin alfa, interleukin-11, filgrastim [G-CSF], or sargramostim [GM-CSF])
  • No concurrent intravenous immunoglobins
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
11 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    SL-401

    Patients will be treated with a maximum of five doses of approximately 15min IV infusions of DT388IL3/SL-401 over a ten day period at a maximum of once daily.

    Drug: DT388IL3

Interventions

  • DrugDT388IL3

    Intravenously via a 3 cc plastic syringe as a 15 minute bolus infusion daily for five days.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Response Rate (CR+PR+SD): Percentage of Participants Experiencing Response

    Patients will be treated with a maximum of five doses of approximately 15min IV infusions of DT388IL3/SL-401 over a ten day period at a maximum of once daily. Response to Treatment will be evaluated as follows: Complete response (CR): patient has a normal whole blood count; platelets with absent blasts in peripheral blood or marrow; no evidence of nodal involvement or liver/spleen involvement; no skin lesion involvement. Partial Response (PR); patient experiences a decrease of 50% or more in marrow blasts and skin lesions; and there is a decrease in the size of the nodes/liver/spleen. Stable Disease (SD); failure to achieve at least PR, and there is no evidence of progression for 2 months. Failure: death during treatment or disease progression characterized by an increase in the percentage bone marrow blast or an increase in skin or node/liver or spleen size. Reported is the percentage of participants experiencing either CR, PR or SD.

    Time frame: From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 2 months

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Results

Posted Apr 23, 2019

Participant flow

Participant flow — Overall Study
MilestoneSL-401
Started11
Completed11
Not completed0

Outcome measures

PrimaryOverall Response Rate (CR+PR+SD): Percentage of Participants Experiencing Response

Patients will be treated with a maximum of five doses of approximately 15min IV infusions of DT388IL3/SL-401 over a ten day period at a maximum of once daily. Response to Treatment will be evaluated as follows: Complete response (CR): patient has a normal whole blood count; platelets with absent blasts in peripheral blood or marrow; no evidence of nodal involvement or liver/spleen involvement; no skin lesion involvement. Partial Response (PR); patient experiences a decrease of 50% or more in marrow blasts and skin lesions; and there is a decrease in the size of the nodes/liver/spleen. Stable Disease (SD); failure to achieve at least PR, and there is no evidence of progression for 2 months. Failure: death during treatment or disease progression characterized by an increase in the percentage bone marrow blast or an increase in skin or node/liver or spleen size. Reported is the percentage of participants experiencing either CR, PR or SD.

Time frame:
From date of randomization until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 2 months
Reported as:
Number · percentage of participants
Overall Response Rate (CR+PR+SD): Percentage of Participants Experiencing Response
percentage of participantsSL-401
Overall Response Rate (CR+PR+SD): Percentage of Participants Experiencing Response81.8

Adverse events

Collected over 10 days. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
SL-4010/11 (0%)0/11 (0%)11/11 (100%)
Most frequent other events
Most frequent other events
EventSL-401
ASTHepatobiliary disorders4/11
ThrombocytopeniaBlood and lymphatic system disorders4/11
ALTHepatobiliary disorders3/11
NeutropeniaBlood and lymphatic system disorders1/11
HyponatremiaBlood and lymphatic system disorders1/11

Baseline characteristics

Patients with BPDCN treated with SL-401.

Age, Categorical
Age, Categorical(Participants)SL-401
<=18 years0
Between 18 and 65 years1
>=65 years10
Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)SL-401
Mean68 (40 to 77)
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)SL-401
Female0
Male11
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)SL-401
American Indian or Alaska Native0
Asian0
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander0
Black or African American0
White11
More than one race0
Unknown or Not Reported0
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(participants)SL-401
United States11
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Study locations

1 site
  • UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Dallas, Texas 75390, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Frankel AE, Woo JH, Ahn C, Pemmaraju N, Medeiros BC, Carraway HE, Frankfurt O, Forman SJ, Yang XA, Konopleva M, Garnache-Ottou F, Angelot-Delettre F, Brooks C, Szarek M, Rowinsky E. Activity of SL-401, a targeted therapy directed to interleukin-3 receptor, in blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm patients. Blood. 2014 Jul 17;124(3):385-92. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-04-566737. Epub 2014 May 23. PubMed 24859366 ↗

Study documents

  • Protocol and statistical analysis plan · Nov 22, 2016

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Apr 23, 2019, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00397579
Lead sponsor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 9, 2006
Start date
May 2013
Primary completion
Jul 27, 2017
Completion
Jul 27, 2017
Results posted
Apr 23, 2019
Last update
Apr 23, 2019

Study contacts

Arthur E. Frankel, MD
principal investigator · UT Southwestern Medical Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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