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Author: Tsoumani, Marina ; Sprikkelman, Aline B ; Pongracic, Jacqueline A ; Hampel, Frank C ; Johnston, Douglas T ; Burks, A Wesley ; Nilsson, Caroline ; Dorsey, Morna J ; Jones, Stacie M ; Mansfield, Lyndon E ; Vitalpur, Girish ; Casale, Thomas B ; O'B Hourihane, Jonathan ; Sher, Ellen R ; Beyer, Kirsten ; Bird, J Andrew ; Shreffler, Wayne G ; Greiner, Alexander N ; Sharma, Vibha ; Chong, Hey Jin ; Sher, Lawrence ; Sharma, Hemant P ; Jeong, David K ; Kachru, Rita ; Fritz, Stephen B ; Oude Elberink, Joanna N G ; Varshney, Pooja ; du Toit, George ; Lanser, Bruce J ; Carr, Tara F ; Sindher, Sayantani B ; Spergel, Jonathan M ; Portnoy, Jay M ; Yang, William H ; Kim, Edwin H ; Siri, Dareen ; Anagnostou, Aikaterini ; Fernández-Rivas, Montserrat ; Leonard, Stephanie A ; Vereda, Andrea ; Petroni, Daniel H ; Zubeldia, José Manuel ; Assa'ad, Amal H ; Wang, Julie ; Adelman, Daniel C ; Ciaccio, Christina E ; Smith, Alex ; Ibáñez, Maria Dolores ; Carr, Warner W ; Fineman, Stanley M ; Vickery, Brian P ; Maier, Mary C ; Ohayon, Jason A ; Ryan, Robert ; Sanders, Georgiana M ; Rupp, Ned T ; Muraro, Antonella ; Ben-Shoshan, Moshe ; Sussman, Gordon L ; Rachid, Rima ; Greos, Leon S ; Blümchen, Katharina
BACKGROUNDThe randomized, controlled PALISADE trial demonstrated the benefit of daily oral immunotherapy with Peanut (Arachis Hypogaea) allergen powder-dnfp (PTAH, formerly AR101) in peanut-allergic children and adolescents.OBJECTIVEARC004, the open-label follow-on study to PALISADE, used 5 dosing cohorts to explore PTAH treatment beyond 1 year and alternative dosing regimens in peanut-allergic individuals.METHODSActive arm (PTAH-continuing) PALISADE participants who tolerated 300-mg peanut protein at the exit double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge and placebo arm (PTAH-naive) participants could enter ARC004. PTAH-continuing participants were assigned to receive daily (cohorts 1 and 3A) or non-daily (cohorts 2, 3B, and 3C) dosing regimens; PTAH-naive participants were built up to 300 mg/d PTAH, followed by maintenance dosing. At study completion, participants underwent an exit double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge with doses up to 2000 mg peanut protein. Data were assessed using descriptive statistics.RESULTSOverall, 358 (87.5%) eligible participants (4-17 years) entered ARC004 (PTAH-continuing, n = 256; PTAH-naive, n = 102). Among PTAH-continuing participants, exposure-adjusted adverse event rates were 12.94 to 17.54/participant-year and 25.95 to 42.49/participant-year in daily and non-daily dosing cohorts, respectively; most participants (83%) experienced mild or moderate adverse events. Daily dosing cohorts appeared to have higher desensitization rates than non-daily dosing cohorts. Of all PTAH-continuing cohorts, cohort 3A had the longest daily dosing duration and the highest desensitization rates. Changes in immune markers with PTAH continuation demonstrated ongoing immunomodulation. Outcomes in PTAH-naive participants mirrored those of the PALISADE active arm.CONCLUSIONSContinued daily PTAH treatment beyond 1 year showed sustained safety and efficacy. Ongoing immunomodulation was observed during the second year of treatment.