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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2015

Suppression of IL-7-dependent Effector T-cell Expansion by Multipotent Adult Progenitor Cells and PGE2.

James L Reading, Bart Vaes, Caroline Hull, Shereen Sabbah, Thomas Hayday, Nancy S Wang, Anthony DiPiero, Nicholas A Lehman, Jen M Taggart, Fiona Carty and 5 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

James L ReadingDepartment of Immunobiology, King's College London, London, UK. Electronic address: James.reading@kcl.ac.uk.
Bart VaesRegenesys Ltd., Leuven, Belgium.
Caroline HullDepartment of Immunobiology, King's College London, London, UK.
Shereen SabbahDepartment of Immunobiology, King's College London, London, UK.
Thomas HaydayDepartment of Immunobiology, King's College London, London, UK.
Nancy S WangAthersys Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Anthony DiPieroAthersys Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Nicholas A LehmanAthersys Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Jen M TaggartAthersys Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Fiona CartyDepartment of Biology, Institute of Immunology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
Karen EnglishDepartment of Biology, Institute of Immunology, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
Jef PinxterenRegenesys Ltd., Leuven, Belgium.
Robert DeansAthersys Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Anthony E TingAthersys Inc, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Timothy I M TreeDepartment of Immunobiology, King's College London, London, UK; NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK.
Athersys (United States) · USKing's College London · GBNational University of Ireland, Maynooth · IE

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/J006742/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T-cell depletion therapy is used to prevent acute allograft rejection, treat autoimmunity and create space for bone marrow or hematopoietic cell transplantation. The evolved response to T-cell loss is a transient increase in IL-7 that drives compensatory homeostatic proliferation (HP) of mature T cells. Paradoxically, the exaggerated form of this process that occurs following lymphodepletion expands effector T-cells, often causing loss of immunological tolerance that results in rapid graft rejection, autoimmunity, and exacerbated graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). While standard immune suppression is unable to treat these pathologies, growing evidence suggests that manipulating the incipient process of HP increases allograft survival, prevents autoimmunity, and markedly reduces GVHD. Multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPC) are a clinical grade immunomodulatory cell therapy known to alter γ-chain cytokine responses in T-cells. Herein, we demonstrate that MAPC regulate HP of human T-cells, prevent the expansion of Th1, Th17, and Th22 effectors, and block the development of pathogenic allograft responses. This occurs via IL-1β-primed secretion of PGE2 and activates T-cell intrinsic regulatory mechanisms (SOCS2, GADD45A). These data provide proof-of-principle that HP of human T-cells can be targeted by cellular and molecular therapies and lays a basis for the development of novel strategies to prevent immunopathology in lymphodepleted patients.

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AdultAdult Stem CellsAutoimmunityCell Cycle ProteinsCell ProliferationCells, CulturedDinoprostoneGADD45 ProteinsGraft RejectionGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansImmune ToleranceInterleukin-1betaInterleukin-7Lymphocyte DepletionMaleCell Cycle ProteinsDinoprostoneGADD45A protein, humanGADD45 ProteinsIL1B protein, humanIL7 protein, humanInterleukin-1betaInterleukin-7Nuclear ProteinsSOCS2 protein, humanSuppressor of Cytokine Signaling Proteins

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PMID26216515
PMCPMC4817941
OpenAlexW2239305708

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