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Murine CAR19 Tregs suppress acute graft-versus-host disease and maintain graft-versus-tumor responses.

Sara Bolivar-Wagers, Michael L Loschi, Sujeong Jin, Govindarajan Thangavelu, Jemma H Larson, Cameron S McDonald-Hyman, Ethan G Aguilar, Asim Saha, Brent H Koehn, Mehrdad Hefazi and 5 more

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Article in JCI insight, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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34 citing papers in PubMed, 33 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 1 country.

Sara Bolivar-WagersDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Michael L LoschiDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Sujeong JinDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Govindarajan ThangaveluDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Jemma H LarsonDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Cameron S McDonald-HymanDepartment of Medicine, Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Ethan G AguilarDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Asim SahaDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Brent H KoehnDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Mehrdad HefaziDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Mark J OsbornDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Michael C JensenDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
John E WagnerDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
Christopher A PennellDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Bruce R BlazarDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, and.
University of Minnesota Medical Center · USMayo Clinic · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

Trial Design and Biostatistical Support CoreP01CA065493 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI J SUNIL RAO · 1995 to 2026
$48.2M
Transgenic/KnockoutP01AI056299 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R · 2003 to 2023
$42.5M
TRAINING IN HEMOGLOBIN &CELL MEMBRANE RESEARCHT32HL007062 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Jeffrey S. Miller, Gregory M Vercellotti · 1985 to 2026
$10.3M
Enhancing Treg Therapeutic Efficacy in GVHDR01HL118979 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R, HIPPEN, KELI L · 2014 to 2025
$6.7M
IMMUNOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAMT32AI007313 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI Carla Rothlin · 1989 to 2026
$5.7M
T-CELL TARGETING FOR GVHDR01HL056067 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R · 1995 to 2022
$5.4M
In Vivo Prevention of Murine GVHDR37AI034495 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI Bruce R Blazar · 2017 to 2026
$5.4M
Nongenotoxic conditioning for gene therapy and allogeneic transplantation in Fanconi anemiaR01HL147324 · NHLBI · FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER · PI Bruce R Blazar, HANS-PETER KIEM · 2020 to 2026
$4.1M
POST BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT LUNG INJURY PATHOPHYSIOLOGYR01HL055209 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI PANOSKALTSIS-MORTARI, ANGELA · 1995 to 2009
$3.7M
Exploiting the VISTA Pathway to Prevent Acute GVHD and Control Steroid Refractory DiseaseR01HL155114 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R, NOELLE, RANDOLPH J. · 2021 to 2024
$2.7M
Enhancing Treg Therapeutic Efficacy in GVHD with CARsF30HL156312 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BOLIVAR WAGERS, SARA · 2021 to 2023
$110k
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA065493NHLBI NIH HHS F30 HL156312NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL055209NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL056067NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL118979NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL147324NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL155114NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007062NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI034495NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007313
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) efficacy is complicated by graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Regulatory T cells (Tregs) have shown efficacy in preventing GVHD. However, high Treg doses are often required, necessitating substantial ex vivo or in vivo expansion that may diminish suppressor function. To enhance in vivo suppressor function, murine Tregs were transduced to express an anti-human CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (hCAR19) and infused into lethally irradiated, hCD19-transgenic recipients for allo-HSCT. Compared with recipients receiving control transduced Tregs, those receiving hCAR19 Tregs had a marked decrease in acute GVHD lethality. Recipient hCD19 B cells and murine hCD19 TBL12-luciferase (TBL12luc) lymphoma cells were both cleared by allogeneic hCAR19 Tregs, which was indicative of graft-versus-tumor (GVT) maintenance and potentiation. Mechanistically, hCAR19 Tregs killed syngeneic hCD19+ but not hCD19- murine TBL12luc cells in vitro in a perforin-dependent, granzyme B-independent manner. Importantly, cyclophosphamide-treated, hCD19-transgenic mice given hCAR19 cytotoxic T lymphocytes without allo-HSCT experienced rapid lethality due to systemic toxicity that has been associated with proinflammatory cytokine release; in contrast, hCAR19 Treg suppressor function enabled avoidance of this severe complication. In conclusion, hCAR19 Tregs are a potentially novel and effective strategy to suppress GVHD without loss of GVT responses.

Indexed as

Graft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAnimalsMiceReceptors, Antigen, T-CellTransplantation, HomologousCD19-specific chimeric antigen receptorReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric AntigenBone marrow transplantationCancer immunotherapyImmunologyStem cell transplantationTransplantation

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PMID35917188
PMCPMC9536261
OpenAlexW4289522793

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