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ArticleScience translational medicine2023

Selective Bcl-2 inhibition promotes hematopoietic chimerism and allograft tolerance without myelosuppression in nonhuman primates.

Hajime Sasaki, Takayuki Hirose, Tetsu Oura, Ryo Otsuka, Ivy Rosales, David Ma, Grace Lassiter, Ahmad Karadagi, Toshihide Tomosugi, Abbas Dehnadi and 12 more

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Article in Science translational medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Preclinical and clinical studies on kidney allograft tolerance via hematopoietic chimerism.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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  3. Synergistic venetoclax and anti-CD3 therapy for control of alloreactive response in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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  10. Organ-Specific Determinants of Tolerance and the Unique Challenge of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025
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  14. De novo membranous nephropathy in a pig-to-baboon kidney xenograft: A new xenograft glomerulopathy.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

22 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hajime SasakiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7639-0912
Takayuki HiroseMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7950-0961
Tetsu OuraMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-5168-3803
Ryo OtsukaMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3730-9867
Ivy RosalesMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0621-3202
David MaMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-0696-3718
Grace LassiterMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3891-8581
Ahmad KaradagiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Toshihide TomosugiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8715-9134
Abbas DehnadiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Masatoshi MatsunamiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2209-260X
Susan Raju PaulMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, M 02114, USA.
Patrick M ReevesMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, M 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8202-0723
Isabel HanekampMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6218-3979
Samuel SchwartzMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6158-9531
Robert B ColvinMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Hang LeeMassachusetts General Hospital, Biostatistics Center, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Thomas R SpitzerMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, M 02114, USA.
A Benedict CosimiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Pietro E CippàDivision of Nephrology, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland.
Thomas FehrDepartment of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Graubuenden, 7000 Chur, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1668-1800
Tatsuo KawaiMassachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6900-4603
Massachusetts General Hospital · USEnte Ospedaliero Cantonale · CHUniversity Hospital of Zurich · CH

Funding

TRAINING IN TRANSPLANTATION BIOLOGYT32AI007529 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MADSEN, JOREN C · 1998 to 2024
$6.4M
Bcl-2 and Mcl-1 inhibition for induction of hematopoietic chimerism and renal allograft tolerance without myelosuppression in nonhuman primatesR01AI155714 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KAWAI, TATSUO · 2022 to 2025
$4.6M
Targeting innate immunity for induction of robust renal allograft toleranceU01AI174968 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI M. AMIN ARNAOUT, TATSUO KAWAI · 2023 to 2026
$4.3M
Inhibition of Bcl-2 for Induction of Mixed Chimerism and Renal Allograft Tolerance Without MyelosuppressionR56AI139679 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KAWAI, TATSUO · 2018 to 2018
$678k
Inhibition of BCL-2 for induction of mixed chimerism without myelosuppressive conditioningR21AI126289 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KAWAI, TATSUO · 2016 to 2017
$461k
Mcl-1 inhibition for induction of hematopoietic chimerism without nonselective myeloablative treatments in nonhuman primatesR21AI163806 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KAWAI, TATSUO · 2021 to 2022
$450k
Effects of combining anti-CD40 and anti-CD11b mAb107 on survival of pig kidney xenografts in cynomolgus monkeysR21AI168393 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ARNAOUT, M. AMIN · 2022 to 2023
$447k
MIXED CHIMERISM AND TOLERANCE IN CYNOMOLGUS MONKEYSR21AI037692 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI KAWAI, TATSUO · 2000 to 2000
$232k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155714NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI037692NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI126289NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI163806NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI168393NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI139679NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007529NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI174968
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has many potential applications beyond current standard indications, including treatment of autoimmune disease, gene therapy, and transplant tolerance induction. However, severe myelosuppression and other toxicities after myeloablative conditioning regimens have hampered wider clinical use. To achieve donor hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) engraftment, it appears essential to establish niches for the donor HSCs by depleting the host HSCs. To date, this has been achievable only by nonselective treatments such as irradiation or chemotherapeutic drugs. An approach that is capable of more selectively depleting host HSCs is needed to widen the clinical application of HSCT. Here, we show in a clinically relevant nonhuman primate model that selective inhibition of B cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) promoted hematopoietic chimerism and renal allograft tolerance after partial deletion of HSCs and effective peripheral lymphocyte deletion while preserving myeloid cells and regulatory T cells. Although Bcl-2 inhibition alone was insufficient to induce hematopoietic chimerism, the addition of a Bcl-2 inhibitor resulted in promotion of hematopoietic chimerism and renal allograft tolerance despite using only half of the dose of total body irradiation previously required. Selective inhibition of Bcl-2 is therefore a promising approach to induce hematopoietic chimerism without myelosuppression and has the potential to render HSCT more feasible for a variety of clinical indications.

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Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationKidney TransplantationAnimalsChimerismGenes, bcl-2PrimatesTransplantation Tolerance

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PMID37018417
PMCPMC11022838
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