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ArticleTransplantation2025

Enhanced Costimulation Blockade With αCD154, αCD2, and αCD28 to Promote Heart Allograft Tolerance in Nonhuman Primates.

Ryan Chaban, Ikechukwu Ileka, Kohei Kinoshita, Gannon McGrath, Zahra Habibabady, Madelyn Ma, Victoria Diaz, Akihiro Maenaka, Ivy Rosales, Seth Lederman and 3 more

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  1. 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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Ryan ChabanDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Ikechukwu IlekaDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Kohei KinoshitaDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Gannon McGrathDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Zahra HabibabadyDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Madelyn MaDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Victoria DiazDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Akihiro MaenakaDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Ivy RosalesDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Seth LedermanTonix Pharma LLC, Chatham, NJ.
Victor TkachevDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Joren C MadsenDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Richard N PiersonDepartment of Surgery, Center for Transplantation Sciences, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Funding

Project 3: Enhanced Costimulation Blockade to Achieve Clinically Relevant Heart Allograft ToleranceP01HL158504 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PIERSON, RICHARD N · 2021 to 2025
$12.1M
TRAINING IN TRANSPLANTATION BIOLOGYT32AI007529 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MADSEN, JOREN C · 1998 to 2024
$6.4M
Versatile high-throughput Alinity ci assay platform to support multiple laboratory animal usersS10OD034375 · OD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PIERSON, RICHARD N · 2024 to 2024
$253k
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL158504NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007529NIH HHS S10 OD034375
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundLong-term renal allograft acceptance has been achieved in macaques using a transient mixed hematopoetic chimerism protocol, but similar regimens have proven unsuccessful in heart allograft recipients unless a kidney transplant was performed simultaneously. Here, we test whether a modified protocol based on targeting CD154, CD2, and CD28 is sufficient to prolong heart allograft acceptance or promote the expansion of regulatory T cells.

methodsEight macaques underwent heterotopic allo-heart transplantation from major histocompatibility complex-mismatched donors. Induction treatment for donor bone marrow transplantation (BMT) was administered after a 4-mo delay period under TNX-1500 monotherapy. The BMT induction regimen comprised 1 (group 1, G1; n = 3) or 2 (group 2, G2; n = 5) doses of total body irradiation, thymic irradiation, and antithymocyte globulin, followed by 2 (G1) or 5 (G2) weekly doses of αCD2 and 5 weekly treatments with αCD28 and TNX-1500.

resultsDuring the delay period, 1 G1 graft was rejected and 2 (1 in each group) exhibited moderate rejection on protocol biopsy before BMT. Lymphocyte chimerism was seen in 3 of 5 G2 animals and in 1 of 2 G1 recipients. One G1 graft was rejected despite chimerism, whereas the other recipient succumbed to anti-cytomegalovirus treatment. Two G2 monkeys succumbed due to infection (cytomegalovirus, bacteremia) post-BMT and 3 due to posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disease.

conclusionsIntensive costimulation pathway blockade with αCD2, αCD154, and αCD28 promotes lymphocyte chimerism at the cost of high incidence of posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disease and opportunistic infections, preventing assessment of the effectiveness of the regimen to promote alloimmune tolerance.

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AbataceptCD28 AntigensCD2 AntigensCD40 LigandGraft RejectionGraft SurvivalHeart TransplantationImmunosuppressive AgentsTransplantation ToleranceAnimalsBone Marrow TransplantationMacaca mulattaMaleT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAbataceptCD28 AntigensCD2 AntigensCD40 LigandImmunosuppressive Agents

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PMID39792548
PMCPMC12097961

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