Initial exploration of a novel fusion protein, IL-4/IL-34/IL-10, which promotes cardiac allograft survival mice through alloregulation

Immune mediated graft loss still represents a major risk to transplant recipients. Creative approaches to immunosuppression that exploit the recipient's own alloregulatory mechanisms could reduce the need for pharmacologic immunosuppression and potentially induce immune tolerance. In the process of studying recipient derived myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), we identified key alloregulatory MDSC mechanisms, mediated by isolatable proteins IL-4, IL-34, and IL-10. We sought to purify these proteins and fuse them for subsequent infusion into transplant recipients as a means of inducing an alloregulatory response. In this introductory investigation, we leveraged molecular engineering technology to create a fusion protein (FP) of three cytokine coding sequences of IL-4, IL-34, and IL-10 and demonstrated their expressions by Western Blot analysis. Following purification, we tested whether FP IL-4/IL-34/IL-10 (FP1) can protect heart transplant allografts. Injection of FP1 significantly prolonged allogeneic cardiac graft survival in a dose-dependent fashion and the increase of graft survival time exceeded survival attributable to IL-34 alone. In vitro, MDSCs cells were expanded by FP1 treatment. However, FP1 did not directly inhibit T cell proliferation in vitro. In conclusion, newly developed FP1 improves the graft survival in cardiac transplantation mouse model. Significant additional work to optimize FP1 or include other novel proteins could supplement current treatment options for transplant patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Innate immunity - 29(2023), 7 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 150-158

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lee, Young S [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, I-Ting [VerfasserIn]
Raquel, Godoy-Ruiz [VerfasserIn]
Weber, David J [VerfasserIn]
Scalea, Joseph R [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

130068-27-8
207137-56-2
Alloregulation
Heart transplant
Interleukin-10
Interleukin-4
Journal Article
MDSC
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Tolerance
Transplant

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Date Completed 26.10.2023

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/17534259231186239

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362945276