Selective immunotargeting of diabetogenic CD4 T cells by genetically redirected T cells

Perez, Shira, Fishman, Sigal, Bordowitz, Amos, Margalit, Alon, Wong, Florence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2812-8845 and Gross, Gideon 2014. Selective immunotargeting of diabetogenic CD4 T cells by genetically redirected T cells. Immunology 143 (4) , pp. 609-617. 10.1111/imm.12340

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Abstract

The key role played by islet-reactive CD8 and CD4 T cells in type 1 diabetes calls for new immunotherapies that target pathogenic T cells in a selective manner. We previously demonstrated that genetically linking the signalling portion of CD3-ζ onto the C-terminus of β2-microglobulin and an autoantigenic peptide to its N-terminus converts MHC-I complexes into functional T-cell receptor-specific receptors. CD8 T cells expressing such receptors specifically killed diabetogenic CD8 T cells, blocked T-cell-induced diabetes in immunodeficient NOD.SCID mice and suppressed disease in wild-type NOD mice. Here we describe the immunotargeting of CD4 T cells by chimeric MHC-II receptors. To this end we chose the diabetogenic NOD CD4 T-cell clone BDC2.5, which recognizes the I-Ag7-bound 1040-31 mimotope. We assembled several constructs encoding I-Ag7 α- and β-chains, the latter carrying mim or hen egg lysozyme peptide as control, each supplemented with CD3-ζ intracellular portion, either with or without its transmembrane domain. Following mRNA co-transfection of reporter B3Z T cells and mouse CD8 and CD4 T cells, these constructs triggered robust activation upon I-Ag7 cross-linking. A BDC2.5 T-cell hybridoma activated B3Z transfectants expressing the mimotope, but not the control peptide, in both configurations. Potent two-way activation was also evident with transgenic BDC2.5 CD4 T cells, but peptide-specific activation required the CD3-ζ transmembrane domain. Chimeric MHC-II/CD3-ζ complexes therefore allow the selective immunotargeting of islet-reactive CD4 T cells, which take part in the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects:	Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology
Publisher:	Wiley Blackwell
ISSN:	0019-2805
Last Modified:	28 Oct 2022 10:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78419

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