Therapeutic targeting of syk in autoimmune diabetes

Colonna, Lucrezia, Catalano, Geoffrey, Chew, Claude, D'Agati, Vivette, Thomas, James W., Wong, Florence Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2812-8845, Schmitz, Jochen, Masuda, Esteban S., Reizis, Boris, Tarakhovsky, Alexander and Clynes, Raphael 2010. Therapeutic targeting of syk in autoimmune diabetes. The Journal of Immunology 185 (3) , pp. 1532-1543. 10.4049/jimmunol.1000983

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Abstract

In APCs, the protein tyrosine kinase Syk is required for signaling of several immunoreceptors, including the BCR and FcR. We show that conditional ablation of the syk gene in dendritic cells (DCs) abrogates FcγR-mediated cross priming of diabetogenic T cells in RIP-mOVA mice, a situation phenocopied in wild-type RIP-mOVA mice treated with the selective Syk inhibitor R788. In addition to blocking FcγR-mediated events, R788 also blocked BCR-mediated Ag presentation, thus broadly interrupting the humoral contributions to T cell-driven autoimmunity. Indeed, oral administration of R788 significantly delayed spontaneous diabetes onset in NOD mice and successfully delayed progression of early-established diabetes even when treatment was initiated after the development of glucose intolerance. At the DC level, R788 treatment was associated with reduced insulin-specific CD8 priming and decreased DC numbers. At the B cell level, R788 reduced total B cell numbers and total Ig concentrations. Interestingly, R788 increased the number of IL-10–producing B cells, thus inducing a tolerogenic B cell population with immunomodulatory activity. Taken together, we show by genetic and pharmacologic approaches that Syk in APCs is an attractive target in T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases such as 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:	American Association of Immunologists
ISSN:	0022-1767
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 08:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/29635

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