Delivery of costimulatory blockade to lymph nodes promotes transplant acceptance in mice.
Delivery of costimulatory blockade to lymph nodes promotes transplant acceptance in mice.
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DOI:
10.1172/jci159672
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发表时间:
2022-12-15
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
Abdi, Reza
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作者:
Zhao, Jing;Jung, Sungwook;Li, Xiaofei;Li, Lushen;Kasinath, Vivek;Zhang, Hengcheng;Movahedi, Said N.;Mardini, Ahmad;Sabiu, Gianmarco;Hwang, Yoonha;Saxena, Vikas;Song, Yang;Ma, Bing;Acton, Sophie E.;Kim, Pilhan;Madsen, Joren C.;Sage, Peter T.;Tullius, Stefan G.;Tsokos, George C.;Bromberg, Jonathan S.;Abdi, Reza
The lymph node (LN) is the primary site of alloimmunity activation and regulation during transplantation. Here, we investigated how fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) facilitate the tolerance induced by anti-CD40L in a murine model of heart transplantation. We found that both the absence of LNs and FRC depletion abrogated the effect of anti-CD40L in prolonging murine heart allograft survival. Depletion of FRCs impaired homing of T cells across the high endothelial venules (HEVs) and promoted formation of alloreactive T cells in the LNs in heart-transplanted mice treated with anti-CD40L. Single-cell RNA sequencing of the LNs showed that anti-CD40L promotes a Madcam1+ FRC subset. FRCs also promoted the formation of regulatory T cells (Tregs) in vitro. Nanoparticles (NPs) containing anti-CD40L were selectively delivered to the LNs by coating them with MECA-79, which binds to peripheral node addressin (PNAd) glycoproteins expressed exclusively by HEVs. Treatment with these MECA-79–anti-CD40L-NPs markedly delayed the onset of heart allograft rejection and increased the presence of Tregs. Finally, combined MECA-79–anti-CD40L-NPs and rapamycin treatment resulted in markedly longer allograft survival than soluble anti-CD40L and rapamycin. These data demonstrate that FRCs are critical to facilitating costimulatory blockade. LN-targeted nanodelivery of anti-CD40L could effectively promote heart allograft acceptance.