Dendritic Cell Therapy in Transplantation, Phenotype Governs Destination and Function.
Dendritic Cell Therapy in Transplantation, Phenotype Governs Destination and Function.
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移植中的树突状细胞治疗,表型决定目的地和功能。
DOI:
10.1097/tp.0000000000002238
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Brennan,ToddV
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作者:
Samy,KannanP;Brennan,ToddV
Although pharmacological methods are the mainstay for transplant immunosuppression, cell-based therapies are being increasingly studied as a potential alternative. Currently available immunosuppressive medications lack specificity, leaving transplant recipients vulnerable to infection, malignancy, and drug-related toxicities while still being susceptible to chronic rejection. Donor-specific tolerance would be clearly superior to global immunosuppression yet remains an elusive goal. Recent advances in cell-based therapies along with an improved understanding of central and peripheral tolerance mechanisms offer new possibilities for donor-specific immunomodulation. Among the many types of cell-based therapies tested to date, some of the most successful thus far have involved donor stem cell transplantation in livingdonor kidney transplant recipients. 1 However, the need ex vivo cell manipulation along with T-cell depletion and bone marrow conditioning makes these methods arduous for many transplant recipients and impractical for those receiving deceased donor organs. As an alternative cellular therapy, dendritic cells (DCs) are particularly attractive because of their role as central regulators of immune responses. 2 In this edition of Transplantation, Rosen and colleagues3 present a comprehensive review of the role DCs play in producing allograft tolerance, highlighting recent studies demonstrating the utility of recipient-derived DCs loaded with donor antigen, rather than donor-derived DCs for transplant immunotherapy. Recipient-derived DCs present donor antigen in the context of self major histocompatibility complex (indirect presentation), which in the setting of transplantation produces stronger allospecific effector responses when compared with direct presentation of donor major histocompatibility complex. 4 Thus, autologous DCs are attractive because they also generate potent regulatory T-cell responses when compared with suppressive macrophages or myeloid derived suppressor cells. 5 Murine models of allotransplantation demonstrate that these effects further extend graft survival with minimal pharmacologic immunosuppression. 6-8 Self-DCs may also be easier to maintain in an immature phenotype after transfer as they will not themselves be targeted by pathways of direct antigen presentation that can lead to their elimination or, even worse, induce their maturation and sensitize the recipient against donor antigen. As illustrated in the review by Rosen et al, the surface phenotype and location of DCs influence their effects on the immune system. Considered to be the most potent of the antigen-presenting cell types, DCs are highly mobile sentinels of the innate immune system that collect peripheral antigens and present them to the adaptive immune system. The context in which DCs present antigen is regulated by a complex array of stimulatory and inhibitory signals that orchestrate the direction and magnitude of the immune response. In the presence of local inflammatory signals, tissue resident DCs mature (mDCs) and express increased levels of antigenpresenting molecules, costimulation molecules, and inflammatory cytokines that differentiate T cells into effector phenotypes. In the absence of inflammation, immature DCs (imDCs), including migratory conventional DCs (SIRPα+, CD11c+, B220neg) and plasmacytoid DCs (PDCA-1+, CD11c+, B220+) with decreased antigen-presenting potential, help maintain self-tolerance to peripheral antigens. Although the migratory routes of DCs are incompletely understood, there is evidence that their phenotype governs their destination and ultimately their function in regulating immune …