Promoting tolerance to proteolipid protein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis through targeting dendritic cells
Promoting tolerance to proteolipid protein-induced experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis through targeting dendritic cells
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1010263107
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发表时间:
2010-10-05
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Strominger, Jack L.
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作者:
Stern, Joel N. H.;Keskin, Derin B.;Strominger, Jack L.
In T cell-mediated autoimmune diseases, self-reactive T cells with known antigen specificity appear to be particularly promising targets for antigen-specific induction of tolerance without compromising desired protective host immune responses. Several lines of evidence suggest that delivery of antigens to antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DCs) in the steady state (i.e., to immature DCs) may represent a suitable approach to induce antigen-specific T-cell tolerance peripherally. Here, we report that anti-DEC205-mediated delivery of the self-peptide proteolipid protein (PLP) 139-151 to DCs ameliorated clinical symptoms in the PLP-induced SJL model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Splenocytes from treated mice were anergized to PLP139-151, and IL-17 secretion was markedly reduced. Moreover, we show directly, using transgenic CD4(+) V beta 6(+) TCR T cells specific for PLP139-151, that, under the conditions of the present experiments, these cells also became anergic. In addition, evidence for a CD4(+) T cell-mediated suppressor mechanism was obtained.