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MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 13, Pages 3526-3535Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.008
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Th-cells; arthritis; cytokines; gene therapy
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Systemic administration of agents that neutralize or antagonize T(h)1-mediated pro-inflammatory responses has been demonstrated to ameliorate inflammation in chronic autoimmune disease. However, systemic administration of such immunosuppressive biologicals causes serious side effects and has only limited success. To minimize these side effects, autoantigen-specific lymphocytes have been proposed as a carrier to deliver immunosuppressive agents to sites of inflammation. Here we studied the effects of primary cartilage proteoglycan-specific CD4(+) T cells that were transduced using an efficient method of viral transduction with active genes encoding IL-1 beta receptor antagonist, soluble TNF-alpha receptor-Ig, IL-4 or IL-10 in chronic proteoglycan-induced arthritis in mice. This is the first study describing such gene therapy using primary CD4(+) T cells in a chronic arthritis. Moreover, the impact of proteoglycan-specific T(h)1, T(h)2 or naive T cells was studied. Although proteoglycan-TCR transgenic CD4(+) T cells can transfer arthritis to lymphopenic recipients, none of the proteoglycan-TCR transgenic T cell phenotypes that were tested induced worsening of arthritis in wild type hosts. Proteoglycan-specific T cells ameliorated arthritis when expressing the transduced IL-10 gene, and not when expressing the other transgenes/phenotypes. Although all of the tested biologicals can suppress in a wide range of different inflammatory disorders, especially IL-10 would therefore serve as a promising candidate to be used in cellular gene therapy for chronic arthritis. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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