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Development and function of human innate immune cells in a humanized mouse model

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Rongvaux, Anthony, Willinger, Tim, Martinek, Jan, Strowig, Till, Gearty, Sofia V, Teichmann, Lino L, Saito, Yasuyuki, Marches, Florentina +4 more·2014·Nature Biotechnology

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Mice repopulated with human hematopoietic cells are a powerful tool for the study of human hematopoiesis and immune function in vivo. However, existing humanized mouse models cannot support development of human innate immune cells, including myeloid cells and natural killer (NK) cells. Here we describe two mouse strains called MITRG and MISTRG, in which human versions of four genes encoding cytokines important for innate immune cell development are knocked into their respective mouse loci. The human cytokines support the development and function of monocytes, macrophages and NK cells derived from human fetal liver or adult CD34(+) progenitor cells injected into the mice. Human macrophages infiltrated a human tumor xenograft in MITRG and MISTRG mice in a manner resembling that observed in tumors obtained from human patients. This humanized mouse model may be used to model the human immune system in scenarios of health and pathology, and may enable evaluation of therapeutic candidates in an in vivo setting relevant to human physiology.

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    “Species-specific differences between animals and humans cause differences in drug efficacy and toxicity tests in physiology and cell biology31–37.”
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    “MITRG mice allow for xenotransplantation and is designed to support human myeloid engraftment.”

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    “Similarly, mice reconstituted with a functional human immune system (humanized mice) can be used for studying the therapeutic effects of nanomedicines against autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, or to harbour patient-derived tumours for preclinical testing of cancer immune nanomedicines95.”

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Rongvaux, A., Willinger, T., Martinek, J., Strowig, T., Gearty, S. V., Teichmann, L. L., Saito, Y., Marches, F., Halene, S., Palucka, A. K., Manz, M. G., & Flavell, R. A.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • University Hospital Bonn (DE)
  • University Hospital Zurich (CH)
  • Yale Cancer Center (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Manz, Markus G
  • Flavell, Richard A
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2014-03-16
Volume
32
Issue
4
Pages
364-372
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W2007987850
Cited by
789
References
50
Citations by year
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FWCI
45.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Update notices
erratum (2017-12-01)
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Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion)
  • The Mouseion at the JAXlibrary (Jackson Laboratory) (submittedVersion)
  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA140602, CA84512, P01CA084512, R01CA129350, CA129350, R01CA156689, CA156689, CA140602)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Hematology › Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immune cells in cancer
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Xenotransplantation and immune response
Keywords
humanized mice, innate immune cells, myeloid cell development, natural killer cells, monocytes, macrophages, CD34+ cells, tumor xenografts
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Immunity, Innate, Killer Cells, Natural, Mice, Transgenic, Neoplasms, Experimental, Transplantation, Heterologous, Leukemic Infiltration, Myeloid Cells, Mice

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