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Gene therapy with regulatory T cells: A beneficial alliance

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Biswas, Moanaro, Kumar, Sandeep R. P., Terhorst, Cox, Herzog, Roland W.·2018·Frontiers in Immunology

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Gene therapy aims to replace a defective or deficient protein at therapeutic or curative levels. Improved vector designs have enhanced safety, efficacy and delivery, with potential for lasting treatment. However, innate and adaptive immune responses to the viral vector and transgene product remain obstacles to the establishment of therapeutic efficacy. It is widely accepted that endogenous regulatory T cells (Tregs) are critical for tolerance induction to the transgene product and in some cases, the viral vector. There are two basic strategies to harness the suppressive ability of Tregs: in vivo induction of adaptive Tregs specific to the introduced gene product, or concurrent administration of autologous, ex vivo expanded Tregs. The latter may be polyclonal or engineered to direct specificity to the therapeutic antigen. Recent clinical trials have advanced adoptive immunotherapy with Tregs for the treatment of autoimmune disease and in patients receiving cell transplants. Here, we highlight the potential benefit of combining gene therapy with Treg adoptive transfer to achieve sustained transgene expression. Furthermore, techniques to engineer antigen specific Treg cell populations, either through reprograming conventional CD4+ T cells or transferring T cell receptors with known specificity into polyclonal Tregs, are promising in pre-clinical studies. Thus, based upon these observations and the successful use of chimeric [IgG-based] antigen receptors (CARs) in antigen-specific effector T cells, different types of CAR Tregs could be added to the repertoire of inhibitory modalities to suppress immune responses to therapeutic cargos of gene therapy vectors. The diverse approaches to harness the ability of Tregs to suppress unwanted immune responses to gene therapy and their perspectives are reviewed in this article.

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  • Careful selection of immunosuppressive agents is necessary as Treg play a critical role in regulating immune response to rAAV products, particularly observed in liver and muscle gene transfer.

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Authors
Biswas, M., Kumar, S. R. P., Terhorst, C., & Herzog, R. W.
Affiliations
  • University of Florida (US)
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Biswas, Moanaro
Venue
Frontiers in Immunology
Published
2018-03-19
Volume
9
Pages
554-554
ISSN
1664-3224 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2792287345
Cited by
41
References
184
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Frontiers in Immunology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL-097088, HL131093, R01HL097088, R01HL131093)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI051390)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Keywords
gene therapy, regulatory T cells, adoptive Treg transfer, ex vivo Treg expansion, CAR-Tregs, chimeric antigen receptor, immunosuppression, sustained transgene expression, autoimmune disease, cell transplantation
MeSH terms
Animals, Antigen-Presenting Cells, Autoimmune Diseases, Genetic Vectors, Humans, Genetic Therapy, Lentivirus, Models, Immunological, Transgenes, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory

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