T Takayama1, H Tahara, A W Thomson. 1. Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Dendritic cells (DC) are important antigen-presenting cells that play critical roles in the initiation and modulation of immune responses. Genetic engineering of DC to express immunosuppressive molecules is a novel approach to the inhibition of allograft rejection. Retroviral delivery of viral interleukin (vIL)-10 to replicating myeloid DC progenitors (DCp) impairs their T-cell stimulatory capacity and promotes the induction of antigen-specific T-cell hyporesponsiveness. However, transduction efficiency with retroviral vectors is comparatively low. Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) is important both as a marker of gene transduction and for the selection of transduced cells. Our aims were to construct a retroviral vector encoding both vIL-10 and EGFP, to positively select transduced DC, and to assess the impact of these highly purified, vIL-10-secreting antigen-presenting cells on allogeneic T-cell responses. METHODS: DCp propagated from bone marrow of C57BL10 (H2b) mice in granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)+IL-4 were transduced with a retroviral vector encoding both vIL-10 and EGFP by centrifugal enhancement. Gene transfer efficiency was determined by flow cytometry. Transduced cells were flow sorted, and vIL-10 secretion was quantified by ELISA. DC function was assessed by the ability of the cells to induce naive allogeneic (C3H; H2k) T-cell proliferation and cytotoxic T lymphocyte generation. RESULTS: Retrovirally transduced DC expressed both vIL-10 and EGFP gene products. Approximately 20% of unsorted cells expressed EGFP, as determined by flow cytometry. vIL-10 was produced at a mean rate of 31 ng/40 hr/10(6) cells. After sorting, the incidence of EGFP+ DC was increased dramatically to at least 95%, and the production of vIL-10 was increased approximately three- to fourfold, to a mean of 107 ng/40 hr/10(6) cells. These highly purified, vIL-10-secreting DC exhibited markedly diminished capacity to induce allogeneic T-cell proliferative and cytotoxic responses. CONCLUSIONS: DCp retrovirally transduced to express both vIL-10 and EGFP can be rapidly identified and sorted to high levels of purity. The availability of highly enriched preparations of vIL-10-transduced DC facilitates studies of their immunoregulatory function and may enhance their therapeutic potential in transplantation or autoimmune disease.
BACKGROUND: Dendritic cells (DC) are important antigen-presenting cells that play critical roles in the initiation and modulation of immune responses. Genetic engineering of DC to express immunosuppressive molecules is a novel approach to the inhibition of allograft rejection. Retroviral delivery of viral interleukin (vIL)-10 to replicating myeloid DC progenitors (DCp) impairs their T-cell stimulatory capacity and promotes the induction of antigen-specific T-cell hyporesponsiveness. However, transduction efficiency with retroviral vectors is comparatively low. Enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP) is important both as a marker of gene transduction and for the selection of transduced cells. Our aims were to construct a retroviral vector encoding both vIL-10 and EGFP, to positively select transduced DC, and to assess the impact of these highly purified, vIL-10-secreting antigen-presenting cells on allogeneic T-cell responses. METHODS: DCp propagated from bone marrow of C57BL10 (H2b) mice in granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)+IL-4 were transduced with a retroviral vector encoding both vIL-10 and EGFP by centrifugal enhancement. Gene transfer efficiency was determined by flow cytometry. Transduced cells were flow sorted, and vIL-10 secretion was quantified by ELISA. DC function was assessed by the ability of the cells to induce naive allogeneic (C3H; H2k) T-cell proliferation and cytotoxic T lymphocyte generation. RESULTS: Retrovirally transduced DC expressed both vIL-10 and EGFP gene products. Approximately 20% of unsorted cells expressed EGFP, as determined by flow cytometry. vIL-10 was produced at a mean rate of 31 ng/40 hr/10(6) cells. After sorting, the incidence of EGFP+ DC was increased dramatically to at least 95%, and the production of vIL-10 was increased approximately three- to fourfold, to a mean of 107 ng/40 hr/10(6) cells. These highly purified, vIL-10-secreting DC exhibited markedly diminished capacity to induce allogeneic T-cell proliferative and cytotoxic responses. CONCLUSIONS: DCp retrovirally transduced to express both vIL-10 and EGFP can be rapidly identified and sorted to high levels of purity. The availability of highly enriched preparations of vIL-10-transduced DC facilitates studies of their immunoregulatory function and may enhance their therapeutic potential in transplantation or autoimmune disease.
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