Precision engineering of an anti-HLA-A2 chimeric antigen receptor in regulatory T cells for transplant immune tolerance

YD Muller, LMR Ferreira, E Ronin, P Ho… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
YD Muller, LMR Ferreira, E Ronin, P Ho, V Nguyen, G Faleo, Y Zhou, K Lee, KK Leung
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021frontiersin.org
Infusion of regulatory T cells (Tregs) engineered with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)
targeting donor-derived human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a promising strategy to promote
transplant tolerance. Here, we describe an anti-HLA-A2 CAR (A2-CAR) generated by
grafting the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) of a human monoclonal anti-HLA-
A2 antibody into the framework regions of the Herceptin 4D5 single-chain variable fragment
and fusing it with a CD28-ζ signaling domain. The CDR-grafted A2-CAR maintained the …
Infusion of regulatory T cells (Tregs) engineered with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting donor-derived human leukocyte antigen (HLA) is a promising strategy to promote transplant tolerance. Here, we describe an anti-HLA-A2 CAR (A2-CAR) generated by grafting the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) of a human monoclonal anti-HLA-A2 antibody into the framework regions of the Herceptin 4D5 single-chain variable fragment and fusing it with a CD28-ζ signaling domain. The CDR-grafted A2-CAR maintained the specificity of the original antibody. We then generated HLA-A2 mono-specific human CAR Tregs either by deleting the endogenous T-cell receptor (TCR) via CRISPR/Cas9 and introducing the A2-CAR using lentiviral transduction or by directly integrating the CAR construct into the TCR alpha constant locus using homology-directed repair. These A2-CAR+TCRdeficient human Tregs maintained both Treg phenotype and function in vitro. Moreover, they selectively accumulated in HLA-A2-expressing islets transplanted from either HLA-A2 transgenic mice or deceased human donors. A2-CAR+TCRdeficient Tregs did not impair the function of these HLA-A2+ islets, whereas similarly engineered A2-CAR+TCRdeficientCD4+ conventional T cells rejected the islets in less than 2 weeks. A2-CAR+TCRdeficient Tregs delayed graft-versus-host disease only in the presence of HLA-A2, expressed either by co-transferred peripheral blood mononuclear cells or by the recipient mice. Altogether, we demonstrate that genome-engineered mono-antigen-specific A2-CAR Tregs localize to HLA-A2-expressing grafts and exhibit antigen-dependent in vivo suppression, independent of TCR expression. These approaches may be applied towards developing precision Treg cell therapies for transplant tolerance.
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