Biomaterials-mediated engineering of the immune system

C Backlund, S Jalili-Firoozinezhad… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Modulation of the immune system is an important therapeutic strategy in a wide range of
diseases, and is fundamental to the development of vaccines. However, optimally safe and …

Biomaterial strategies for selective immune tolerance: advances and gaps

ST Carey, C Bridgeman, CM Jewell - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Autoimmunity and allergies affect a large number of people across the globe. Current
approaches to these diseases target cell types and pathways that drive disease, but these …

Vaccines for immune tolerance against autoimmune disease

A Kim, F Xie, OA Abed, JJ Moon - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The high prevalence and rising incidence of autoimmune diseases have become a
prominent public health issue. Autoimmune disorders result from the immune system …

Evolving understanding of autoimmune mechanisms and new therapeutic strategies of autoimmune disorders

Y Song, J Li, Y Wu - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Autoimmune disorders are characterized by aberrant T cell and B cell reactivity to the body's
own components, resulting in tissue destruction and organ dysfunction. Autoimmune …

Epitope-based precision immunotherapy of Type 1 diabetes

R Firdessa Fite, C Bechi Genzano… - Human Vaccines & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Antigen-specific immunotherapies (ASITs) address important clinical needs in treating
autoimmune diseases. However, Type 1 diabetes is a heterogeneous disease wherein …

Autoimmune susceptible HLA class II motifs facilitate the presentation of modified neoepitopes to potentially autoreactive T cells

AK Moustakas, H Nguyen, EA James… - Cellular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), multiple sclerosis (MS), type 1 diabetes (T1D), and celiac disease
(CD), are strongly associated with susceptible HLA class II haplotypes. The peptide-binding …

Engineering antigen-presenting cells for immunotherapy of autoimmunity

CT Smith, Z Wang, JS Lewis - Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Autoimmune diseases are burdensome conditions that affect a significant fraction of the
global population. The hallmark of autoimmune disease is a host's immune system being …

CD73: agent development potential and its application in diabetes and atherosclerosis

D Liu, J Zhao, L Li, J Wang, C Wang, Y Wu… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
CD73, an important metabolic and immune escape-promoting gene, catalyzes the
hydrolysis of adenosine monophosphate (AMP) to adenosine (ADO). AMP has anti …

Soluble antigen arrays provide increased efficacy and safety over free peptides for tolerogenic immunotherapy

R Firdessa-Fite, SN Johnson… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Autoantigen-specific immunotherapy using peptides offers a more targeted approach to treat
autoimmune diseases, but clinical implementation has been challenging. We previously …

Factors Governing B Cell Recognition of Autoantigen and Function in Type 1 Diabetes

LE Bass, RH Bonami - Antibodies, 2024 - mdpi.com
Islet autoantibodies predict type 1 diabetes (T1D) but can be transient in murine and human
T1D and are not thought to be directly pathogenic. Rather, these autoantibodies signal B cell …