Transient B-cell depletion with anti-CD20 in combination with proinsulin DNA vaccine or oral insulin: immunologic effects and efficacy in NOD mice

Autor: Lawrence Steinman, Sowbarnika Sachithanantham, Mark A. Atkinson, Marilyne Coulombe, Hideki Garren, Ghanashyam Sarikonda, Mario R. Ehlers, Yulia Manenkova, Teodora Staeva, Philip Bernstein, Gerald T. Nepom, Teresa Rodriguez Calvo, Darius A. Schneider, Clive Wasserfall, Ronald G. Gill, Tinalyn Kupfer, Kevan C. Herold, Andrew C. Chan, Philippe P. Pagni, Matthias von Herrath, Laura Straub, Amanda L. Posgai
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes
Anatomy and Physiology
B Cells
Mouse
endocrine system diseases
medicine.medical_treatment
Administration
Oral

lcsh:Medicine
Autoimmunity
Mice
0302 clinical medicine
Endocrinology
Insulin Signaling Cascade
Mice
Inbred NOD

Molecular Cell Biology
Vaccines
DNA

Insulin
lcsh:Science
NOD mice
Proinsulin
0303 health sciences
B-Lymphocytes
Multidisciplinary
biology
T Cells
Antibodies
Monoclonal

Animal Models
Signaling Cascades
3. Good health
Medicine
Drug Therapy
Combination

Female
Immunotherapy
Antibody
Research Article
Signal Transduction
medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system
Combination therapy
Immune Cells
Immunology
Endocrine System
Immune Suppression
Immunomodulation
03 medical and health sciences
Model Organisms
Antigen
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
medicine
Immune Tolerance
Animals
Biology
Pancreas
030304 developmental biology
Diabetic Endocrinology
Type 1 diabetes
Endocrine Physiology
business.industry
lcsh:R
Immunity
Immunoregulation
Diabetes Mellitus Type 1
medicine.disease
Antigens
CD20

Mice
Inbred C57BL

Diabetes Mellitus
Type 1

Hyperglycemia
biology.protein
lcsh:Q
Interleukin-4
Lymph Nodes
business
Spleen
030215 immunology
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 2, p e54712 (2013)
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: A recent type 1 diabetes (T1D) clinical trial of rituximab (a B cell-depleting anti-CD20 antibody) achieved some therapeutic benefit in preserving C-peptide for a period of approximately nine months in patients with recently diagnosed diabetes. Our previous data in the NOD mouse demonstrated that co-administration of antigen (insulin) with anti-CD3 antibody (a T cell-directed immunomodulator) offers better protection than either entity alone, indicating that novel combination therapies that include a T1D-related autoantigen are possible. To accelerate the identification and development of novel combination therapies that can be advanced into the clinic, we have evaluated the combination of a mouse anti-CD20 antibody with either oral insulin or a proinsulin-expressing DNA vaccine. Anti-CD20 alone, given once or on 4 consecutive days, produced transient B cell depletion but did not prevent or reverse T1D in the NOD mouse. Oral insulin alone (twice weekly for 6 weeks) was also ineffective, while proinsulin DNA (weekly for up to 12 weeks) showed a trend toward modest efficacy. Combination of anti-CD20 with oral insulin was ineffective in reversing diabetes in NOD mice whose glycemia was controlled with SC insulin pellets; these experiments were performed in three independent labs. Combination of anti-CD20 with proinsulin DNA was also ineffective in diabetes reversal, but did show modest efficacy in diabetes prevention (p = 0.04). In the prevention studies, anti-CD20 plus proinsulin resulted in modest increases in Tregs in pancreatic lymph nodes and elevated levels of proinsulin-specific CD4+ T-cells that produced IL-4. Thus, combination therapy with anti-CD20 and either oral insulin or proinsulin does not protect hyperglycemic NOD mice, but the combination with proinsulin offers limited efficacy in T1D prevention, potentially by augmentation of proinsulin-specific IL-4 production.
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