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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 176, 期 8, 页码 4608-4615出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.8.4608
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Insulin, an autoantigen in type 1 diabetes, when administered mucosally to diabetes-prone NOD mice induces regulatory T cells (T-reg) that protect against diabetes. Compared with protein, Ag encoded as DNA has potential advantages as a therapeutic agent. We found that intranasal vaccination of NOD mice with plasmid DNA encoding mouse proinsulin II-induced CD4(+) T-reg that suppressed diabetes development, both after adoptive cotransfer with diabetogenic spleen cells and after transfer into NOD mice given cyclophosphamide to accelerate diabetes onset. In contrast to prototypic CD4(+)CD25(+) T-reg induced by proinsulin DNA were both CD25(+) and CD25(-) and not defined by markers such as glucocorticoid-induced TNFR-related protein (GITR), CD103, or Foxp3. Intriguingly, despite induction of T-reg and reduced islet inflammation, diabetes incidence in proinsulin DNA-treated mice was unchanged. However, diabetes was prevented when DNA vaccination was performed under the cover of CD40 ligand blockade, known to prevent priming of CTL by mucosal Ag. Thus, intranasal vaccination with proinsulin DNA has therapeutic potential to prevent diabetes, as demonstrated by induction of protective T-reg, but further modifications are required to improve its efficacy, which could be compromised by concomitant induction of pathogenic immunity.
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