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Leonardo V Riella, Jun Yang,
Susanne Chock,
Kassem Safa,
Ciara N Magee,
Vijay Vanguri,
Wassim Elyaman,
Youmna Lahoud,
Hideo Yagita,
Reza Abdi,
Nader Najafian,
José O Medina-Pestana,
Anil Chandraker
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ABSTRACT: The Notch pathway is an important intercellular signaling pathway that plays a major role in controlling cell fate. Accumulating evidence indicates that Notch and its ligands present on APCs might be important mediators of Th-cell differentiation. In this study, we investigated the role of Jagged2 in murine cardiac transplantation by using a signaling Jagged2 mAb (Jag2) that activates RBP-Jκ. While administration of Jag2 mAb had little effect on graft survival in the fully allogeneic mismatched model BALB/c→B6, it hastened rejection in CD28-deficient recipients. Similarly, Jag2 precipitated rejection in the bm12→B6 model. In this MHC class II-mismatched model, allografts spontaneously survive for >56 days due to the emergence of Treg cells that inhibit the expansion of alloreactive T cells. The accelerated rejection was associated with upregulation of Th2 cytokines and proinflammatory cytokine IL-6, despite expansion of Treg cells. Incubation of Treg cells with recombinant IL-6 abrogated their inhibitory effects in vitro. Furthermore, neutralization of IL-6 in vivo protected Jag2-treated recipients from rejection and Jagged2 signaling was unable to further accelerate rejection in the absence of Treg cells. Our findings therefore suggest that Jagged2 signaling can affect graft acceptance by upregulation of IL-6 and consequent resistance to Treg-cell suppression.
European Journal of Immunology 03/2013; · 5.10 Impact Factor
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Jun Yang,
Leonardo V Riella,
Susanne Chock,
Tao Liu,
Xiaozhi Zhao,
Xueli Yuan,
Alison M Paterson,
Toshihiko Watanabe,
Vijay Vanguri,
Hideo Yagita,
Miyuki Azuma,
Bruce R Blazar,
Gordon J Freeman,
Scott J Rodig,
Arlene H Sharpe,
Anil Chandraker,
Mohamed H Sayegh
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ABSTRACT: The programmed death ligand 1 (PDL1)/programmed death 1 (PD1) costimulatory pathway plays an important role in the inhibition of alloimmune responses as well as in the induction and maintenance of peripheral tolerance. It has been demonstrated recently that PDL1 also can bind B7.1 to inhibit T cell responses in vitro. Using the bm12 into B6 heart transplant model, we investigated the functional significance of this interaction in alloimmune responses in vivo. PD1 blockade unlike PDL1 blockade failed to accelerate bm12 allograft rejection, suggesting a role for an additional binding partner for PDL1 other than PD1 in transplant rejection. PDL1 blockade was able to accelerate allograft rejection in B7.2-deficient recipients but not B7.1-deficient recipients, indicating that PDL1 interaction with B7.1 was important in inhibiting rejection. Administration of the novel 2H11 anti-PDL1 mAb, which only blocks the PDL1-B7.1 interaction, aggravated chronic injury of bm12 allografts in B6 recipients. Aggravated chronic injury was associated with an increased frequency of alloreactive IFN-γ-, IL-4-, and IL-6-producing splenocytes and a decreased percentage of regulatory T cells in the recipients. Using an in vitro cell culture assay, blockade of the interaction of PDL1 on dendritic cells with B7.1 on T cells increased IFN-γ production from alloreactive CD4(+) T cells, whereas blockade of dendritic cell B7.1 interaction with T cell PDL1 did not. These data indicate that PDL1 interaction with B7.1 plays an important role in the inhibition of alloimmune responses in vivo and suggests a dominant direction for PDL1 and B7.1 interaction.
The Journal of Immunology 06/2011; 187(3):1113-9. · 5.79 Impact Factor
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Jun Yang,
Joyce Popoola,
Shakila Khandwala,
Nidyanandh Vadivel,
Vijay Vanguri,
Xueli Yuan,
Shirine Dada,
Indira Guleria,
Chaorui Tian,
M Javeed Ansari,
Tahiro Shin,
Hideo Yagita,
Miyuki Azuma,
Mohamed H Sayegh,
Anil Chandraker
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ABSTRACT: Allograft vasculopathy is a major limiting factor in the long-term success of cardiac transplantation. T cells play a critical role in initiation of cardiac allograft rejection and allograft vasculopathy. The negative T-cell costimulatory pathway PD-1:PDL1/PDL2 (programmed death-1:programmed death ligand-1/2) plays an important role in regulating alloimmune responses. We investigated the role of recipient versus donor PD-1 ligands in the pathogenesis of allograft rejection with emphasis on the role of tissue expression in regulating this alloimmune response in vivo.
We used established major histocompatibility complex class II- and class I-mismatched models of vascularized cardiac allograft rejection, blocking anti-PDL1 and anti-PDL2 antibodies, and PDL1- and PDL2-deficient mice (as donors or recipients) to study the role of the PD-1:PDL1/PDL2 pathway in chronic rejection. We also used PDL1-deficient and wild-type mice and bone marrow transplantation to generate chimeric animals that express PDL1 exclusively on either hematopoietic or parenchymal cells. PDL1 but not PDL2 blockade significantly accelerated cardiac allograft rejection in the bm12-into-B6 and B6-into-bm12 models. Although wild-type cardiac allografts survived long term, PDL1-/- donor hearts transplanted into wild-type bm12 mice exhibited accelerated rejection and vasculopathy associated with enhanced recipient T-cell alloreactivity. Interestingly, PDL1-/- recipients did not exhibit an accelerated tempo of cardiac allograft rejection. Using chimeric animals as donors, we show that PDL1 expression on cardiac tissue alone significantly prolonged graft survival compared with full PDL1-/- donor grafts in transplanted wild-type recipients.
This is the first report to demonstrate that expression of the negative costimulatory molecule PDL1 on donor cardiac tissue regulates recipient alloimmune responses, allograft rejection, and vasculopathy.
Circulation 03/2008; 117(5):660-9. · 14.74 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: FTY720 is a high-affinity agonist at the sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 that prevents lymphocyte egress from lymphoid tissue and prolongs allograft survival in several animal models of solid organ transplantation. In this study we used a recently developed adoptive transfer model of TCR transgenic T cells to track allospecific CD4+ T cell expansion and trafficking characteristics, cytokine secretion profiles, and surface phenotype in vivo in the setting of FTY720 administration. We report that FTY720 administration had no effect on alloantigen-driven T cell activation, proliferation, acquisition of effector-memory function, or T cell apoptosis. However, FTY720 caused a reversible sequestration of alloantigen-specific effector-memory T cells in regional lymphoid tissue associated with a decrease in T cell infiltration within the allograft and a subsequent prolongation in allograft survival. Furthermore, delayed administration of FTY720 in a cardiac model of chronic allograft rejection attenuated the progression of vasculopathy and tissue fibrosis consistent with the hypothesis that FTY720 interrupts the trafficking of activated effector-memory T cells. These data have important implications for targeting the sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 in solid organ transplantation.
The Journal of Immunology 02/2006; 176(1):36-42. · 5.79 Impact Factor
