Attenuated alloreactivity of dendritic cells engineered with surface-modified microspheres carrying a plasmid encoding interleukin-10.

Jia, Liang; Kovacs, Jeffrey R; Zheng, Ying; Gawalt, Ellen S; Shen, Hongmei; Meng, Wilson S · Biomaterials · 2006

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

In the present study, we investigated MS(O10H6) as a carrier system to introduce a plasmid encoding murine interleukin-10 (pIL-10) to modulate alloreactivity of dendritic cells (DC). Results indicate that MS(O10H6) formed stable and protective nano-sized particles with pIL-10. Gene-modified DC elicited weak proliferation of allogeneic CD4 and CD8 T cells in vitro. Using cell-embedded Matrigel as a surrogate graft, we also showed that DC transfected with MS(O10H6) complexed with pIL-10 suppressed host cell infiltration in vivo. These data demonstrate that the self-assembled system of MS(O10H6) is an effectual delivery vehicle for plasmid-based modulation of DC-dependent allogeneic T cell responses.

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