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Pre-Emptive Targeting of the Epitope Spreading Cascade with Genetically Modified Regulatory T Cells During Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease¹

Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195

Epitope spreading or endogenous self-priming has been implicated in mediating the progression of autoimmune disease. In the present study we created an immune-deviated, epitope spreading response in SWXJ mice after the onset of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, a prototypic autoimmune animal model widely used in multiple sclerosis research. We established an immunoregulatory spreading repertoire by transferring T cells genetically modified to produce high levels of IL-10 in response to a dominant epitope spreading determinant. Installation of a Th2/Tr1-like spreading repertoire resulted in a marked and prolonged inhibition of disease progression and demyelination characterized by 1) bystander inhibition of the recall response to the priming immunogen, and 2) a Th1Tr1 immune-deviated spreading response involving a shift in the source of IL-10 production from the transferred regulatory population to the host-derived, endogenously primed repertoire. Thus, our data provide a rationale for cell-based therapeutic intervention in multiple sclerosis by showing that pre-emptive targeting of the epitope spreading cascade with regulatory T cells effectively induces an immune-deviated spreading response capable of inhibiting ongoing inflammatory autoreactivity and disease progression.

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