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Intranasal Vaccination with Proinsulin DNA Induces Regulatory CD4⁺ T Cells That Prevent Experimental Autoimmune Diabetes¹

Alison L. Every^*, David R. Kramer, Stuart I. Mannering^*, Andrew M. Lew^* and Leonard C. Harrison^2,*

^* Autoimmunity and Transplantation Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia; and Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia

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, CD4⁺ 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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