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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2022

Mesenchymal stem cells augment regulatory T cell function via CD80-mediated interactions and promote allograft survival.

Sharad K Mittal, WonKyung Cho, Elsayed Elbasiony, Yilin Guan, William Foulsham, Sunil K Chauhan

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Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sharad K MittalSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
WonKyung ChoSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Elsayed ElbasionySchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Yilin GuanSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
William FoulshamSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Sunil K ChauhanSchepens Eye Research Institute of Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4938-6023
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · US

Funding

VISION RESEARCHP30EY003790 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI Patricia Ann D'Amore · 1985 to 2026
$25.5M
Ocular Immune Regulation by Mesenchymal Stem CellsR01EY024602 · NEI · SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI CHAUHAN, SUNIL K · 2015 to 2025
$6.5M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY003790NEI NIH HHS P30EY003790NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024602NEI NIH HHS R01EY024602
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and regulatory T cells (Tregs) both have been shown to modulate the alloimmune response and promote transplant survival. Mounting evidence suggests that MSCs augment Treg function, but the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon have not been fully deciphered. Here, we identified that MSCs express substantial levels of CD80 and evaluated its immunoregulatory function using in vivo and in vitro experiments. Our in vitro culture assays demonstrated that MSCs induce expression of FoxP3 in Tregs in a contact-dependent manner, and the blockade of CD80 abrogates this FoxP3 induction and Treg-mediated suppression of T cell proliferation. Moreover, supplementation of soluble CD80 significantly upregulated FoxP3 expression. Using a well-characterized murine model of corneal transplantation, we show that silencing CD80 in MSCs diminishes the capacity of MSCs to promote selective graft infiltration of Tregs, promote FoxP3 expression and upregulate suppressive function of Tregs. Consequently, MSCs, following CD80 knockdown, failed to promote corneal allograft survival.

Indexed as

Mesenchymal Stem CellsMesenchymal Stem Cell TransplantationAllograftsAnimalsForkhead Transcription FactorsMiceT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryTransplantation, HomologousForkhead Transcription Factorsbasic (laboratory) research/sciencecorneal transplantation/ophthalmologyexperimentalimmune regulationtolerance

Identifiers

PMID35170213
PMCPMC11261724
OpenAlexW4212970509

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