NDLI: Selective death of autoreactive T cells in human diabetes by TNF or TNF receptor 2 agonism

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Author	Ban, Liqin Zhang, Jack Wang, Limei Willem, Kuhtreiber Burger, Douglas Faustman, Denise L.
Abstract	Human autoimmune (AI) diseases are difficult to treat, because immunosuppressive drugs are nonspecific, produce high levels of adverse effects, and are not based on mechanistic understanding of disease. Destroying the rare autoreactive T lymphocytes causing AI diseases would improve treatment. In animal models, TNF selectively kills autoreactive T cells, thereby hampering disease onset or progression. Here, we seek to determine, in fresh human blood, whether TNF or agonists of TNF selectively kill autoreactive T cells, while sparing normal T cells. We isolated highly pure CD4 or CD8 T cells from patients with type 1 diabetes (n = 675), other AI diseases, and healthy controls (n = 512). Using two cell death assays, we found that a subpopulation of CD8, but not CD4, T cells in patients' blood was vulnerable to TNF or TNF agonist-induced death. One agonist for the TNFR2 receptor exhibited a dose-response pattern of killing. In type 1 diabetes, the subpopulation of T cells susceptible to TNF or TNFR2 agonist-induced death was traced specifically to autoreactive T cells to insulin, a known autoantigen. Other activated and memory T cell populations were resistant to TNF-triggered death. This study shows that autoreactive T cells, although rare, can be selectively destroyed in isolated human blood. TNF and a TNFR2 agonist may offer highly targeted therapies, with the latter likely to be less systemically toxic.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0803429105
Ending Page	13649
Page Count	6
Starting Page	13644
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00278424
e-ISSN	10916490
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Issue Number	36
Volume Number	105
Language	English
Publisher	National Academy of Sciences
Publisher Date	2008-09-09
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	National Academy of Sciences
Subject Keyword	General Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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