Hu Xiaomeng, Tediashvili Grigol, Gravina Alessia, Stoddard Jonathan, McGill Trevor J, Connolly Andrew J, Deuse Tobias, Schrepfer Sonja
Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI)-Lab, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Sana Biotechnology Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 18;16(1):3706. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58774-7.
Allogeneic, immune-evasive hypoimmune (HIP) cell therapeutics that are HLA-depleted and overexpress CD47 create the opportunity to treat immunocompetent patients with cancer, degenerative, or autoimmune diseases. However, HIP cell therapy has not yet been established for xenotransplantation. Here we engineer, for human-to-non-human primate studies, human HIP* endothelial cells (EC) that are HLA-depleted and express macaque CD47 to allow compatibility with the macaque SIRPα immune checkpoint. Although no T cell, NK cell, or macrophage responses and no antibody-dependent cytotoxicity is observed in cynomolgus recipients, we reveal that macaque polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) show strong xenogeneic cytotoxicity against HIP* ECs. Inhibition of PMN killing using a multi-drug regimen leads to improved xenogeneic human HIP* EC survival in cynomolgus monkeys. Similarly, human PMNs show xenoreactivity against pig ECs, which has implications for clinical xenotransplantation. Accordingly, our engineered pig HIP* ECs that are SLA-depleted, overexpress human CD47, and additionally overexpress the PMN-inhibitory ligands CD99 and CD200, are protected against all human adaptive and innate cytotoxicity, including PMNs. In summary, specific targeting of PMN-mediated killing of the transplanted cells might improve outcomes for clinical pig-to-human xenotransplantation.
经过HLA去除并过表达CD47的同种异体免疫逃避低免疫(HIP)细胞疗法为治疗患有癌症、退行性疾病或自身免疫性疾病的免疫功能正常患者创造了机会。然而,HIP细胞疗法尚未在异种移植中确立。在此,我们为人类到非人类灵长类动物的研究设计了人类HIP内皮细胞(EC),这些细胞经过HLA去除并表达猕猴CD47,以使其与猕猴信号调节蛋白α(SIRPα)免疫检查点兼容。尽管在食蟹猴受体中未观察到T细胞、NK细胞或巨噬细胞反应以及抗体依赖性细胞毒性,但我们发现猕猴多形核细胞(PMN)对HIP内皮细胞表现出强烈的异种细胞毒性。使用多药方案抑制PMN杀伤可提高食蟹猴体内异种人类HIP内皮细胞的存活率。同样,人类PMN对猪内皮细胞表现出异种反应性,这对临床异种移植具有重要意义。因此,我们设计的猪HIP内皮细胞经过猪主要组织相容性复合体(SLA)去除、过表达人类CD47,并额外过表达PMN抑制性配体CD99和CD200,可免受所有人类适应性和先天性细胞毒性的影响,包括PMN。总之,特异性靶向PMN介导的对移植细胞的杀伤可能会改善临床猪到人类异种移植的结果。
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