用于人初始B细胞体外扩增和分化的基于微珠的合成小生境。

Microbead-based synthetic niches for in vitro expansion and differentiation of human naïve B-cells.

作者信息

Suthanthiraraj Pearlson Prashanth Austin, Bone Sydney, Roh Kyung-Ho

机构信息

Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville Alabama USA.

Biotechnology Science and Engineering Program The University of Alabama in Huntsville Huntsville Alabama USA.

出版信息

Bioeng Transl Med. 2025 Jan 17;10(3):e10751. doi: 10.1002/btm2.10751. eCollection 2025 May.

Abstract

As the prospect of engineering primary B-cells for cellular therapies in cancer, autoimmune diseases, and infectious diseases grows, there is an increasing demand for robust in vitro culture systems that effectively activate human B-cells isolated from peripheral blood for consistent and efficient expansion and differentiation into various effector phenotypes. Feeder cell-based systems have shown promise in providing long-term signaling for expanding B-cells in vitro. However, these co-culture systems necessitate more rigorous downstream processing to prevent various feeder cell-related contaminations in the final product, which limits their clinical potential. In this study, we introduce a microbead-based CD40L-presentation platform for stable and consistent activation of human naïve B-cells. By employing a completely synthetic in vitro culture approach integrating B-cell receptor, CD21 co-receptor, toll-like receptor (TLR-9), and cytokine signals, we demonstrate that naïve B-cells can differentiate into memory B-cells (IgD-CD38-/lo + CD27+) and antibody-secreting cells (IgD-CD38++CD27+). During this process, B-cells underwent up to a 50-fold expansion, accompanied by isotype class switching and low levels of somatic hypermutation, mimicking physiological events within the germinal center. The reproducible generation of highly expanded and differentiated effector B-cells from naïve B-cells of multiple donors positions this feeder-free in vitro synthetic niche as a promising platform for large-scale production of effector B-cell therapeutics.

摘要

随着利用原代B细胞进行癌症、自身免疫性疾病和感染性疾病细胞治疗的前景不断拓展,人们对强大的体外培养系统的需求日益增加,该系统要能有效激活从外周血中分离出的人类B细胞,以实现持续且高效的扩增,并分化为各种效应细胞表型。基于饲养细胞的系统已显示出在体外扩增B细胞方面提供长期信号的潜力。然而,这些共培养系统需要更严格的下游处理,以防止最终产品中出现各种与饲养细胞相关的污染,这限制了它们的临床应用潜力。在本研究中,我们引入了一种基于微珠的CD40L呈递平台,用于稳定且一致地激活人类幼稚B细胞。通过采用一种完全合成的体外培养方法,整合B细胞受体、CD21共受体、Toll样受体(TLR-9)和细胞因子信号,我们证明幼稚B细胞可分化为记忆B细胞(IgD-CD38-/lo+CD27+)和抗体分泌细胞(IgD-CD38++CD27+)。在此过程中,B细胞扩增了多达50倍,同时伴有同种型类别转换和低水平的体细胞高频突变,模拟了生发中心内的生理事件。从多个供体的幼稚B细胞中可重复生成高度扩增和分化的效应B细胞,这使得这个无饲养细胞的体外合成微环境成为大规模生产效应B细胞疗法的一个有前景的平台。

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