Hu Xiaomeng, White Kathy, Olroyd Ari G, Friera Annabelle, Wang Chenyan, Caruso Carolin B, Connolly Andrew J, Deuse Tobias, Schrepfer Sonja
Sana Biotechnology Inc., 1 Tower Place, South San Francisco, CA, USA.
Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
iScience. 2025 May 31;28(7):112806. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112806. eCollection 2025 Jul 18.
Hypoimmune (HIP) MHC class I- and II-deficient and CD47-overexpressing CD19 CAR T cells were generated and tested in an allogeneic NZB/W mouse model of spontaneous systemic lupus erythematosus with established disease. HIP CAR T cells showed persistent engraftment, achieved lasting deep tissue B cell depletion, diminished antibody levels and systemic pro-inflammatory cytokine levels, mitigated proteinuria and glucosuria, alleviated structural kidney injury, and improved survival after 21 weeks. HIP CAR T cells did not induce any immune activation in this fully allogeneic model and thus completely escaped allorejection. In contrast, MHC-replete, non-HIP-edited wild-type (WT) CD19 CAR T cells induced a strong adaptive immune response and vanished quickly without inducing meaningful B cell depletion and without improving disease markers or survival. Conditioning of NZB/W mice with irradiation did not enhance the HIP CAR T cell efficacy and might hint at their potency for autoimmune patients without prior lymphodepletion.
制备了低免疫(HIP)的MHC I类和II类缺陷且CD47过表达的CD19嵌合抗原受体(CAR)T细胞,并在患有自发性系统性红斑狼疮且疾病已确诊的同种异体NZB/W小鼠模型中进行了测试。HIP CAR T细胞表现出持续植入,实现了持久的深部组织B细胞耗竭,降低了抗体水平和全身促炎细胞因子水平,减轻了蛋白尿和糖尿,减轻了肾脏结构损伤,并在21周后提高了生存率。在这个完全同种异体模型中,HIP CAR T细胞没有诱导任何免疫激活,因此完全避免了同种异体排斥。相比之下,MHC完整、未进行HIP编辑的野生型(WT)CD19 CAR T细胞诱导了强烈的适应性免疫反应,并迅速消失,没有诱导有意义的B细胞耗竭,也没有改善疾病指标或生存率。用辐射对NZB/W小鼠进行预处理并没有增强HIP CAR T细胞的疗效,这可能暗示了它们对未经预先淋巴细胞清除的自身免疫患者的效力。