Immunomodulatory function of licensed human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cell-derived apoptotic bodies
Wang, Jiemin Donohoe, Ellen Canning, Aoife Moosavizadeh, Seyedmohammad Buckley, Fiona Brennan, Meadhbh Á. Ryan, Aideen E. Ritter, Thomas
Wang, Jiemin
Donohoe, Ellen
Canning, Aoife
Moosavizadeh, Seyedmohammad
Buckley, Fiona
Brennan, Meadhbh Á.
Ryan, Aideen E.
Ritter, Thomas
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2023-10-23
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Wang, Jiemin, Donohoe, Ellen, Canning, Aoife, Moosavizadeh, Seyedmohammad, Buckley, Fiona, Brennan, Meadhbh Á, Ryan, Aideen E., Ritter, Thomas. (2023). Immunomodulatory function of licensed human bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cell-derived apoptotic bodies. International Immunopharmacology, 125, 111096. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intimp.2023.111096
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Background Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show great potential for immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory treatments. Clinical trials have been performed for the treatment of Type 1 diabetes, graft-versus-host disease and organ transplantation, which offer a promise of MSCs as an immunomodulatory therapy. Nevertheless, their unstable efficacy and immunogenicity concerns present challenges to clinical translation. It has emerged that the MSC-derived secretome, which includes secreted proteins, exosomes, apoptotic bodies (ABs) and other macromolecules, may have similar therapeutic effects to parent MSCs. Among all of the components of the MSC-derived secretome, most interest thus far has been garnered by exosomes for their therapeutic potential. However, since MSCs were reported to undergo apoptosis after in vivo transplantation and release ABs, we speculated as to whether ABs have immunomodulatory effects. In this study, cytokine licensing was used to enhance the immunomodulatory potency of MSCs and ABs derived from licensed MSCs in vitro were isolated to explore their immunomodulatory effects as an effective non-viable cell therapy. Results IFN-γ and IFN-γ/TGF-β1 licensing enhanced the immunomodulatory effect of MSCs on T cell proliferation. Further, TGF-β1 and IFN-γ licensing strengthened the immunomodulatory effect of MSC on reducing the TNF-α and IL-1β expression by M1 macrophage-like THP-1 cells. Additionally, we discovered the immunomodulatory effect mediated by MSC-derived apoptotic bodies. Licensing impacted the uptake of ABs by recipient immune cells and importantly altered their phenotypes. Conclusion ABs derived from IFN-γ/TGF-β1-licensed apoptotic MSCs significantly inhibited T cell proliferation, induced more regulatory T cells, and maintained immunomodulatory T cells but reduced pro-inflammatory T cells.
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Elsevier
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10.1016/j.intimp.2023.111096
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Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)