PMID- 23810844 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140317 LR - 20230708 IS - 1523-6536 (Electronic) IS - 1083-8791 (Linking) VI - 19 IP - 9 DP - 2013 Sep TI - Enrichment of IL-12-producing plasmacytoid dendritic cells in donor bone marrow grafts enhances graft-versus-leukemia activity in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. PG - 1331-9 LID - S1083-8791(13)00287-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbmt.2013.06.016 [doi] AB - A critical question in the field of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is how to enhance graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) activity while limiting graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD). We have previously reported that donor bone marrow (BM) precursors of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pre-pDCs) can polarize donor T cells toward Th1 immunity and augment the GVL activity of donor T cells while attenuating their GVHD activity in a murine model of allogeneic HSCT. Clinical data on the role of donor pre-pDCs and conventional DCs (cDCs) on transplantation outcomes has been conflicting. To test the effect of increasing the proportion of pre-pDCs versus cDCs in a BM graft, we enriched CD11b(-) pDCs by selectively depleting the CD11b(+) myeloid DC (mDC) population from BM using FACS sorting in a murine model of allogeneic BM transplantation. Donor T cell expansion and GVL activity were greater in mice that received BM depleted of mDCs compared with mice that received undepleted BM. GVHD was not increased by depleting mDCs. To examine the mechanism through which mDC depletion enhances the GVL activity of donor T cells, we used BM and pDCs from IL-12p40KO mice, and found that the increased GVL activity of mDC-depleted BM was IL-12-dependent. This study indicates that a clinically translatable strategy of engineering the DC content of grafts can improve clinical outcomes in allogeneic HSCT through the regulation of donor T cell activation and GVL activity. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Darlak, Katarzyna A AU - Darlak KA AD - Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. FAU - Wang, Ying AU - Wang Y FAU - Li, Jian-Ming AU - Li JM FAU - Harris, Wayne A C AU - Harris WA FAU - Owens, Lauren M AU - Owens LM FAU - Waller, Edmund K AU - Waller EK LA - eng GR - R01 CA074364/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 CA188523/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 AI145231/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20130627 PL - United States TA - Biol Blood Marrow Transplant JT - Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation JID - 9600628 RN - 187348-17-0 (Interleukin-12) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bone Marrow Transplantation/*methods MH - Cell Proliferation MH - Dendritic Cells/immunology/*transplantation MH - Graft vs Host Disease/immunology MH - Graft vs Leukemia Effect/immunology MH - Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation/*methods MH - Interleukin-12/biosynthesis/*immunology MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - T-Lymphocytes/immunology/transplantation MH - Transplantation, Homologous OTO - NOTNLM OT - Dendritic cell T cell OT - Graft-versus-leukemia OT - IL-12 EDAT- 2013/07/03 06:00 MHDA- 2014/03/19 06:00 CRDT- 2013/07/02 06:00 PHST- 2012/10/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/06/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/07/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/07/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/03/19 06:00 [medline] AID - S1083-8791(13)00287-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbmt.2013.06.016 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2013 Sep;19(9):1331-9. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2013.06.016. Epub 2013 Jun 27.