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4-1BB- mediated immunotherapy of rheumatoid arthritis.

Collagen type II-induced arthritis is a CD4(+) T-cell-dependent chronic inflammation in susceptible DBA/1 mice and represents an animal model of human rheumatoid arthritis. We found that development of this condition, and even established disease, are inhibited by an agonistic anti-4-1BB monoclonal antibody. Anti-4-1BB suppressed serum antibodies to collagen type II and CD4(+) T-cell recall responses to collagen type II. Crosslinking of 4-1BB evoked an antigen-specific, active suppression mechanism that differed from the results of blocking the interaction between 4-1BB and its ligand, 4-1BBL. Anti-4-1BB monoclonal antibodies induced massive, antigen-dependent clonal expansion of CD11c(+)CD8(+) T cells and accumulation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in CD11b(+) monocytes and CD11c(+) dendritic cells. Both anti-interferon-gamma and 1-methyltryptophan, a pharmacological inhibitor of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, reversed the anti-4-1BB effect. We conclude that the suppression of collagen-induced arthritis was caused by an expansion of new CD11c(+)CD8(+) T cells, and that interferon-gamma produced by these cells suppresses antigen-specific CD4(+) T cells through an indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-dependent mechanism.[1]

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  1. 4-1BB-mediated immunotherapy of rheumatoid arthritis. Seo, S.K., Choi, J.H., Kim, Y.H., Kang, W.J., Park, H.Y., Suh, J.H., Choi, B.K., Vinay, D.S., Kwon, B.S. Nat. Med. (2004) [Pubmed]
 
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