Functional disruption of human leukocyte antigen II in human embryonic stem cell

BACKGROUND: Theoretically human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) have the capacity to self-renew and differentiate into all human cell types. Therefore, the greatest promise of hESCs-based therapy is to replace the damaged tissues of patients suffering from traumatic or degenerative diseases by the exact same type of cells derived from hESCs. Allo-graft immune rejection is one of the obstacles for hESCs-based clinical applications. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) II leads to CD4+ T cells-mediated allograft rejection. Hence, we focus on optimizing hESCs for clinic application through gene modification RESULTS: Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) were used to target MHC class II transactivator (CIITA) in hESCs efficiently. CIITA-/-hESCs did not show any difference in the differentiation potential and self-renewal capacity. Dendritic cells (DCs) derived from CIITA-/-hESCs expressed CD83 and CD86 but without the constitutive HLA II. Fibroblasts derived from CIITA-/-hESCs were powerless in IFN-γ inducible expression of HLA II CONCLUSION: We generated HLA II defected hESCs via deleting CIITA, a master regulator of constitutive and IFN-γ inducible expression of HLA II genes. CIITA-/-hESCs can differentiate into tissue cells with non-HLA II expression. It's promising that CIITA-/-hESCs-derived cells could be used in cell therapy (e.g., T cells and DCs) and escape the attack of receptors' CD4+ T cells, which are the main effector cells of cellular immunity in allograft

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Main Authors:	Chen,Haide, Li,Yang, Lin,Xijuan, Cui,Di, Cui,Chun, Li,Hui, Xiao,Lei
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedad de Biología de Chile 2015
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602015000100059
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