Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: UMLS:C0014070 (encephalomyelitis)
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Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) is a T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease. Chemokine receptor CCR5 has been shown to be essential for the T-cell recruitment to the inflammatory site in EAE. In this study, we assumed that an immunotoxin directed at CCR5+ cells would be able to reduce the disease activity of EAE. A recombinant immunotoxin, DT390-RANTES-SRalpha, was constructed in an eukaryotic cell expression plasmid consisting of regulated on activation normal T cells expressed and secreted (RANTES) as the targeting moiety and DT390 as the toxic moiety. DT390-RANTES was expressed in vitro and was highly toxic to activated mouse T cells with the inhibitory concentration 50 at 0.18 ng/ml. To evaluate whether DT390-RANTES was effective in preventing EAE, C57BL/6 mice were immunized with myelin basic protein, emulsified with complete Freund's adjuvant and were treated by injecting cationic liposome-embedded plasmid DNA into the muscle of hind limbs. Mice treated with DT390-RANTES-SRalpha developed a much milder EAE compared to mice treated with phosphate-buffered saline or the empty plasmid DNA. Much less CCR5+-infiltrating cells were found in the central nervous system in DT390-RANTES-SRalpha-treated mice than in the control mice. This study indicates that recombinant immunotoxin can be expressed in vivo, and targeting CCR5 can attenuate the disease activity of EAE in mice.
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PMID:Prevention of murine experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by in vivo expression of a novel recombinant immunotoxin DT390-RANTES. 1670 76