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Regulatory T-cell adoptive immunotherapy: potential for treatment of autoimmunity

Graham P Wright Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK;[email protected]
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Michael R Ehrenstein Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK; Centre for Rheumatology, University College London, Windeyer Building, 46 Cleveland Street, London, W1T 4JF, UK
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Hans J Stauss Department of Immunology, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, Rowlandhill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK; Department of Immunology, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, Rowlandhill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK
Pages 213-225 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014
 
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Abstract

Tregs have shown considerable potential in treating preclinical models of autoimmunity. These studies have highlighted the importance of Treg antigen (Ag) specificity. Translation of these promising results to the clinic will require a robust method of generating large pure populations of Ag-specific Tregs. These include the recently described T-cell receptor gene transfer approach, which has proven to be a rapid and reliable method to generate large populations of Ag-specific Tregs. In this article, we will examine these various approaches and discuss their relative merits. Furthermore, we will discuss the obstacles that need to be surmounted to allow adoptive Treg therapy to progress to the clinic for the benefit of autoimmune patients.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

Hans J Stauss is a consultant for Cell Medica. Graham P Wright is supported by an Arthritis Research UK fellowship (19225). The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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