Chicken IL-18BP
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Project description:Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a chronic liver disease associated with hepatic inflammation and fibrosis. Inflammasome-mediated IL-18 signaling is enhanced under MASH condition. IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP) is a soluble protein that can block IL-18 actions and therapeutic potential of IL-18BP for MASH-induced fibrosis is largely unknown. We newly developed a human IL-18BP biologics (APB-R3) and injected it to mice to evaluate its pharmacologic efficacy. APB-R3 strikingly abolished hepatic fibrosis and reduced collagen markers. We further investigated whether APB-R3 could inhibit fibrotic activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). This study proposes that abrogation of IL-18 signaling by boosting IL-18BP can strongly inhibit the development of MASH-induced fibrosis and our engineered IL-18BP biologics can become promising therapeutic candidate for curing MASH.
2024-10-18 | GSE279496 | GEO
Project description:Recombinant cytokines were the first modern immunotherapies to produce durable cures in metastatic cancer, but their application has been hampered by only modest efficacy and limited tolerability. Next-generation cytokine therapies are therefore under development to overcome the biological limitations of native cytokines. By analyzing single-cell transcriptomic data from tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL), we found that components of the Interleukin-18 (IL-18) pathway are upregulated on activated and dysfunctional TIL, suggesting that IL-18 therapy could potentially restore anti-tumor immunity by stimulating these key effector cells. However, recombinant IL-18 therapy has consistently failed to demonstrate anti-tumor efficacy in clinical trials. Here we show that the secreted, high-affinity decoy receptor IL-18BP is frequently upregulated in the tumor microenvironment of diverse human cancers and syngeneic murine tumor models. Using directed evolution, we engineered a ‘decoy-resistant’ IL-18 (DR-18), which maintains signaling potential, but is impervious to binding and inhibition by IL-18BP. In contrast to wild-type IL-18, DR-18 exhibits potent anti-tumor efficacy as monotherapy and in combination with anti-PD-1 checkpoint immunotherapy in multiple tumor models. Mechanistically, DR-18 drives the development of poly-functional effector CD8+ T cells, decreases the prevalence of exhausted CD8+ T cells expressing the transcription factor TOX, and expands the pool of TCF1+ precursor CD8+ T cells. DR-18 also enhances NK cell activity and maturation to effectively treat anti-PD-1 resistant tumors that have lost MHC class I surface expression. Together, these results highlight the IL-18 pathway as a powerful target for immunotherapeutic intervention and implicate the secreted immune checkpoint IL-18BP as an obstacle to effective IL-18 immunotherapy.
2020-06-29 | GSE146609 | GEO
Project description:Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) is a chronic liver disease associated with hepatic inflammation and fibrosis. Inflammasome-mediated IL-18 signaling is enhanced under MASH condition. IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP) is a soluble protein that can block IL-18 actions and therapeutic potential of IL-18BP for MASH-induced fibrosis is largely unknown. We newly developed a human IL-18BP biologics (APB-R3) and injected it to mice to evaluate its pharmacologic efficacy. APB-R3 strikingly abolished hepatic fibrosis and reduced collagen markers. We further investigated whether APB-R3 could inhibit fibrotic activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs). This study proposes that abrogation of IL-18 signaling by boosting IL-18BP can strongly inhibit the development of MASH-induced fibrosis and our engineered IL-18BP biologics can become promising therapeutic candidate for curing MASH.
2024-10-18 | GSE279499 | GEO
Project description:Recombinant cytokines have limited anti-cancer efficacy mostly due to narrow therapeutic window and systemic adverse effects. IL-18 is an inflammasome induced proinflammatory cytokine that enhances T and NK cell activity and stimulates IFNg production. The activity of IL-18 is naturally blocked by a high affinity endogenous binding protein (IL-18BP). IL-18BP is induced in the tumor microenvironment (TME) in response to IFNg upregulation in a negative feedback mechanism. In this study we found that IL-18 is upregulated in the TME compared to the periphery across multiple human tumors and most of it is bound to IL-18BP. Bound IL-18 levels were largely above the amount required for T cell activation in vitro, implying that releasing IL-18 in the TME could lead to potent T cell immune activation. To restore the activity of endogenous IL-18 we generated COM503, a high affinity anti-IL-18BP antibody (Ab), that blocks the IL-18BP:IL-18 interaction and displaces pre-complexed IL-18 to enhance T cell and NK cell activation. In vivo, administration of a surrogate anti-IL-18BP Ab, either alone or in combination with anti-PD-L1 Ab, resulted in significant tumor growth inhibition and increased survival across multiple mouse tumor models. Moreover, anti-IL-18BP Ab induced pronounced TME-localized immune modulation including an increase in polyfunctional non-exhausted T and NK cell numbers and activation. In contrast, no increase in inflammatory cytokines and lymphocyte numbers or activation state was observed in serum and spleen. Taken together, blocking IL-18BP using an Ab is a promising novel approach to harness cytokine biology for the treatment of cancer.
2024-03-15 | GSE239473 | GEO
Project description:IL-18BP is a secreted immune checkpoint and barrier to effective IL-18 immunotherapy
| PRJNA611084 | ENA
Project description:White Leghorn chicken eggs were incubated for 18 days and dissected. Brain, breast muscle, bursa Fabricii, heart, kidney, liver, lung, ovary, spleen, and testicle tissues were sampled.
2015-07-15 | PXD002403 | Pride
Project description:NK cells are an emerging cancer cellular therapy and potent mediators of anti-tumor immunity. Cytokine-induced memory-like (ML) NK cellular therapy is safe and induces remissions in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients. However, the dynamic molecular changes that occur after memory-like differentiation in vitro are unclear. Here, control or ML NK cells purified from normal donor PBMC were generated in vitro. Briefly, RosetteSep-purified NK cells were incubated in IL-12, IL-15, and IL-18, or low-dose IL-15 as a control for 16-18 hours. Control or cytokine-activated NK cells were washed three times and cultured for 6 days in low-dose IL-15, which is required for NK cell survival. After 6 days, RNA was isolated from control and memory-like (ML) NK cells (IL12/15/18 activation) and RNA-sequencing performed. Because the transcription factor GATA-3 was increased specifically in ML NK cells, we hypothesized ML NK cells would exhibit a GATA-3 gene signature compared to control NK cells. Indeed, using GSEA, a significant gene signature was associated with ML NK cell differentiation. These data support the role for GATA-3 in regulating the ML NK cell molecular program.
2020-08-25 | GSE154694 | GEO
Project description:Fulminant viral hepatitis (FVH) is a devastating and unexplained condition that strikes otherwise healthy individuals during primary infection with common liver-tropic viruses. We report a child who died of FVH upon infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV) at age 11 yr and who was homozygous for a private 40-nucleotide deletion in IL18BP, which encodes the IL-18 binding protein (IL-18BP). This mutation is loss-of-function, unlike the variants found in a homozygous state in public databases. We show that human IL-18 and IL-18BP are both secreted mostly by hepatocytes and macrophages in the liver. Moreover, in the absence of IL-18BP, excessive NK cell activation by IL-18 results in uncontrolled killing of human hepatocytes in vitro. Inherited human IL-18BP deficiency thus underlies fulminant HAV hepatitis by unleashing IL-18. These findings provide proof-of-principle that FVH can be caused by single-gene inborn errors that selectively disrupt liver-specific immunity. They also show that human IL-18 is toxic to the liver and that IL-18BP is its antidote.
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Project description:Interleukin-27 (IL-27) can partially reduce tumor growth in several animal models, including pros-tate cancer. We describe our findings on the effects of IL-27 gene delivery on prostate cancer cells and how sequential therapy with IL-18 enhances the efficacy of IL-27. We applied IL-27 and IL-18 deliv-ery with the goal of reducing prostate tumor growth, first in cell culture and then in an immunocom-petent mouse model. The combination of IL-27 followed by IL-18 (2718) successfully reduced can-cer cell viability, with significant effects found for a particular combination sequence. Interestingly, when we compared the 2718 combination with a single cytokine targeted to IL-6R via an oligo-peptide (27pepL) recently developed by our group, we observed similar efficacy. This efficacy was further enhanced when 27pepL was sequenced with IL-18 (27pepL18)
2021-07-27 | GSE178142 | GEO
Project description:The genetic closeness and divergent muscle growth rates of broilers and layers make them great models for myogenesis study. In order to discover the molecular mechanisms determining the divergent muscle growth rates and muscle fiber sizes in different chicken lines, we systematically identified differentially expressed genes between broilers and layers during muscle development (embyonic day 10, 12, 14 and 18) by microarray hybridization experiment.
2011-03-18 | GSE20990 | GEO