Journal article
Short-term inhibition of p53 combined with keratinocyte growth factor improves thymic epithelial cell recovery and enhances T-cell reconstitution after murine bone marrow transplantation
Ryan M Kelly, Emily M Goren, Patricia A Taylor, Scott N Mueller, Heather E Stefanski, Mark J Osborn, Hamish S Scott, Elena A Komarova, Andrei V Gudkov, Georg A Hollaender, Bruce R Blazar
BLOOD | AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY | Published : 2010
Abstract
Myeloablative conditioning before bone marrow transplantation (BMT) results in thymic epithelial cell (TEC) injury, T-cell immune deficiency, and susceptibility to opportunistic infections. Conditioning regimen-induced TEC damage directly contributes to slow thymopoietic recovery after BMT. Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) is a TEC mitogen that stimulates proliferation and, when given before conditioning, reduces TEC injury. Some TEC subsets are refractory to KGF and functional T-cell responses are not fully restored in KGF-treated BM transplant recipients. Therefore, we investigated whether the addition of a pharmacologic inhibitor, PFT-beta, to transiently inhibit p53 during radiotherapy c..
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Funding Acknowledgements
[ "We thank Drs Philippe Bouillet and Andreas Strasser for providing Bim<SUP>-/-</SUP> mice, Dr Sing Sing Way (University of Minnesota) for providing Lm-OVA, Drs Chris Contag and Jonathan Hardy (Stanford University) for providing Lm- 2C, and Ann Bohac (Oligonucleotide & Peptide Synthesis Facility, BioMedical Genomics Center, University of Minnesota) for help with primer design and for rapid and reliable primer synthesis. We also thank Steven Highfill for critical reading of the manuscript.", "This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (grants R01-HL073794, R01-HL55209, R01-A1057477-01, R01A1057477-01, R01-CA75179, P01CA067493), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF; grant 3100-68310.02), the Children's Cancer Research Fund (CCRF), and a grant from the European Community 6th Framework Program Eurothymaid Integrated Project. We acknowledge the use of the confocal microscope made available through a National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) Shared Instrumentation Grant (no. 1 S10 RR16851)." ]