Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Transposon-modified antigen-specific T lymphocytes for sustained therapeutic protein delivery in vivo

  • Richard T. O’Neil,
  • Sunandan Saha,
  • Ruth Ann Veach,
  • Richard C. Welch,
  • Lauren E. Woodard,
  • Cliona M. Rooney,
  • Matthew H. Wilson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03787-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Delivery of therapeutic proteins to patients may be costly to administer, and often requires repeated injections. Here, the authors use antigen-specific T cells expressing erythropoietin, and show that following transfer in mice, cell expansion and erythropoietin production can be boosted by vaccination, raising the haematocrit.