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Immunomodulation via targeted inhibition of antigen receptor signal transduction

Andrew E Schade1, Gonzalo Gonzalez-Stawinski

  • 1Department of Clinical Pathology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. schadea@ccf.org

Cardiovascular & Hematological Disorders Drug Targets
|March 14, 2008
PubMed

Coronary artery vasculopathy (CAV), characterized by diffuse concentric coronary artery intimal thickening with fibrosis, remains a significant complication impeding long term engraftment in heart transplantation. The pathophysiologic processes driving CAV are not well understood, however T cell mediated cellular immunity and cytokines have been implicated. The inability to prevent CAV may be related in part to a limited spectrum of inhibition that that current immunosuppressive therapies exhibit against second messenger pathways elicited by T cell receptor (TCR) activation and dose limiting toxicities. Therefore, considering that antigen specific T cell activation is initiated at the TCR, including alloresponses involving direct and indirect antigen presentation, targeting the proximal kinases involved in this process may provide novel therapeutic options for controlling rejection. Src family kinases (SFK), particularly p56(lck) (Lck) and p59(fyn) (Fyn), are intimately associated with the earliest signaling events through the TCR and could provide targets for immunomodulatory agents. Such targeted inhibition of TCR signaling may institute a novel approach for diminishing the T cell mediated response associated with CAV. In this review we discuss therapeutic agents that have been shown to inhibit SFK and the rationale for investigating the potential application of these agents in heart transplantation.

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