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2050 Identifying the role and immunobiological mechanisms of Fli-1 mediated pathogenicity in graft Versus host disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2018

Steven Schutt
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Yongxia Wu
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Anusara Daenthanasanmak
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
David Bastian
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Carole Wilson
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Lynn Schnapp
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Xian Zhang
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Xue-Zhong Yu
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Hung Nguyen
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Mohammed Hanief Sofi
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
Supinya Iamsuwat
Affiliation:
Medical University of South Carolina
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Abstract

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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is a curative procedure for hematological malignancies. Chronic graft Versus host disease (cGVHD) is a lethal complication that often develops after allo-HCT. Fli-1 is an aberrantly expressed protein in cancers including erythroleukemia and melanoma, while being implicated in pathogenesis of systemic lupus in mice and humans, a disease with marked similarity to cGVHD. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: cGVHD was induced using hematopoietic cells from conditional knock-out mice deficient for the fli-1 gene specifically on T cells and progression of cGVHD in murine allo-HCT recipients was monitored using a clinical scoring system, and changes in activation status of hematopoietic cell populations were quantified using flow cytometry. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Recipients transplanted with fli-1 deficient T cells exhibited reduced cGVHD clinical scores compared with littermate wild-type controls. Donor-grafts containing fli-1 deficient T cells were associated with restrained T-cell responses including reduced Interferon-y cytokine production, PD-1 expression, and differentiation into follicular helper T cells. fli-1 T-cell deficient donor-grafts also improved donor B-cell reconstitution and reduced plasma cells in allo-HCT recipients relative to littermate wild-type control donor-graft recipients. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Thus, inhibiting Fli-1 represents a promising therapeutic strategy for the goal of preventing cGVHD after allo-HCT while also directly targeting cancers which aberrantly express Fli-1.

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