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Engineering antigens for in situ erythrocyte binding induces T-cell deletion

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Stephane Kontos, Iraklis Kourtis, Karen Dane

Antigens derived from apoptotic cell debris can drive clonal T-cell deletion or anergy, and antigens chemically coupled ex vivo to apoptotic cell surfaces have been shown correspondingly to induce tolerance on infusion. Reasoning that a large number of ery ...

Natl Acad Sciences2013

Tunable T cell immunity towards a protein antigen using polymersomes vs. solid-core nanoparticles

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Armando Stano, Karen Dane

Using poly(propylene sulfide) (PPS) and poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) as components of a nanocarrier platform, we sought to compare immune responses induced by PPS-bl-PEG polymersomes (PSs; watery-core structures, with antigen incorporated within the PSs) an ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

Erythrocyte-binding therapeutics

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Stephane Kontos, Karen Dane

Peptides that specifically bind erythrocytes are described. These are provided as peptidic ligands having sequences that specifically bind, or as antibodies or fragments thereof that provide specific binding, to erythrocytes. The peptides may be prepared a ...

2013

Polymer micelles with pyridyl disulfide-coupled antigen travel through lymphatics and show enhanced cellular responses following immunization

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Conlin O'Neil, Jackson Eby, Sachiko Hirosue, Karen Dane

Poly(ethylene glycol)-stabilized poly(propylene sulfide) core (PEG-PPS) nanoparticles (NPs) smaller than 50 nm efficiently travel to draining lymph nodes and interact with antigen-presenting cells (APCs) to induce potent immune responses following intrader ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

Nano-sized drug-loaded micelles deliver payload to lymph node immune cells and prolong allograft survival

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Conlin O'Neil, Alice Anna Tomei, Jackson Eby, Karen Dane

By delivering immunomodulatory drugs in vivo directly to lymph nodes draining an injection site, an opportunity exists to increase drug bioavailability to local immune cells. Importantly, particles smaller than 100 nm are efficiently transported through ly ...

Elsevier2011

Nanoparticle conjugation of antigen enhances cytotoxic T-cell responses in pulmonary vaccination

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Marie Ballester, Armando Stano, Karen Dane, Benjamin John Marsland

The ability of vaccines to induce memory cytotoxic T-cell responses in the lung is crucial in stemming and treating pulmonary diseases caused by viruses and bacteria. However, most approaches to subunit vaccines produce primarily humoral and only to a less ...

National Academy of Sciences2011