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Team:Stanford/Project Homeostasis/Immunosuppression Device
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| Research Proposal |
| Systems Overview |
| Cloning Plan |
| Sequences & Primers |
| Anti-Inflammation |
| Device Overview |
| Parts Design |
| Challenges |
| Results |
| Anti-Immunosuppression |
| Device Overview |
| Parts Design |
| Challenges |
| Results |
| Protocols |
| Modeling |
| Overview |
| Notebook |
| Results |
| Future Work |
| Archived Work |
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Summary
The anti-immunosuppressive device consists of two components: a sensor and a responder. The sensor will detect local concentrations of a marker indicative of Treg-driven immunosuppression. When the levels of this input signal reach above a certain baseline threshold, the sensor will induce activity from the responder. The resulting output signal will modify the local cytokine milieu to support differentiation of pro-inflammatory Th17 cells and repress the immunosuppressive Treg lineage.
Parts Designs
Page Covering Our Parts Designs
Comments
- Rather than looking at metabolic changes due to Th17 cells, maybe we should look at precursor changes that result in Th17 differentiation. Think of it as a feed forward mechanism. I am thinking in particular things that are affected by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryl_hydrocarbon_receptor Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor (AHR]) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR-related_orphan_receptor_gamma RAR-related orphan receptor gamma (RORy)].
- Check out this paper on Th17 And Treg control. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/abs/nature06880.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7191/abs/nature06880.html]
Other Considerations
To what extent will 5-methyltryptophan inhibit growth of our machine? 5-methyltryptophan has been identified as an antimetabolite that induces false feedback inhibition of the trp biosynthetic pathway.
Other potential "input" signals: IL-10, TGF-beta, byproducts of HO-1 Other potential "output" signals: IL-17, IL-1-beta, CpG DNA, TLR stimuli
Challenges
Results
Sources
Treg markers/possible input signals
- [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W6V-4M3HY5V-1&_user=145269&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000012078&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=145269&md5=0076999d0ef47249448a4a08db8f4fa5 Oliveira et al.] Regulatory T cell maintenance of dominant tolerance: induction of tissue self-defense? Transpl Immunol. 2006 Dec;17(1):7-10. Epub 2006 Oct 12. Mentions the small molecule markers produced as a result of Treg-induction of IDO and HO-1.
Trp analogues
- [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=207163 Heatwole et al.] Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and characterization of mtr, the structural gene for a tryptophan-specific permease of Escherichia coli K-12. J Bacteriol. 1991 January; 173(1): 108–115.
- [http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=251384 Kuhn et al.] Mutant Strains of Escherichia coli K-12 Exhibiting Enhanced Sensitivity to 5-Methyltryptophan. J Bacteriol. 1972 October; 112(1): 93–101.
