Limited effect of CpG ODN in preventing type 1 diabetes in NOD mice.
Type 1 diabetes is considered as Th1 cell mediated autoimmune disease and the suppression of Th1 cells or the activation of Th2 cells has been regarded as a plausible immunologic intervention for the prevention of type 1 diabetogenesis in a rodent model. CpG ODN is an immunostimulatory sequence primarily present in bacterial DNA, viral DNA and BCG. CpG ODN is conventionally classified as a Th1 cell activator, which has been clinically applied to cancer, allergy and infectious disease. Recently, there was a promising report of that CpG ODN administration suppressed the development of type 1 diabetes in NOD mice by inducing Th2 cell mediated cytokine. However, the antidiabetogenic effect of CpG ODN on NOD mice is controversial. Thus, two studies were serially undertaken with various kinds of CpG motif to find a more optimal sequence and administration method. In the first study, CpG ODN was vaccinated four times and pancreatic inflammation and the quantity of serum insulin subsequently evaluated. In the second study, the amounts of IFN gamma and IL-4 in sera were measured as representative cytokines of Th1 and Th2 cells, respectively. As a result, vaccination or continuous injection of CpG ODN failed to show a preventive effect on type 1 diabetogenesis in NOD mice. Structural differences of CpG ODN also had no affect on the result. CpG ODN also consistently showed affect on the pancreatic pathology. The productions of IFN gamma and IL-4 were detected only in the K and D type CpG ODN administration groups. Comparison of the two cytokines leads to the conclusion that CpG ODN generated a Th1-weighted response in both study groups. It was assumed that CpG ODN failed to produce Th2-weighted cytokine milieu, which can overcome the genetically determined phenotype of NOD mice. Given these results, it was concluded that the immunotherapeutic application of CpG ODN on Type 1 diabetes had clear limitations.
Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, 162 Ilsan-dong, Wonju-si, Gangwon 220-701, Korea.
Byong Jun
BJ
Lee
Soo Kie
SK
Kim
Moon Kyu
MK
Kim
Eon Sub
ES
Park
Hyun Chul
HC
Cho
Myung Sook
MS
Shim
Mi Jin
MJ
Kim
Young Goo
YG
Shin
Choon Hee
CH
Chung
D000818:Animals; D004247:DNA / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000276:immunology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D051379:Mice; D016688:Mice, Inbred NOD; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D018417:Th1 Cells / Q000276:immunology*
C423450:CpG ODN 1585; C423449:CpG ODN 1826; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D004247:DNA