Single-cell RNAseq identifies clonally expanded antigen-specific T-cells following intradermal injection of gold nanoparticles loaded with diabetes autoantigen in humans

Hanna, Stephanie J., Thayer, Terri C., Robinson, Emma J. S., Vinh, Ngoc-Nga, Williams, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-6931, Landry, Laurie G., Andrews, Robert, Siah, Qi Zhuang, Leete, Pia, Wyatt, Rebecca, McAteer, Martina A., Nakayama, Maki, Wong, F. Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2812-8845, Yang, Jennie H. M., Tree, Timothy I. M., Ludvigsson, Johnny, Dayan, Colin M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6557-3462 and Tatovic, Danijela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3879-2686 2023. Single-cell RNAseq identifies clonally expanded antigen-specific T-cells following intradermal injection of gold nanoparticles loaded with diabetes autoantigen in humans. Frontiers in Immunology 14 , 1276255. 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1276255

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Abstract

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have been used in the development of novel therapies as a way of delivery of both stimulatory and tolerogenic peptide cargoes. Here we report that intradermal injection of GNPs loaded with the proinsulin peptide C19-A3, in patients with type 1 diabetes, results in recruitment and retention of immune cells in the skin. These include large numbers of clonally expanded T-cells sharing the same paired T-cell receptors (TCRs) with activated phenotypes, half of which, when the TCRs were re-expressed in a cell-based system, were confirmed to be specific for either GNP or proinsulin. All the identified gold-specific clones were CD8+, whilst proinsulin-specific clones were both CD8+ and CD4+. Proinsulin-specific CD8+ clones had a distinctive cytotoxic phenotype with overexpression of granulysin (GNLY) and KIR receptors. Clonally expanded antigen-specific T cells remained in situ for months to years, with a spectrum of tissue resident memory and effector memory phenotypes. As the T-cell response is divided between targeting the gold core and the antigenic cargo, this offers a route to improving resident memory T-cells formation in response to vaccines. In addition, our scRNAseq data indicate that focusing on clonally expanded skin infiltrating T-cells recruited to intradermally injected antigen is a highly efficient method to enrich and identify antigen-specific cells. This approach has the potential to be used to monitor the intradermal delivery of antigens and nanoparticles for immune modulation in humans.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher:	Frontiers Media
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 October 2023
Date of Acceptance:	2 October 2023
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2023 09:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163574

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