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Abstract
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterized by the autoimmune destruction of insulin-producing β cells and involves an interplay between β cells and cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems. We investigated the therapeutic potential of targeting 12-lipoxygenase (12-LOX), an enzyme implicated in inflammatory pathways in β cells and macrophages, using a mouse model in which the endogenous mouse Alox15 gene is replaced by the human ALOX12 gene. Our finding demonstrated that VLX-1005, a potent 12-LOX inhibitor, effectively delayed the onset of autoimmune diabetes in human gene replacement non-obese diabetic mice. By spatial proteomics analysis, VLX-1005 treatment resulted in marked reductions in infiltrating T and B cells and macrophages, with accompanying increases in immune checkpoint molecule PD-L1, suggesting a shift toward an immunosuppressive microenvironment. RNA sequencing analysis of isolated islets and polarized proinflammatory macrophages revealed significant alteration of cytokine-responsive pathways and a reduction in IFN response after VLX-1005 treatment. Our studies demonstrated that the ALOX12 human replacement gene mouse provides a platform for the preclinical evaluation of LOX inhibitors and supports VLX-1005 as an inhibitor of human 12-LOX that engages the enzymatic target and alters the inflammatory phenotypes of islets and macrophages to promote the delay of autoimmune diabetes.
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Titli Nargis, Charanya Muralidharan, Jacob R. Enriquez, Jiayi E. Wang, Kerim B. Kaylan, Advaita Chakraborty, Sarida Pratuangtham, Kayla Figatner, Jennifer B. Nelson, Sarah C. May, Jerry L. Nadler, Matthew B. Boxer, David J. Maloney, Sarah A. Tersey, Raghavendra G. Mirmira
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