Review Article

Interactions between MSCs and Immune Cells: Implications for Bone Healing

Table 1

List of mediators MSCs use to modulate proliferation and function of T cells.

Mediator Target Cells Modulation Reference

Inducible nitric oxide (iNOS) T cells Inhibition of proliferation induced by anti-CD3 antibody [28]

Programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) T cells Inhibition of proliferation induced by anti-CD3 antibody [29]

Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) T cells Inhibition of proliferation induced by anti-CD3 antibody [3033]

B7-H4 (Negative co-stimulatory molecule) CTLs Induces cell cycle arrest [34, 35]

Fas ligand (Fas L) T cells Transient T cell apoptosis[36]

TGF-β, human leukocyte antigen-G5 (HLA-G5), Notch1 ligands, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) CD4+ T cells Induction of Treg phenotype [31, 3741]

Chemokine receptor 6 (CCR6), and CD39 Th17 cells Induction of Treg phenotype [4244]

ICAM-1, VCAM-1 T cells Inhibition of proliferation through cell-cell contact [45]

EP4 receptor, PD-L1, IL-10 T cells Inhibition of Th17 differentiation [32, 46, 47]

Galectins T cells Inhibition of proliferation [4850]

Indoleamine dioxygenase (IDO) Human T cells Inhibition of proliferation [5153]

MMP-2, MMP-9 Activated T cells Cleavage of IL-2 receptor (CD25) on T cell surface leading to inhibition of proliferation [54]