PMID- 20510320 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20110131 LR - 20111117 IS - 1879-1166 (Electronic) IS - 0198-8859 (Linking) VI - 71 IP - 9 DP - 2010 Sep TI - Specific "intra-allele" and "intra-broad antigen" human leukocyte antigen alloantibodies in kidney graft transplantation. PG - 857-60 LID - 10.1016/j.humimm.2010.05.018 [doi] AB - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) antibodies are epitope specific and not antigen specific. This work presents a case of intra-allele (IA) sensitization. A 40-year-old-man underwent transplantion with identical "broad" DR. He was apparently not sensitized to HLA antigens by complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), with one previous transplantation 15 years previously. In post-transplantation monitoring, we detected an "intra-broad antigen" (IBA) anti-DRB1*13 DSA by Luminex. We performed post-transplantation B-cell cross-matching (CM) by CDC, this being completely negative. We detected allele-specific antibodies by single antigens (SA), anti-DRB1*1303 (IBA), -DQB1*0301 (IA), -DRB1*1101, -DRB3*0101, anti-DPB1*0202, and anti-DRB1*0103. These antibodies originated from the first transplantation, HLA-DR6+ homozygous and serologically broad matched, but retrospectively typed as DRB1*1401, *1303; DRB3*0101, *0202; DQB1*0301, *0503; DPB1*0401, *0202 (mismatches in italics). However the second donor was DRB1*1301, *1401 (DR6+ homozygous); DRB3*0202; DQB1*0603, *0503; DPB1*0401 (mismatches in italic). Therefore, the stronger antibodies generated in the first transplantion (anti-DRB1*1303 and -DQB1*0301) were not specific for the specific subtypes (DRB1*1301 and -DQB1*0603) on the second transplantation. Finally, it was possible to exactly define the potential immunizing epitopes the recognition of which determined antibody production. Therefore, our patient had low titers of pretransplantation IBA and IA antibodies that were not prospectively detected by CDC. Post-transplantation with Luminex, we detected these alloantibodies, but as they were not IA and IBA DSA, they did not cause allograft injury. CI - Copyright 2010 American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Muro, Manuel AU - Muro M AD - Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Enfermedades Hepaticas y Digestivas, Murcia, Spain. manuel.muro@carm.es FAU - Gonzalez-Soriano, Maria J AU - Gonzalez-Soriano MJ FAU - Salgado, Gema AU - Salgado G FAU - Lopez, Ruth AU - Lopez R FAU - Boix, Francisco AU - Boix F FAU - Lopez, Manuela AU - Lopez M FAU - Campillo, Jose A AU - Campillo JA FAU - Martinez, Pedro AU - Martinez P FAU - Botella, Carmen AU - Botella C FAU - Gimeno, Luisa AU - Gimeno L FAU - Minguela, Alfredo AU - Minguela A FAU - Alvarez-Lopez, Maria R AU - Alvarez-Lopez MR FAU - Llorente, Santiago AU - Llorente S LA - eng PT - Case Reports PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100525 PL - United States TA - Hum Immunol JT - Human immunology JID - 8010936 RN - 0 (Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DP Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DP beta-Chains) RN - 0 (HLA-DPB1 antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DQ beta-Chains) RN - 0 (HLA-DQB1 antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-DR Antigens) RN - 0 (HLA-DRB1 Chains) RN - 0 (HLA-DRB1*13 antigen) RN - 0 (HLA-DRB3 Chains) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class II) RN - 0 (Isoantibodies) SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Amino Acid Sequence/genetics MH - Amino Acid Substitution/genetics/immunology MH - B-Lymphocytes/immunology MH - Computational Biology MH - Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic MH - Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte/genetics/immunology MH - Graft Rejection/immunology MH - Graft Survival/immunology MH - HLA Antigens/genetics/*immunology MH - HLA-DP Antigens/genetics/immunology MH - HLA-DP beta-Chains MH - HLA-DQ Antigens/genetics/immunology MH - HLA-DQ beta-Chains MH - HLA-DR Antigens/genetics/immunology MH - HLA-DRB1 Chains MH - HLA-DRB3 Chains MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/genetics MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/genetics/immunology MH - Histocompatibility Testing MH - Humans MH - Isoantibodies/blood/*immunology MH - Kidney Transplantation/*immunology MH - Male MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Polymorphism, Genetic/genetics/immunology EDAT- 2010/06/01 06:00 MHDA- 2011/02/01 06:00 CRDT- 2010/06/01 06:00 PHST- 2009/12/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/03/16 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2010/05/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/06/01 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/06/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/02/01 06:00 [medline] AID - S0198-8859(10)00129-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.humimm.2010.05.018 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hum Immunol. 2010 Sep;71(9):857-60. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2010.05.018. Epub 2010 May 25.