PMID- 32199702 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210219 LR - 20210219 IS - 1879-1166 (Electronic) IS - 0198-8859 (Linking) VI - 81 IP - 6 DP - 2020 Jun TI - Impact of donor KIRs and recipient KIR/HLA class I combinations on GVHD in patients with acute leukemia after HLA-matched sibling HSCT. PG - 285-292 LID - S0198-8859(20)30039-2 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.humimm.2020.03.004 [doi] AB - In addition to T cells, NK cells can also participate in the outcome of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) mainly through the interaction between donor killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and recipient human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules. There is a risk of GVHD other than leukemia relapse after allogeneic HSCT that activation of donor NK cells in the absence of appropriate inhibitory ligands will be one of the reasons. To investigate the impact of donor KIRs and recipient KIR/HLA class I combinations on GVHD and leukemia relapse in patients with acute leukemia after HSCT, 100 patients with acute leukemia who received HSCT from their HLA-matched siblings were included in this study. Genotypes of 16 KIR genes and two 2DS4 variants (full length and deleted alleles), along with HLA-A/B genotypes, were determined by PCR-SSP. HLA-C genotyping was done with the SSO-Luminex method. Chimerism analysis was done using 16 short tandem repeats (STRs) to detect early leukemia relapse. Acute (a)GVHD occurred in 38 patients, and 16 of them died during the study. None of the recipients showed any sign of leukemia relapse after HSCT. Full donor chimerism was observed in all tested patients during the first year after HSCT. Our results also indicated an increased risk of aGVHD in AA recipients with the C2/Cx, Bw4(+) (or A-Bw4(+)) or HLA-A3(-)/A11(-) genotypes who received HSCT from Bx donors. Our results showed that donor selection based on donor-recipient KIR genotypes and recipient HLA class I status can improve the outcome of HSCT. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Mansouri, Marzieh AU - Mansouri M AD - Department of Immunology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. FAU - Villard, Jean AU - Villard J AD - Immunology and Transplant Unit, National Reference Laboratory for Histocompatibility (LNRH), Geneva, Switzerland. FAU - Ramzi, Mani AU - Ramzi M AD - Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. FAU - Alavianmehr, Ali AU - Alavianmehr A AD - Department of Immunology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. FAU - Farjadian, Shirin AU - Farjadian S AD - Department of Immunology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Electronic address: farjadsh@sums.ac.ir. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200318 PL - United States TA - Hum Immunol JT - Human immunology JID - 8010936 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Receptors, KIR) SB - IM MH - Acute Disease MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Aged MH - Child MH - Chimerism MH - Female MH - Genetic Association Studies MH - Genetic Predisposition to Disease MH - *Genotype MH - Graft vs Host Disease/*genetics MH - HLA Antigens/metabolism MH - *Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation MH - Histocompatibility MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/*genetics MH - Histocompatibility Testing MH - Humans MH - Killer Cells, Natural/*immunology MH - Leukemia/*therapy MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Polymorphism, Genetic MH - Receptors, KIR/*genetics MH - Siblings MH - Young Adult OTO - NOTNLM OT - Acute leukemia OT - Chimerism OT - Graft versus host disease OT - Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation OT - Human leukocyte antigen OT - Killer immunoglobulin-like receptor EDAT- 2020/03/23 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/20 06:00 CRDT- 2020/03/23 06:00 PHST- 2020/01/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/03/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/03/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/03/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/03/23 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0198-8859(20)30039-2 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.humimm.2020.03.004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hum Immunol. 2020 Jun;81(6):285-292. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2020.03.004. Epub 2020 Mar 18.