Induction of allograft nonresponsiveness after intrathymic inoculation with donor class I allopeptides - I. Correlation of graft survival with antidonor IgG antibody subclasses

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Mhoyan, A
Cramer, DV
Baquerizo, A
Shirwan, H
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[1] Allegheny Univ Hlth Sci, Inst Cellular Therapeut, Philadelphia, PA 19102 USA
[2] St Vincent Med Ctr, Los Angeles, CA 90057 USA
[3] Natl Inst Transplantat, Transplantat Biol Res Lab, Los Angeles, CA 90057 USA
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10.1097/00007890-199712270-00006
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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We have recently demonstrated that cardiac allograft rejection in the PVG,R8-to-PVG,1U rat strain combination involves the recognition of a isolated class I (RT1.A(a)) molecules as peptides in the context of the recipient MHC molecules, Three synthetic peptides (Pi, P2, and P3) corresponding to the alpha-helices of the RT1.A(a) molecule served as T-cell epitopes for graft rejection, In this study, we demonstrate that two of these peptides (P2 and P3) are sufficient to induce immune nonresponsiveness (median survival time >237 days) to cardiac allografts when presented to the recipient immune system in the thymus 7 days before transplantation. This effect was time dependent, as intrathymic inoculation 60 days before transplantation did not prolong graft survival (median survival time=12 days), Previous studies have demonstrated a critical role for alloantibody responses in mediating graft rejection in this rat strain combination, We, therefore, studied the role alloantibody responses may play in the observed immune nonresponsiveness, The titers of alloantibody in serum samples harvested from graft recipients at different times after transplantation were measured, We used recipient primary aortic endothelial cells genetically manipulated to express the donor RT1.A(a) molecule as targets in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, High titers of anti-RT1.A(a) IgM antibody were detected in unmanipulated controls at the time of graft rejection, The IgM antibody switched to high IgG titers in intrathymically inoculated rats with accelerated or delayed rejection, Graft rejection in intrathymically manipulated recipients that had achieved a transient state of immunological nonresponsiveness correlated with higher titers of the IgG2b alloantibody, In marked contrast, the long-term graft survivors expressed undetectable or low levels of the IgG2b antibody and moderate to high levels of the IgG1 and IgG2a subclasses, These data suggest that the IgG2b alloantibody may contribute to the rejection reaction, whereas IgG1 and IgG2a may be involved in active enhancement of graft survival.
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