Vascular endothelial cell apoptosis induced by anti-donor non-MHC antibodies: a possible injury pathway contributing to chronic allograft rejection
| Autor: | Vaughn A. Starnes, Mark L. Barr, Lura W. Barsky, Roberto Salazar, Wangde Dai, Donald V. Cramer, Natasha S. Barteneva, Yang Sun Jin, Gordon D. Wu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
| Předmět: |
Graft Rejection
Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Programmed cell death Apoptosis Immunoglobulin G Immune system Isoantibodies In Situ Nick-End Labeling Animals Transplantation Homologous Medicine Transplantation TUNEL assay biology business.industry Cytotoxicity Tests Immunologic Flow Cytometry Immunohistochemistry Rats Inbred F344 Rats Endothelial stem cell Rats Inbred Lew Immunology biology.protein Heart Transplantation Surgery Endothelium Vascular Antibody Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 21:1174-1187 |
| ISSN: | 1053-2498 |
| Popis: | Backgound Non–major histocompatibility complex (non-MHC) alloantibodies may play a pathogenic role in chronic rejection but remain poorly characterized. Methods The kinetics of alloantibody production and the mechanism by which non-MHC alloantibodies cause graft injury were investigated in a Lewis-to-Fischer 344 (LEW-to-F344) rat model of cardiac transplantation. Results Flow cytometry detected that all the F344 recipients of LEW allografts produced anti-donor immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies reactive with LEW lymphocytes and endothelial cells. A sub-group of recipients that rejected their grafts in 30 to 60 days exhibited markedly increased levels of anti-donor IgG antibodies ( n = 6, mean fluorescence intensity [MFI]:23.85 ± 2.7) than recipients with long-surviving allografts ( n = 4, MFI:11.23 ± 0.81; p = 0.00058). Passive transfer of anti-donor sera induced chronic rejection of LEW heart allografts in an immune non-responsiveness model of F344 rats induced by intrathymic inoculation of donor-specific lymphocytes. Immunoglobulin G antibodies purified from the anti-LEW sera exhibited complement-dependent cytotoxicity against LEW vascular endothelial cells in flow-cytometric cytotoxicity assay. The targeted endothelial cells displayed early (annexin V+) and late (TUNEL+) evidence for programmed cell death. Western blot analysis of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) demonstrated that the 25-kD PARP-cleavage fragment was present at the lysates of the vascular endothelial cells treated with anti-donor IgG antibodies, indicating apoptosis-associated caspase activity in these cells. In situ teminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling (TUNEL) staining demonstrated that vascular endothelial cell apoptosis was consistently present in all LEW heart allografts with chronic rejection. Conclusions Non-MHC alloantibodies are pathogenic and capable of causing chronic graft injury through an antibody-induced cell apoptosis mechanism. The results emphasize the importance of non-MHC antibodies as a common predisposing factor in the development of chronic rejection. |
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