Hidden Granzyme B-Mediated Injury in Chronic Active Antibody-Mediated Rejection

OBJECTIVES: Antibody-mediated injury in chronic active antibody-mediated rejection, possibly with other effector T cells, may play a role in graft injury. The role of inflammatory cells in the inflammation and fibrosis and tubular atrophy region has been recently advocated in the progression of injury. Cytotoxic T cells play a prominent role in T-cell-mediated rejection; however, the possible role of cytotoxic T cells in circulation and the intragraft compartment in chronic active antibody-mediated rejection, a common immunological cause of long-term graft failure, has not been well-studied.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We measured the frequency of circulating cytotoxic T cells with flow cytometry, serum granzyme B level by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and intragraft granzyme B+ cell, and mRNA by immunohistochemistry and real-time polymerase chain reaction in biopsy tissue from living donor renal allograft recipients with stable graft function and chronic active antibody-mediated rejection.

RESULTS: The frequency of CD3+ and CD3+CD8+ T cells was similar in both stable graft function patients and chronic active antibody-mediated rejection patients. The frequency of CD3+CD8+granzyme B+ cytotoxic T cells was significantly lower in peripheral blood. Serum granzyme B level and intragraft number of granzyme B+ cells (counts/mm²) were also significantly higher in the chronic active antibody-mediated rejection group compared with that of patients with stable graft function. The intragraft granzyme B+ T cell count was positively correlated with serum creatinine and 24-hour urine proteinuria but negatively correlated with estimated glomerular filtration rate.

CONCLUSIONS: Granzyme B mediates covert graft injury in patients with chronic active antibody-mediated rejection in addition to antibody-mediated injury.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:18

Enthalten in:

Experimental and clinical transplantation : official journal of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation - 18(2020), 7 vom: 21. Dez., Seite 778-784

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yadav, Brijesh [VerfasserIn]
Prasad, Narayan [VerfasserIn]
Agarwal, Vikas [VerfasserIn]
Agarwal, Vinita [VerfasserIn]
Jain, Manoj [VerfasserIn]

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Biomarkers
EC 3.4.21.-
GZMB protein, human
Granzymes
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 02.11.2021

Date Revised 02.11.2021

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.6002/ect.2020.0225

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319138399