Monitoring of gene expression in tacrolimus-treated de novo renal allograft recipients facilitates individualized immunosuppression : Results of the IMAGEN study

© 2021 The Authors. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Pharmacological Society..

AIMS: Calcineurin inhibitors (CNI) have a small therapeutic window, and drug monitoring is required. Pharmacokinetic monitoring does not correlate sufficiently with clinical outcome. Therefore, the expression of nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)-regulated genes in the peripheral blood has been suggested as a potentially useful immune monitoring tool to optimize CNI therapy. NFAT-regulated gene expression (RGE) was evaluated in renal allograft recipients as predictive biomarker to detect patients at risk of acute rejection or infections.

METHODS: NFAT-RGE (interleukin-2, interferon-γ, granular-macrophage colony-stimulating factor) was evaluated by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction in whole blood samples at day 7, day 14, month 1, 3, and 6 after transplantation in 64 de novo renal allograft recipients from 3 European centres. Immunosuppression consisted of tacrolimus (Tac), mycophenolic acid, and corticosteroids.

RESULTS: Tac concentrations (C0 and C1.5) correlated inversely with NFAT-RGE (P < .01). NFAT-RGE showed a high interindividual variability (1-61%). Patients with high residual gene expression (NFAT-RGE ≥30%) were at the increased risk of acute rejection in the following months (35 vs. 5%, P = .02), whereas patients with low residual gene expression (NFAT-RGE <30%) showed a higher incidence of viral complications, especially cytomegalovirus and BK virus replication (52.5 vs. 10%, P = .01).

CONCLUSIONS: NFAT-RGE was confirmed as a potential noninvasive early predictive biomarker in the immediate post-transplant period to detect patients at risk of acute rejection and infectious complications in Tac-treated renal allograft recipients. Monitoring of NFAT-RGE may provide additional useful information for physicians to achieve individualized Tac treatment.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:87

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British journal of clinical pharmacology - 87(2021), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 3851-3862

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sommerer, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Brunet, Mercè [VerfasserIn]
Budde, Klemens [VerfasserIn]
Millán, Olga [VerfasserIn]
Guirado Perich, Lluis [VerfasserIn]
Glander, Petra [VerfasserIn]
Meuer, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Zeier, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Giese, Thomas [VerfasserIn]

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Biomarker
Cyclosporine
Cytomegalovirus
Immunosuppressive Agents
Journal Article
Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacokinetics
Rejection
Renal transplantation
Tacrolimus
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Date Completed 27.10.2021

Date Revised 04.12.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/bcp.14794

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NLM321791819