Impact of age and telomere length on circulating T cells and rejection risk after lung transplantation for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Copyright © 2023 International Society for the Heart and Lung Transplantation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved..

BACKGROUND: Most idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) lung transplant recipients (IPF-LTRs) have short telomere (ST) length. Inherited mutations in telomere-related genes are associated with the development of T cell immunodeficiency. Despite this, IPF-LTRs with telomere-related rare variants are not protected from acute cellular rejection (ACR). We set out to determine the impact of both age and telomere length on the circulating T cell compartment and ACR burden of IPF-LTRs.

METHODS: We identified 106 IPF-LTRs who had telomere length testing using flowFISH (57 with short telomeres and 49 with long telomeres) as well as a subset from both cohorts who had cryopreserved PBMC at least 1 time point, 6 months posttransplantation. Circulating T cells from before transplantation and at 6 and 12 months posttransplantation were analyzed using multiparameter flow cytometry to study phenotype and functional capacity, and bulk T cell receptor sequencing was performed to study repertoire diversity. Linear regression was used to study the relationship of age and telomere length on early (within 1 year) and late (between 1 and 2 years) ACR.

RESULTS: IPF-LTRs with ST were found to have premature "aging" of their circulating T cell compartment, with age-agnostic elevations in posttransplant terminal differentiation of CD8+ T cells, increased granzyme B positivity of both CD8+ and CD4+ T cells, upregulation of the exhaustion marker, CD57, and chemotactic protein CCR5, and enhanced T cell receptor clonal expansion. Additionally, we found a significant decline in early ACR burden with increasing age, but only in the ST cohort.

CONCLUSIONS: IPF-LTRs with ST have premature "aging" of their circulating T cell compartment posttransplantation and a clear age-related decline in ACR burden.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation - 42(2023), 12 vom: 01. Dez., Seite 1666-1677

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Snyder, Mark E [VerfasserIn]
Anderson, Michaela R [VerfasserIn]
Benvenuto, Luke J [VerfasserIn]
Sutton, Rachel M [VerfasserIn]
Bondonese, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Koshy, Ritchie [VerfasserIn]
Burke, Robin [VerfasserIn]
Clifford, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Craig, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Iasella, Carlo J [VerfasserIn]
Hannan, Stefanie J [VerfasserIn]
Popescu, Iulia [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yingze [VerfasserIn]
Sanchez, Pablo G [VerfasserIn]
Alder, Jonathan K [VerfasserIn]
McDyer, John F [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aging
Journal Article
Lung transplantation
Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
Rejection
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
T cells
Telomere length

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Date Completed 13.11.2023

Date Revised 18.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.healun.2023.08.001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM360441408