Affiliation:
1. National Research Center for Hematology
Abstract
Introduction. The main pathogenetic mechanism of the development of aplastic anemia (AA) is a violation of the immune regulation of hematopoiesis.Aim: to study of the subpopulation composition of T-cells and the repertoire of the T-cell receptor in AA patients.Patients and Methods. The study included AA patients (n = 40) without prior immunosuppressive therapy in 2018–2020. The T-cell subpopulation structure and T-cell receptor Vβ-family (TCR-Vβ) oligoclonality were studied in samples of bone marrow using flow cytometry.Results. We report characteristic properties of T-cell subpopulations of bone marrow in all AA patients: elevated counts of cytotoxic T-cells, effector CD4+ and CD8+ cells, CD4+ memory cells, which may suggest a long-term antigenic stimulation with subsequent activation of these cell subpopulations resulting in hyperexpression of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Diminishing of naive CD4+ and CD8+ cells, regulatory and double negative T-cells may indicate a relaxing control of cytokine-producing T-cells. A relationship has been established between the AA severity and counts of effector, regulatory, double negative and PD-1 positive T-cells. A highest count of potentially cytokine-producing T-cells and lowest count of cells involved in T-cell activity regulation were observed in very severe AA patients. Studies of the TCR-Vβ repertoire revealed oligoclonal expansion in the cytotoxic T-cell subpopulation.Conclusion. Enrichment in selected Vβ families suggests autoreactive T-cell clonality and attests to the immune nature of AA. A dynamic TCR-Vβ repertoire assay may be recommended in the disease monitoring. Flow cytometry helps identify valuable biomarkers for T-cell clone monitoring in AA and a better assessment of the disease progression.
Publisher
National Medical Research Center of Hematology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
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