The Clinical Relevance of the Infiltrating Immune Cell Composition in Kidney Transplant Rejection

Author:

Vaulet Thibaut1ORCID,Callemeyn Jasper12ORCID,Lamarthée Baptiste13ORCID,Antoranz Asier4ORCID,Debyser Tim1ORCID,Koshy Priyanka4ORCID,Anglicheau Dany56ORCID,Colpaert Jill1ORCID,Gwinner Wilfried7ORCID,Halloran Philip F.8ORCID,Kuypers Dirk12ORCID,Tinel Claire139,Van Craenenbroeck Amaryllis12ORCID,Van Loon Elisabet12ORCID,Marquet Pierre10ORCID,Bosisio Francesca4ORCID,Naesens Maarten12ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation Research Group, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

2. Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

3. EFS, INSERM, UMR RIGHT, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

4. Department of Imaging and Pathology, Translational Cell and Tissue Research, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

5. Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

6. Inserm U1151, Necker Enfants-Malades Institute, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

7. Department of Nephrology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

8. Division of Nephrology and Transplant Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

9. Department of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Dijon University Hospital, Dijon, France

10. Department of Pharmacology and Transplantation, Inserm U1248, Limoges University Hospital, University of Limoges, Limoges, France

Abstract

Key Points The estimated composition of immune cells in kidney transplants correlates poorly with the primary rejection categories defined by Banff criteria.Spatial cell distribution could be coupled with a detailed cellular composition to assess causal triggers for allorecognition.Intragraft CD8temra cells showed strong and consistent association with graft failure, regardless of the Banff rejection phenotypes. Background The link between the histology of kidney transplant rejection, especially antibody-mediated rejection, T-cell–mediated rejection, and mixed rejection, and the types of infiltrating immune cells is currently not well charted. Cost and technical complexity of single-cell analysis hinder large-scale studies of the relationship between cell infiltrate profiles and histological heterogeneity. Methods In this cross-sectional study, we assessed the composition of nine intragraft immune cell types by using a validated kidney transplant–specific signature matrix for deconvolution of bulk transcriptomics in three different kidney transplant biopsy datasets (N=403, N=224, N=282). The association and discrimination of the immune cell types with the Banff histology and the association with graft failure were assessed individually and with multivariable models. Unsupervised clustering algorithms were applied on the overall immune cell composition and compared with the Banff phenotypes. Results Banff-defined rejection was related to high presence of CD8+ effector T cells, natural killer cells, monocytes/macrophages, and, to a lesser extent, B cells, whereas CD4+ memory T cells were lower in rejection compared with no rejection. Estimated intragraft effector memory–expressing CD45RA (TEMRA) CD8+ T cells were strongly and consistently associated with graft failure. The large heterogeneity in immune cell composition across rejection types prevented supervised and unsupervised methods to accurately recover the Banff phenotypes solely on the basis of immune cell estimates. The lack of correlation between immune cell composition and Banff-defined rejection types was validated using multiplex immunohistochemistry. Conclusions Although some specific cell types (FCGR3A + myeloid cells, CD14 + monocytes/macrophages, and NK cells) partly discriminated between rejection phenotypes, the overall estimated immune cell composition of kidney transplants was ill related to main Banff-defined rejection categories and added to the Banff lesion scoring and evaluation of rejection severity. The estimated intragraft CD8temra cells bore strong and consistent association with graft failure and were independent of Banff-grade rejection.

Funder

FP7 Health

Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Bpifrance

European Regional Development Fund of the Region Bourgogne Franche-Comté

Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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