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ArticleJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2011

Alloimmune response results in expansion of autoreactive donor CD4+ T cells in transplants that can mediate chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Dongchang Zhao, James S Young, Yu-Hong Chen, Elizabeth Shen, Tangsheng Yi, Ivan Todorov, Peiguo G Chu, Stephen J Forman, Defu Zeng

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Article in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Dongchang ZhaoDepartment of Diabetes Research, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA 91010, USA.
James S Young
Yu-Hong Chen
Elizabeth Shen
Tangsheng Yi
Ivan Todorov
Peiguo G Chu
Stephen J Forman
Defu Zeng
City Of Hope National Medical Center · USCity of Hope · USPeking University People's Hospital · CN

Funding

Transgenic Mouse FacilityP30CA033572 · NCI · CITY OF HOPE/BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI STANLEY R. HAMILTON · 1985 to 2026
$86.3M
Role of autoreactivity in the pathogenesis of chronic GVHDR01AI066008 · NIAID · CITY OF HOPE/BECKMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI ZENG, DEFU · 2005 to 2020
$6.1M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA033572NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI066008NIAID NIH HHS R01-AI66008
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD) is considered an autoimmune-like disease mediated by donor CD4(+) T cells, but the origin of the autoreactive T cells is still controversial. In this article, we report that the transplantation of DBA/2 donor spleen cells into thymectomized MHC-matched allogeneic BALB/c recipients induced autoimmune-like cGVHD, although not in control syngeneic DBA/2 recipients. The donor-type CD4(+) T cells from the former but not the latter recipients induced autoimmune-like manifestations in secondary allogeneic BALB/c as well as syngeneic DBA/2 recipients. Transfer of donor-type CD4(+) T cells from secondary DBA/2 recipients with disease into syngeneic donor-type or allogeneic host-type tertiary recipients propagated autoimmune-like manifestations in both. Furthermore, TCR spectratyping revealed that the clonal expansion of the autoreactive CD4(+) T cells in cGVHD recipients was initiated by an alloimmune response. Finally, hybridoma CD4(+) T clones derived from DBA/2 recipients with disease proliferated similarly in response to stimulation by syngeneic donor-type or allogeneic host-type dendritic cells. These results demonstrate that the autoimmune-like manifestations in cGVHD can be mediated by a population of donor CD4(+) T cells in transplants that simultaneously recognize Ags presented by both donor and host APCs.

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AnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsAutoantibodiesAutoantigensCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationChronic DiseaseClone CellsGraft vs Host DiseaseH-2 AntigensHistocompatibility Antigen H-2DHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHistocompatibility TestingMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLAutoantibodiesAutoantigensH-2 AntigensHistocompatibility Antigen H-2DHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID21149609
PMCPMC3891909
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