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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

HLA-DQ-Specific Recombinant Human Monoclonal Antibodies Allow for In-Depth Analysis of HLA-DQ Epitopes.

Suzanne Bezstarosti, Cynthia S M Kramer, Marry E I Franke-van Dijk, Manon Vergunst, Kim H Bakker, Merve Uyar-Mercankaya, Rico Buchli, Dave L Roelen, Johan W de Fijter, Frans H J Claas and 1 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Suzanne BezstarostiDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Cynthia S M KramerDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Marry E I Franke-van DijkDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Manon VergunstDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Kim H BakkerDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Merve Uyar-MercankayaDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Rico BuchliPure Protein LLC, Oklahoma City, OK, United States.
Dave L RoelenDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Johan W de FijterDepartment of Internal Medicine (Nephrology), Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Frans H J ClaasDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Sebastiaan HeidtDepartment of Immunology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Leiden University Medical Center · NLEurotransplant · NLPure Protein (United States) · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

HLA-DQ donor-specific antibodies (DSA) are the most prevalent type of DSA after renal transplantation and have been associated with eplet mismatches between donor and recipient HLA. Eplets are theoretically defined configurations of surface exposed amino acids on HLA molecules that require verification to confirm that they can be recognized by alloantibodies and are therefore clinically relevant. In this study, we isolated HLA-DQ specific memory B cells from immunized individuals by using biotinylated HLA-DQ monomers to generate 15 recombinant human HLA-DQ specific monoclonal antibodies (mAb) with six distinct specificities. Single antigen bead reactivity patterns were analyzed with HLA-EMMA to identify amino acids that were uniquely shared by the reactive HLA alleles to define functional epitopes which were mapped to known eplets. The HLA-DQB1*03:01-specific mAb LB_DQB0301_A and the HLA-DQB1*03-specific mAb LB_DQB0303_C supported the antibody-verification of eplets 45EV and 55PP respectively, while mAbs LB_DQB0402_A and LB_DQB0602_B verified eplet 55R on HLA-DQB1*04/05/06. For three mAbs, multiple uniquely shared amino acid configurations were identified, warranting further studies to define the inducing functional epitope and corresponding eplet. Our unique set of HLA-DQ specific mAbs will be further expanded and will facilitate the in-depth analysis of HLA-DQ epitopes, which is relevant for further studies of HLA-DQ alloantibody pathogenicity in transplantation.

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Antibodies, MonoclonalEpitopesHLA-DQ AntigensHumansRecombinant ProteinsAntibodies, MonoclonalEpitopesHLA-DQ AntigensRecombinant Proteinsamino acidantibody verificationepitopeeplethuman leukocyte antigen (HLA)monoclonal antibodyreactivity patterntransplantation

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PMID35069533
PMCPMC8782272
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