Urinary Exosome Mrna Signature for the Diagnosis of Human Kidney Transplant Rejection
1Medecine, Brigham and Women Hospital, Boston, MA, 2Exosome Diagnostics, Boston, MA, 3Boston Children Hospital, Boston, MA, 4Center for Translational Metabolism and Health, Chicago, IL, 5Transplantation Research Center, Boston, MA, 6Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, 7Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Meeting: 2021 American Transplant Congress
Abstract number: 639
Keywords: Genomic markers, Kidney, Rejection
Topic: Clinical Science » Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes
Session Information
Session Name: Biomarkers, Immune Assessment and Clinical Outcomes
Session Type: Poster Abstract
Session Date & Time: None. Available on demand.
Location: Virtual
*Purpose: Traditional biomarkers currently used to monitor the kidney allograft, such as creatinine and proteinuria, are late markers of injury and lack sensitivity, specificity and predictive abilities. The stability of urinary exosomes makes them a potentially powerful tool for liquid-biopsy and an ideal non-invasive diagnostic biomarker for kidney-transplant rejection
*Methods: We collected 220 urine samples from 175 patients who underwent a clinically indicated kidney-transplant biopsy. Urinary exosomal mRNA were isolated using Exosome Diagnostics’ EXOPRO Urine Clinical Sample Concentrator Kit and a differential gene-expression was used to develop rejection signatures. An initial panel of 586 TaqMan assays (TaqMan® OpenArray® Human Inflammation) for genes that have been studied as targets for a range of inflammatory diseases, and a subset 112 TaqMan assays were used to analyze the urine samples. The Boruta algorithm was used for feature selection. We used a repeated K-fold cross-validation (K=10, repeats=10) to generate the rejection probabilities. This allowed us to identify a 15-gene signature that distinguished biopsy with any cause rejection from no rejection. Furthermore, using the same approach, we have identified a 5-genes signature that distinguished TCMR from ABMR
*Results: We have identified a 15-gene signature that discriminated biopsies with any-cause rejection from no-rejection. The area under the curve (AUC) was 0.90 (95% CI 0.85 – 0.96). Negative predictive value (NPV) for active rejection was 93.3% (95% CI 87.7% – 96.4%) and the sensitivity was 84.7% (95% CI 73.5% – 91.8%). The AUC for delta eGFR, was 0.57 (95% CI 0.49 – 0.65), which was significantly inferior (p < 0.001) to the performance of the multi-gene signature. A 5-gene signature that could distinguish TCMR from ABMR, was subsequently identified. The AUC for this signature was 0.87 (95% CI 0.76 - 0.97). If the second signature is negative, the patient has TCMR, and ABMR is ruled out with an NPV of 90.6% (95% CI 75.8% - 96.8%) and a sensitivity of 87.5% (95% CI 69.0% - 95.7%).
*Conclusions: We show here that mRNA signatures derived from urinary exosomes represent a powerful and non-invasive tool to screen for kidney allograft rejection. This finding has the potential to assist clinicians in therapeutic decision-making
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
Fekih REl, Hurley J, Tadigotla V, Alghamdi A, Srivastava A, Coticchia C, Choi J, Allos H, yatim k, Alhaddad J, Eskandari S, Chu P, Mihali A, Lape I, Filho MLima, Ayoma B, Chandraker A, Safa K, Markmann J, Riella L, Formica R, Skog J, Azzi J. Urinary Exosome Mrna Signature for the Diagnosis of Human Kidney Transplant Rejection [abstract]. Am J Transplant. 2021; 21 (suppl 3). https://atcmeetingabstracts.com/abstract/urinary-exosome-mrna-signature-for-the-diagnosis-of-human-kidney-transplant-rejection/. Accessed October 15, 2024.« Back to 2021 American Transplant Congress