Articles tagged "Epitopes"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Disparities in HLA Representation by Single Antigen Reagents in Different Ethnic Populations
J. C. Quon¹, J. Menteer², N. Fotiadis², R. M. Lestz², L. A. Baxter-Lowe²
¹Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, ²Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: It is not possible to test for antibodies against the antigens encoded by every HLA allele due to cost and throughput constraints. When alleles…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Hla-dq Epitope Mismatch Predicts De Novo Donor-Specific Antibody Formation and Acute Cellular Rejection After Living Donor Liver Transplantation
K. Ono, K. Ide, Y. Tanaka, M. Ohira, H. Tahara, N. Tanimine, S. Akimoto, Y. Imaoka, K. Sato, H. Yamane, N. Tsukiyama, R. Ide, T. Mochizuki, H. Ohdan
Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health S, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima City, Japan
*Purpose: Epitope mismatch (MM) effect on living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has not been studied in detail. This study aimed to investigate the role of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Is Equitable Access to Transplantation Possible in the Era of HLA Epitope Compatibility?
S. Parto¹, J. Lamsatfi², B. Liu², A. Bourdiec², B. Foster², K. Oualkacha², F. Claas³, P. Keown⁴, R. Sapir-Pichhadze⁵
¹Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³Leiden University Medical Centre, Albinusdreef, Netherlands, ⁴University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ⁵Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: We applied the calculated Panel of Incompatible Epitopes (cPIE), an algorithm informing on the likelihood of identifying blood group and eplet-compatible donors, to study…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Non-HLA Antibodies and Eplet Mismatches in Cases with Histological Picture of Antibody-Mediated Rejection with and without HLA Donor-Specific Antibodies
M. Crespo¹, L. Llinás², D. Redondo², C. Butler³, J. Gimeno⁴, M. Pérez-Sáez², A. Buxeda², C. Arias², M. Folgueiras², S. Sanz², N. Valenzuela³, E. E. Reed³, J. Pascual²
¹Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ²Nephrology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, ³UCLA Immunogenetics Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Pathology, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
*Purpose: Correlation between antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) and HLA donor-specific antibodies (DSA) is strong but imperfect in kidney transplant (KT) recipients, raising the possibility of other…
2021 American Transplant Congress
hlaR,” a Simplified Interface for the HLA Matchmaker Tool
A. Johnson¹, J. Zhang¹, H. Gebel², C. Larsen¹
¹Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, ²Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
*Purpose: Functional epitopes, or eplets, represent a set of amino acids within three angstroms of one another that may not be sequentially contiguous but are…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HLA Diversity Affects Epitope Mismatch Cutoffs Utilized to Predict De Novo DSA Development and Graft Rejection in Renal Transplant Patients
A. Ram¹, S. Dhingra², H. Quach¹, P. T. Jindra¹
¹Immune Evaluation Laboratory-Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ²Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Recent studies have investigated epitope matching in order to determine its predictive power in determining renal transplant outcomes, both in terms of de novo…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Is the Epitope Mismatch Load Enough to Identify HLA-DQ Mismatches with a Low Risk for De Novo DSA Development?
V. Jucaud¹, M. Stegall², C. Schinstock², R. Heilman³, L. Rebellato⁴, M. Samaniego-Picota⁵, D. Leeser⁴, M. Gandhi², J. Beaumont¹, M. Everly¹
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ³Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, ⁴East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ⁵Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: The development of de novo donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (dnDSA) remains a major risk factor for poor long-term kidney allograft outcomes. In particular, anti-HLA-DQ dnDSAs,…
2020 American Transplant Congress
HLA Mismatch Immunogenicity: Are We Predicating Mismatches That Induce De Novo DSA Development or That Do Not?
V. Jucaud¹, L. Rebellato², K. Briley², C. Haisch², S. Kendrick³, H. Jones³, K. Mclawhorn³, D. Leeser², M. Everly¹
¹Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, ³Eastern Nephrology Associates, Greenville, NC
*Purpose: Although the development of de novo donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies (dnDSA) remains a major risk factor for poor long-term kidney allograft outcomes, the prediction of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Extended HLA Typing of Kidney Transplant Pairs is Necessary to Assign Presence of Donor-Specific Anti-HLA Antibodies
A. Senev¹, V. Van Sandt², M. Naesens¹, M. Emonds¹
¹Microbiology, Immunology and Transplantation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, ²HILA, Rode Kruis Vlaanderen, Leuven, Belgium
*Purpose: The need for extended high-resolution (HR) HLA genotyping in solid organ transplantation is currently widely debated due to higher costs and questioned clinical importance.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
The Eplet-Mismatch Landscape in Kidney Patients and Deceased Donors in British Columbia
J. Tran¹, O. Gunther², J. Lan¹, M. Kadatz¹, R. Sapir-Pichhadze³, P. A. Keown¹
¹University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Gunther Analytics, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ³McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Minimizing quantitative donor/recipient mismatch at the HLA epitope level may optimize graft outcomes in renal transplantation, but the degree to which optimal matching can…