title: The role of IgA anti-HLA class I antibodies in kidney transplant survival.
abstract: The unusually high 88% one-year cadaver kidney graft survival rate in patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) prompted us to investigate the influence of IgA anti-HLA class I antibodies on subsequent graft survival. We found that patients with various original diseases with IgA antibodies to the HLA molecule had high 91% one-year graft survival compared with 58% one-year survival for those who did not have preformed IgA antibodies against the HLA molecule prior to transplantation (P < 0.0005). The IgA antibodies were detected by reaction with class I HLA molecules isolated by capture with monoclonal antibody and detected with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. In contrast, IgG antibodies to the HLA molecule resulted in a lower one-year graft survival rate (74%) than in those patients without IgG antibodies (87%) (p = 0.08). IgA antibodies to the HLA molecule, when present, tended to react at a high frequency on a random lymphocyte panel. These findings suggest that sensitization resulting in IgA anti-HLA antibodies may counteract the deleterious effect of an IgG antibody response in clinical kidney transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine 90024.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Koka
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chia
authors.forename: P I
authors.initials: PI
authors.lastname: Terasaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lim
mesh_terms: D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006085:Graft Survival / Q000276:immunology*; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000032:analysis; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology*; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M