Center for Proteomics and Metabolomics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Department of Pediatrics, Section Immunology, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
Front Immunol. 2018 Jun 4;9:1238. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01238. eCollection 2018.
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) fragment crystallizable (Fc) -glycosylation has a large influence on the affinity of the antibody for binding to Fcγ-receptors (FcγRs) and C1q protein, thereby influencing immune effector functions. IgG Fc glycosylation is known to be partly regulated by genetics and partly by stimuli in the microenvironment of the B cell. Following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), and in the presence of (almost) complete donor chimerism, IgG is expected to be produced by, and glycosylated in, B cells of donor origin. We investigated to what extent IgG glycosylation in patients after transplantation is determined by factors of the donor (genetics) or the recipient (environment). Using an IgG subclass-specific liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method, we analyzed the plasma/serum IgG Fc glycosylation profiles of 34 pediatric patients pre-HSCT and at 6 and 12 months post-HSCT and compared these to the profiles of their donors and age-matched healthy controls. Patients treated for hematological malignancies as well as for non-malignant hematological diseases showed after transplantation a lower Fc galactosylation than their donors. Especially for the patients treated for leukemia, the post-HSCT Fc glycosylation profiles were more similar to the pre-HSCT recipient profiles than to profiles of the donors. Pre-HSCT, the leukemia patient group showed as distinctive feature a decrease in sialylation and in hybrid-type glycans as compared to healthy controls, which both normalized after transplantation. Our data suggest that IgG Fc glycosylation in children after HSCT does not directly mimic the donor profile, but is rather determined by persisting environmental factors of the host.
免疫球蛋白 G (IgG) 片段可结晶 (Fc) -糖基化对抗体与 Fcγ 受体 (FcγRs) 和 C1q 蛋白结合的亲和力有很大影响,从而影响免疫效应功能。已知 IgG Fc 糖基化部分受遗传调控,部分受 B 细胞微环境中的刺激调控。在异基因造血干细胞移植 (HSCT) 后,在 (几乎) 完全供者嵌合的情况下,预期 IgG 将由供者来源的 B 细胞产生,并在其中进行糖基化。我们研究了移植后患者的 IgG 糖基化在多大程度上取决于供体 (遗传) 或受体 (环境) 的因素。我们使用 IgG 亚类特异性液相色谱-质谱法,分析了 34 例儿科患者 HSCT 前、HSCT 后 6 个月和 12 个月时的血浆/血清 IgG Fc 糖基化谱,并将其与供体和年龄匹配的健康对照者的谱进行了比较。接受血液系统恶性肿瘤和非恶性血液病治疗的患者在移植后表现出比供体更低的 Fc 半乳糖基化。特别是对于接受白血病治疗的患者,移植后的 Fc 糖基化谱与 HSCT 前的受者谱更相似,而与供体的谱不相似。在 HSCT 前,与健康对照组相比,白血病患者组表现出唾液酸化和杂种型聚糖减少的特征,这两者在移植后均恢复正常。我们的数据表明,HSCT 后儿童的 IgG Fc 糖基化并不直接模拟供体谱,而是由宿主持续存在的环境因素决定的。