Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA; Department of Transplantation Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
J Immunol Methods. 2024 Sep;532:113714. doi: 10.1016/j.jim.2024.113714. Epub 2024 Jun 25.
Acute rejection (AR) undermines the life-extending benefits of kidney transplantation and is diagnosed using the invasive biopsy procedure. T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR), antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR), or concurrent TCMR + ABMR (Mixed Rejection [MR]) are the three major types of AR. Development of noninvasive biomarkers diagnostic of AR due to any of the three types is a useful addition to the diagnostic armamentarium.
We developed customized RT-qPCR assays and measured urinary cell mRNA copy numbers in 145 biopsy-matched urine samples from 126 kidney allograft recipients. We determined whether the urinary cell three-gene signature diagnostic of TCMR (Suthanthiran et al., 2013) discriminates patients with no rejection biopsies (NR, n = 50) from those with ABMR (n = 28) or MR (n = 20) biopsies.
The urinary cell three-gene signature discriminated all three types of rejection biopsies from NR biopsies (P < 0.0001, One-way ANOVA). Dunnett's multiple comparisons test yielded P < 0.0001 for NR vs. TCMR; P < 0.001 for NR vs. ABMR; and P < 0.0001 for NR vs. MR. By bootstrap resampling, optimism-corrected area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) was 0.749 (bias-corrected 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.638 to 0.840) for NR vs. TCMR (P < 0.0001); 0.780 (95% CI, 0.656 to 0.878) for NR vs. ABMR (P < 0.0001); and 0.857 (95% CI, 0.727 to 0.947) for NR vs. MR (P < 0.0001). All three rejection categories were distinguished from NR biopsies with similar accuracy (all AUC comparisons P > 0.05).
The urinary cell three-gene signature score discriminates AR due to TCMR, ABMR or MR from NR biopsies in human kidney allograft recipients.
急性排斥反应(AR)削弱了肾移植的延长生命益处,并且通过侵入性活检程序进行诊断。T 细胞介导的排斥反应(TCMR)、抗体介导的排斥反应(ABMR)或同时发生的 TCMR+ABMR(混合排斥反应[MR])是 AR 的三种主要类型。开发用于诊断任何三种类型的 AR 的非侵入性生物标志物是诊断工具的有益补充。
我们开发了定制的 RT-qPCR 检测方法,并测量了 126 名肾移植受者的 145 个活检匹配尿液样本中的尿液细胞 mRNA 拷贝数。我们确定了诊断 TCMR 的尿液细胞三基因特征(Suthanthiran 等人,2013)是否可以区分无排斥活检(NR,n=50)与 ABMR(n=28)或 MR(n=20)活检患者。
尿液细胞三基因特征可将所有三种类型的排斥活检与 NR 活检区分开来(P<0.0001,单向方差分析)。Dunnett 的多重比较检验得出 NR 与 TCMR 相比,P<0.0001;NR 与 ABMR 相比,P<0.001;NR 与 MR 相比,P<0.0001。通过自举重采样,NR 与 TCMR(P<0.0001)、NR 与 ABMR(P<0.0001)和 NR 与 MR(P<0.0001)的接收者操作特征曲线(ROC)的校正后曲线下面积(AUC)分别为 0.749(偏置校正 95%置信区间[CI],0.638 至 0.840)。0.780(95%CI,0.656 至 0.878)用于 NR 与 ABMR(P<0.0001);0.857(95%CI,0.727 至 0.947)用于 NR 与 MR(P<0.0001)。所有三种排斥类别均以相似的准确性与 NR 活检区分开来(所有 AUC 比较 P>0.05)。
尿液细胞三基因特征评分可区分人类肾移植受者中由 TCMR、ABMR 或 MR 引起的 AR 与 NR 活检。