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Donor killer cell Ig-like receptor B haplotypes, recipient HLA-C1, and HLA-C mismatch enhance the clinical benefit of unrelated transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia. J Immunol 2014 May 15;192(10):4592-600

Date

04/22/2014

Pubmed ID

24748496

Pubmed Central ID

PMC4031316

DOI

10.4049/jimmunol.1302517

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-84901290331 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   124 Citations

Abstract

Killer cell Ig-like receptors (KIRs) interact with HLA class I ligands to regulate NK cell development and function. These interactions affect the outcome of unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We have shown previously that donors with KIR B versus KIR A haplotypes improve the clinical outcome for patients with acute myelogenous leukemia by reducing the incidence of leukemic relapse and improving leukemia-free survival (LFS). Both centromeric and telomeric KIR B genes contribute to the effect, but the centromeric genes are dominant. They include the genes encoding inhibitory KIRs that are specific for the C1 and C2 epitopes of HLA-C. We used an expanded cohort of 1532 T cell-replete transplants to examine the interaction between donor KIR B genes and recipient class I HLA KIR ligands. The relapse protection associated with donor KIR B is enhanced in recipients who have one or two C1-bearing HLA-C allotypes, compared with C2 homozygous recipients, with no effect due to donor HLA. The protective interaction between donors with two or more, versus none or one, KIR B motifs and recipient C1 was specific to transplants with class I mismatch at HLA-C (RR of leukemia-free survival, 0.57 [0.40-0.79]; p = 0.001) irrespective of the KIR ligand mismatch status of the transplant. The survival advantage and relapse protection in C1/x recipients compared with C2/C2 recipients was similar irrespective of the particular donor KIR B genes. Understanding the interactions between donor KIR and recipient HLA class I can be used to inform donor selection to improve outcome of unrelated donor hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia.

Author List

Cooley S, Weisdorf DJ, Guethlein LA, Klein JP, Wang T, Marsh SG, Spellman S, Haagenson MD, Saeturn K, Ladner M, Trachtenberg E, Parham P, Miller JS

Author

Tao Wang PhD Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Equity department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Allografts
Disease-Free Survival
Female
HLA-C Antigens
Haplotypes
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Humans
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Male
Receptors, KIR
Retrospective Studies
Survival Rate
Unrelated Donors