Project description:The achievement of a drug-free operational tolerance for renal transplanted patients is a major goal in organ transplantation. Previous gene expression profiling in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) identified genes associated with operational tolerance. The identification of a common pattern of B cell-related genes associated with tolerance encourage us to analyze gene expression in purified B cell from operationally tolerant patients (TOL=10) compared to renal transplanted patients with stable graft function (STA=12) under immunosuppression and also compared to healthy volunteers (HV=10) who have no immunosuppressive treatment and no graft. Microarray analyses exhibited an absence of gene signature associated with tolerance in purified B cell compared to STA or HV. These results suggest that the B cell signatures observed in PBMC may be due to an increase number of total B cells rather than specific B cell characteristics in operationally tolerant patients. This dataset represents gene expression profiling of purified B cells from 10 renal transplanted patients with operational tolerance (TOL), 12 renal transplanted patients with stable graft function under immunosuppression (STA) and 10 healthy volunteers (HV).
Project description:Transcriptomic signature of the CD24hiCD38hi transitional B cells associated with an immunoregulatory phenotype in renal transplant recipient.
Project description:The role of B cells after transplant regarding allograft rejection or tolerance has become a topic of major interest. Recently, in renal transplant recipients, a B cell signature characterized by the overexpression of CD19+CD38hiCD24hi transitional B cells has been observed in operationally tolerant patients and in Belatacept treated patients with significant lower incidence of donor specific antibodies. The phenotypic and functional characterization of these transitional B cells is far to be exhaustive. We present the first transcriptomic and phenotypic analysis associated with this phenotype. Three populations were studied and compared: (i) transitional CD24hiCD38hi (ii) CD24+CD38- and (iii) CD24intCD38int populations.