Project description:PBMC of 12 pediatric solid organ transplant recipients (SOTR) and 8 healthy children (HC) were phenotyped using multiomic scRNAseq.
Project description:Pharmacologic immunosuppression is essential for preventing organ rejection and controlling autoimmunity, but profoundly impairs humoral immunity, increasing the risk of vaccine failure and infection. The mechanisms by which immunosuppressive therapies disrupt human B cell responses remain poorly defined. Here, we identified dysregulated lipid metabolism as a central determinant of impaired vaccine response in solid organ transplant recipients (SOTRs). We performed 10x genomics single cell RNA sequencing on isolated B cells from SOTRs and healthy controls before and after a third COVID-19 vaccine dose. The widely used immunosuppressive agent, mycophenolic acid (MPA) was strongly associated with vaccine non-response and induced excessive lipid synthesis, lipid accumulation, and mitochondrial stress in B cells.
Project description:Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorders (PTLD) are a major complication of solid organ transplantation and represent a cause of severe morbidity and mortality among transplanted patients. Apart from EBV infection, knowledge of the pathogenesis of monoclonal PTLD is limited. Powerful analysis techniques, such as whole genomic DNA profiling (arrayCGH), can improve our understanding of PTLD pathogenesis. Toward this aim, we obtained the whole genome profiling using the Affymetrix GeneChip Human Mapping 10k 2.0 from 20 cases of PTLD and we compared them with those assessed in 25 cases of DLBCL from immunocompetent patients, as a control group. Recurrent lesions were detected among all the samples. Chromosome 18q, 7q, 3q and 12 were the most common gains in DLBCL of immunocompetent hosts. Chromosomes 5p and 11p were commonly gained in PTLD-DLBCL. The latter had frequent losses of 6q, 17p, 1p, and 9p. Chromosome 12p was the most frequent target of deletions among PTLD-DLBCL. The LOH pattern was characterized by involvement of chromosomes 13q and 17p in DLBCL and 10, 1q, 9p and 11q among PTLD-DLBCL. Interestingly, LOH did not always match the DNA loss. In particular, chromosome 10 seemes to be targeted by uniparental disomy in PTLD. Small deletions and gains, involving both known (BCL2 and PAX5) and unknown genes (ZDHHC14), have been identified. Our data suggest that PTLD share, at a lower frequency, common genetic aberrations with DLBCL from immunocompetent patients. The demonstration of 9p13 amplification indicates the importance of PAX5 in PTLD. The combination of DNA copy number and LOH assessment lead to the hypothesis that uniparental disomy may be a potential mechanism in B-cell lymphomagenesis. Twenty specimens of monoclonal B-cell PTLD, collected from 20 solid organ transplant recipients. Experiment Overall Design: 20 PTLD samples. No technical replications. Experiment Overall Design: 25 DLBCL samples (20 patient + 5 cell lines). No technical replications.
Project description:TransplantLines is designed as a single-center, prospective cohort study and biobank including all different types of solid organ transplant recipients as well as living organ donors. In the TransplantLines gut microbiome study the gut microbiome of solid organ transplant recipients is characterized and linked to clinical phenotypes. This batch contains the cross-sectional data from renal transplant recipients is.
Project description:TransplantLines is designed as a single-center, prospective cohort study and biobank including all different types of solid organ transplant recipients as well as living organ donors. In the TransplantLines gut microbiome study the gut microbiome of solid organ transplant recipients is characterized and linked to clinical phenotypes. This batch contains the cross-sectional data from liver transplant recipients and longitudinal data from renal and liver transplant recipients.