Circulating autoreactive proteinase 3+ B cells and tolerance checkpoints in ANCA-associated vasculitis.
Circulating autoreactive proteinase 3+ B cells and tolerance checkpoints in ANCA-associated vasculitis.
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10.1172/jci.insight.150999
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2021-11-22
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影响因子:
8
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RAVE-ITN Research Group
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Berti A;Hillion S;Hummel AM;Son YM;Chriti N;Peikert T;Carmona EM;Abdulahad WH;Heeringa P;Harris KM;St Clair EW;Brunetta P;Fervenza FC;Langford CA;Kallenberg CG;Merkel PA;Monach PA;Seo P;Spiera RF;Stone JH;Grandi G;Sun J;Pers JO;Specks U;Cornec D;RAVE-ITN Research Group
Little is known about the autoreactive B cells in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody–associated (ANCA-associated) vasculitis (AAV). We aimed to investigate tolerance checkpoints of circulating antigen-specific proteinase 3–reactive (PR3+) B cells. Multicolor flow cytometry in combination with bioinformatics and functional in vitro studies were performed on baseline samples of PBMCs from 154 well-characterized participants of the RAVE trial (NCT00104299) with severely active PR3-AAV and myeloperoxidase-AAV (MPO-AAV) and 27 healthy controls (HCs). Clinical data and outcomes from the trial were correlated with PR3+ B cells (total and subsets). The frequency of PR3+ B cells among circulating B cells was higher in participants with PR3-AAV (4.77% median [IQR, 3.98%–6.01%]) than in participants with MPO-AAV (3.16% median [IQR, 2.51%–5.22%]) and participants with AAV compared with HCs (1.67% median [IQR, 1.27%–2.16%], P < 0.001 for all comparisons), implying a defective central tolerance checkpoint in patients with AAV. Only PBMCs from participants with PR3-AAV contained PR3+ B cells capable of secreting PR3-ANCA IgG in vitro, proving they were functionally distinct from those of participants with MPO-AAV and HCs. Unsupervised clustering identified subtle subsets of atypical autoreactive PR3+ memory B cells accumulating through the maturation process in patients with PR3-AAV. PR3+ B cells were enriched in the memory B cell compartment of participants with PR3-AAV and were associated with higher serum CXCL13 levels, suggesting an increased germinal center activity. PR3+ B cells correlated with systemic inflammation (C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate, P < 0.05) and complete remission (P < 0.001). This study suggests the presence of defective central antigen-independent and peripheral antigen-dependent checkpoints in patients with PR3-AAV, elucidating the selection process of autoreactive B cells. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00104299. The Vasculitis Foundation, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH, and the Mayo Foundation for Education and Research.
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DOI:
10.1111/rssb.12298
发表时间:
2019-02-01
影响因子:
5.8
作者:
Li, Ang;Barber, Rina Foygel
通讯作者:
Barber, Rina Foygel
DOI:
10.1038/nri.2017.19
发表时间:
2017-05
期刊:
Nature reviews. Immunology
影响因子:
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作者:
Nemazee D
通讯作者:
Nemazee D
影响因子:
27.4
作者:
Monach PA;Warner RL;Tomasson G;Specks U;Stone JH;Ding L;Fervenza FC;Fessler BJ;Hoffman GS;Iklé D;Kallenberg CG;Krischer J;Langford CA;Mueller M;Seo P;St Clair EW;Spiera R;Tchao N;Ytterberg SR;Johnson KJ;Merkel PA
通讯作者:
Merkel PA
影响因子:
32.4
作者:
Chan, Tyani D.;Wood, Katherine;Brink, Robert
通讯作者:
Brink, Robert
影响因子:
32.4
作者:
Li, H;Jiang, YF;Weigert, M
通讯作者:
Weigert, M