Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Missing self triggers NK cell-mediated chronic vascular rejection of solid organ transplants

  • Alice Koenig,
  • Chien-Chia Chen,
  • Antoine Marçais,
  • Thomas Barba,
  • Virginie Mathias,
  • Antoine Sicard,
  • Maud Rabeyrin,
  • Maud Racapé,
  • Jean-Paul Duong-Van-Huyen,
  • Patrick Bruneval,
  • Alexandre Loupy,
  • Sébastien Dussurgey,
  • Stéphanie Ducreux,
  • Vannary Meas-Yedid,
  • Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin,
  • Héléna Paidassi,
  • Romain Guillemain,
  • Jean-Luc Taupin,
  • Jasper Callemeyn,
  • Emmanuel Morelon,
  • Antonino Nicoletti,
  • Béatrice Charreau,
  • Valérie Dubois,
  • Maarten Naesens,
  • Thierry Walzer,
  • Thierry Defrance,
  • Olivier Thaunat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13113-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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‘Missing self’ is a mode of natural killer (NK) cell activation aimed to detect the lack of HLA-I molecules on infected or neoplastic cells. Here, the authors show that mismatch between donor HLA-I and cognate receptors on recipient NK cells mediates microvascular inflammation-associated graft rejection, a pathology that is preventable by mTOR inhibition.