Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Innate-like self-reactive B cells infiltrate human renal allografts during transplant rejection

  • Yuta Asano,
  • Joe Daccache,
  • Dharmendra Jain,
  • Kichul Ko,
  • Andrew Kinloch,
  • Margaret Veselits,
  • Donald Wolfgeher,
  • Anthony Chang,
  • Michelle Josephson,
  • Patrick Cunningham,
  • Anat Tambur,
  • Aly A. Khan,
  • Shiv Pillai,
  • Anita S. Chong,
  • Marcus R. Clark

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24615-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Intrarenal B cells are indicative of poor prognosis in human renal allografts. Here the authors use single cell RNA sequencing to examine how intrarenal B cells contribute to renal rejection and find a population of innate B cells reactive to renal-specific or inflammation-associated antigens.