Abstract
Previously, we have shown that pretransplantation blood transfusion modulates the T cell repertoire to a great extent. Patients receiving a BT from a donor sharing one HLA haplotype with the patient (HLA-sharing BT) develop CTL nonresponsiveness against cells of the BT donor and show a selective decrease in the usage of T cell receptor V beta families. The present study has focused on the analysis of the T cell repertoire in patients receiving an HLA mismatched (non-HLA-sharing) BT. CTL precursor frequencies were measured against single class I-mismatched antigens in split-well analysis. In addition, blocking studies of CTL-target cell interaction were performed with anti-CD8 monoclonal antibodies. The results demonstrate that non-HLA-sharing BT immunizes and induces the generation of CD8 independent, high-affinity CTL against immunogenic class I-mismatched antigens. Such HLA class I antigens might become nonacceptable mismatches in subsequent organ transplantation.
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