Molecular histocompatibility beyond tears: the next generation version

N Saleem, R Das, AR Tambur - Human Immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) matching at the serological level used to serve
as the measure of histocompatibility between organ donors and recipients. With …

Histocompatibility Assessment in Precision Medicine for Transplantation: Towards a Better Match

MY Yeung - Seminars in Nephrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Summary Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) diversity is the key driver of alloimmune
responses. Ideally, patients would receive an allograft that is fully matched at the allelic …

[HTML][HTML] Implementation of molecular matching in transplantation requires further characterization of both immunogenicity and antigenicity of individual HLA epitopes

S Bezstarosti, CSM Kramer, FHJ Claas, JW de Fijter… - Human immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past decade, high HLA epitope mismatch scores have been associated with inferior
transplant outcomes using several tools, of which HLAMatchmaker is most well-known. This …

[HTML][HTML] Epitope-Level matching—a review of the novel concept of eplets in transplant histocompatibility

A Renaldo, A Roa-Bautista, E González-López… - Transplantology, 2021 - mdpi.com
The development of de novo donor-specific antibodies is related to the poor matching of the
human leukocyte antigen (HLA) between donor and recipient, which leads to dismal clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of human leukocyte antigen immunogenicity: current methods, challenges and opportunities

HC Copley, M Elango… - Current opinion in organ …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Significant progress has been made in developing computational HLA immunogenicity
algorithms that offer exciting opportunities for a more rational approach to determining the …

Human leukocyte antigen mismatch and precision medicine in transplantation

C Wiebe, P Nickerson - Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Conclusion Recent studies that have evaluated HLA molecular mismatch in the context of
immunosuppression minimization are examples of how more precise measurements of …

Predicting alloreactivity in transplantation

K Geneugelijk, KA Thus… - Journal of immunology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Human leukocyte Antigen (HLA) mismatching leads to severe complications after solid‐
organ transplantation and hematopoietic stem‐cell transplantation. The alloreactive …

First report on the antibody verification of HLA‐ABC epitopes recorded in the website‐based HLA Epitope Registry

RJ Duquesnoy, M Marrari, A Mulder… - Tissue …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The International Registry of Antibody‐Defined HLA Epitopes (http://www.
epregistry. com. br) has been recently established as a tool to understand humoral …

[HTML][HTML] Humoral alloimmunity in transplantation: relevance of HLA epitope antigenicity and immunogenicity

RJ Duquesnoy - Frontiers in Immunology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
HLA mismatching is an important risk factor for antibody-mediated rejection and transplant
failure. With the realization HLA antibodies recognize epitopes rather than antigens, it has …

Clinical usefulness of HLAMatchmaker in HLA epitope matching for organ transplantation

RJ Duquesnoy - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2008 - Elsevier
HLAMatchmaker is a computer algorithm that determines HLA compatibility at the structural
level. Donor–recipient histocompatibility is assessed with polymorphic amino acid …