• Transplantation · Dec 2016

    Induction of Major Histocompatibility Complex-mismatched Mouse Lung Allograft Acceptance With Combined Donor Bone Marrow: Lung Transplant Using a 12-Hour Nonmyeloablative Conditioning Regimen.

    • Jeffrey M Dodd-O, Sudipto Ganguly, Ante Vulic, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, John F McDyer, and Leo Luznik.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
    • Transplantation. 2016 Dec 1; 100 (12): e140-e146.

    BackgroundDespite broad and intense conventional immunosuppression, long-term survival after lung transplantation lags behind that for other solid organ transplants, primarily because of allograft rejection. Therefore, new strategies to promote lung allograft acceptance are urgently needed. The purpose of the present study was to induce allograft tolerance with a protocol compatible with deceased donor organ utilization.MethodsUsing the major histocompatibility complex-mismatched mouse orthotopic lung transplant model, we investigated a conditioning regimen consisting of pretransplant T cell depletion, low-dose total body irradiation and posttransplant (donor) bone marrow, and splenocyte infusion followed by posttransplantation cyclophosphamide.ResultsOur results show that C57BL/6 recipients of BALB/c lung allografts undergoing this complete short-duration nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen had durable lung allograft acceptance. Mice that lacked 1 or more components of this regimen exhibited significant graft loss. Mechanistically, animals with lung allograft acceptance had established higher levels of donor chimerism, lymphocyte responses which were attenuated to donor antigens but maintained to third-party antigens, and clonal deletion of donor-reactive host Vβ T cells. Frequencies of Foxp3 T regulatory cells were comparable in both surviving and rejected allografts implying that their perturbation was not a dominant cell-regulatory mechanism. Donor chimerism was indispensable for sustained tolerance, as evidenced by acute rejection of allografts in established chimeric recipients of posttransplantation cyclophosphamide after a chimerism-ablating secondary recipient lymphocyte infusion.ConclusionsTogether, these data provide proof-of-concept for establishing lung allograft tolerance with tandem donor bone marrow transplantation using a short-duration nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen and posttransplant cyclophosphamide.

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