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NEPHROLOGY DIALYSIS TRANSPLANTATION
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 75-86Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfaa223
Keywords
APRIL; IgA nephropathy; immunoglobulin repertoire sequencing; microbiome; tonsillectomy
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan [19H03674, 18K08234, 221S0002]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [18K08234, 19H03674] Funding Source: KAKEN
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The study shows that aberrant mucosal immune responses to tonsillar anaerobic microbiota, primarily consisting of members of the phylum Bacteroidetes, are involved in IgAN pathophysiology.
Background. Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common glomerulonephritis worldwide, characterized by mesangial polymeric IgA1 deposition. IgAN is believed to develop owing to aberrant mucosal immunoreaction against commensals in the tonsils. However, the exact interrelation between pathogenic IgA and mucosal microbiota in IgAN patients is unclear. Methods. Biopsy-proven IgAN or recurrent tonsillitis (RT) patients who had undergone tonsillectomy were enrolled. We used 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicon sequencing with a flow cytometry-based bacterial cell sorting technique) and immunoglobulin repertoire sequencing of the IgA heavy chain to characterize IgA-coated bacteria of the tonsillar microbiota (IgA-SEQ) and their corresponding IgA repertoire. Furthermore, we fractionated patient serum using gel-filtration chromatography and performed flow cytometry-based analysis of IgA binding to bacteria cultured from incised tonsils. Results. Tonsillar proliferation-inducing ligand and B-cell activating factor levels were significantly higher in IgAN than in RT patients. IgA-SEQ for tonsillar microbiota revealed the preferential binding ability of IgA to Bacteroidetes in IgAN tonsils compared with those from RT patients. Expression of immunoglobulin heavy (IGH) constant alpha 1 with IGH variable 3-30 was significantly higher in IgAN than that in RT, and positively correlated with the IgA-coated enrichment score of Bacteroidetes. Serum polymeric IgA, comprising high levels of GdIgA1, exhibited considerable binding to Bacteroidetes strains cultured from the tonsils of IgAN patients. Conclusions. These findings provide evidence that aberrant mucosal immune responses to tonsillar anaerobic microbiota, primarily consisting of members of the phylum Bacteroidetes, are involved in IgAN pathophysiology.
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