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BLOOD
Volume 113, Issue 13, Pages 3119-3129Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-06-164103
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- Fondazione Berlucchi
- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro (AIRC)
- Istituto Superiore di Sanita (ISS)
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR-PRIN) [2005063024_004, 2006061378_003, RBNE017B4]
- European Union [LSHB-CT-2004-503319-Allostem]
- Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo
- Ministero della Salute
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We analyzed 21 children with leukemia receiving haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (haplo-HSCT) from killer immunoglobulin (Ig)-like receptors (KIR) ligand-mismatched donors. We showed that, in most transplantation patients, variable proportions of donor-derived alloreactive natural killer (NK) cells displaying anti-leukemia activity were generated and maintained even late after transplantation. This was assessed through analysis of donor KIR genotype, as well as through phenotypic and functional analyses of NK cells, both at the polyclonal and clonal level. Donor-derived KIR2DL1(+) NK cells isolated from the recipient displayed the expected capability of selectively killing C1/C1 target cells, including patient leukemia blasts. Differently, KIR2DL2/3(+) NK cells displayed poor alloreactivity against leukemia cells carrying human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles belonging to C2 group. Unexpectedly, this was due to recognition of C2 by KIR2DL2/3, as revealed by receptor blocking experiments and by binding assays of soluble KIR to HLA-C transfectants. Remarkably, however, C2/C2 leukemia blasts were killed by KIR2DL2/3(+) ( or by NKG2A(+)) NK cells that coexpressed KIR2DS1. This could be explained by the ability of KIR2DS1 to directly recognize C2 on leukemia cells. A role of the KIR2DS2 activating receptor in leukemia cell lysis could not be demonstrated. Altogether, these results may have important clinical implications for the selection of optimal donors for haplo-HSCT. ( Blood. 2009; 113: 3119-3129)
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