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© The Rockefeller University Press, 0022-1007/2001/4/975/ $5.00
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Volume 193, Number 8, April 16, 2001 975-980


Brief Definitive Report

Donor-Derived Ip-10 Initiates Development of Acute Allograft Rejection

Wayne W. Hancocka, Wei Gaoa, Vilmos Csizmadiaa, Kerrie L. Faiaa, Nida Shemmeria, and Andrew D. Lusterb

a Transplantation Unit, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
b Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases, Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114
Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 75 Sidney St., Cambridge, MA 02139.617-679-7071617-551-3637

whancock{at}mpi.com

An allograft is often considered an immunologically inert playing field on which host leukocytes assemble and wreak havoc. However, we demonstrate that graft-specific physiologic responses to early injury initiate and promulgate destruction of vascularized grafts. Serial analysis of allografts showed that intragraft expression of the three chemokine ligands for the CXC chemo-kine receptor CXCR3 was induced in the order of interferon (IFN)-{gamma}–inducible protein of 10 kD (IP-10, or CXCL10), IFN-inducible T cell {alpha}-chemoattractant (I-TAC; CXCL11), and then monokine induced by IFN-{gamma} (Mig, CXCL9). Initial IP-10 production was localized to endothelial cells, and only IP-10 was induced by isografting. Anti–IP-10 monoclonal antibodies prolonged allograft survival, but surprisingly, IP-10–deficient (IP-10–/–) mice acutely rejected allografts. However, though allografts from IP-10+/+ mice were rejected by day 7, hearts from IP-10–/– mice survived long term. Compared with IP-10+/+ donors, use of IP-10–/– donors reduced intragraft expression of cytokines, chemokines and their receptors, and associated leukocyte infiltration and graft injury. Hence, tissue-specific generation of a single chemokine in response to initial ischemia/reperfusion can initiate progressive graft infiltration and amplification of multiple effector pathways, and targeting of this proximal chemokine can prevent acute rejection. These data emphasize the pivotal role of donor-derived IP-10 in initiating alloresponses, with implications for tissue engineering to decrease immunogenicity, and demonstrate that chemokine redundancy may not be operative in vivo.

Key Words: chemokine • transplantation • rejection • IP-10 • endothelium


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