Duquesnoy Publications On HLA Epitopes


This updated list of HLA epitope related publications has been arranged in two sections:

  1. Publications by Rene Duquesnoy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Clicking on PDF provides access
  2. Publications by other investigators. The large number of references have been sorted in three groups
    • HLAMatchmaker and Eplet-Related Clinical Transplantation Studies
    • HLAMatchmaker Based Platelet Transfusion Reports
    • Antibody Verifications of Eplets, HLA Epitope Structure and Opinions
1. Duquesnoy, RJ: HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Donor-Selection Algorithm for Highly Allosensitized Patients. Transplantation Proc. 33: 493-497, 2001
2. Duquesnoy, RJ: HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Algorithm For Histocompatibility Determination I Description of the Algorithm, Human Immunology 63: 339-352, 2002
3. Duquesnoy, RJ and Marrari, M: HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Algorithm For Histocompatibility Determination II Verification of the Algorithm and Determination of the Relative Immunogenicity of Amino Acid Triplet-Defined Epitopes, Human Immunology 63: 353-263, 2002
4. Duquesnoy, RJ, HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Algorithm For Histocompatibility Determination. ASHI Quarterly, 2002: p. 60-62
5. Duquesnoy, RJ , Takemoto S, de LangeP, Doxiadis IIN, Schreuder GMTh , Persijn, G and Claas FJH: HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Algorithm For Histocompatibility Determination III Effect of matching at the HLA-A,B amino acid triplet level on kidney transplant survival. Transplantation 75: 884-889, 2003
6. Duquesnoy, RJ, Howe J, and Takemoto, S: HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Algorithm For Histocompatibility Determination. IV An Alternative Strategy to Increase the Number of Compatible Donors for Highly Sensitized Patients, Transplantation 75: 889-897, 2003
7. Duquesnoy, RJ, Witvliet M, Doxiadis I IN, de Fijter H and Claas FHJ: HLAMatchmaker-Based Strategy to Identify Acceptable HLA Class I Mismatches for Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Candidates, Transplant International 7: 31-38, 2004
8. Adeyi OE, Girnita A, Howe J, Marrari M, Awadalla Y, Askar M, Martell J, Zeevi A, Shapiro R, Nalesnik M, Rhandawa P, Demetris AJ, and Duquesnoy RJ: Serum Analysis After Kidney Transplant Nephrectomy Reveals Restricted Antibody Specificity Patterns Against Structural HLA Class I Mismatches, Transplant Immunology 14: 53-62, 2005
9. Duquesnoy, RJ and Claas, FHJ: Is the Application of HLAMatchmaker Relevant in Kidney Transplantation? (Letter to the Editor), Transplantation 79: 250-251, 2005
10. Duquesnoy RJ, Mulder A, Askar M, Fernandez-Vina M, and Claas FHJ: HLAMatchmaker-Based Analysis of Human Monoclonal Antibody Reactivity Demonstrates the Importance of an Additional Contact Site for Specific Recognition of Triplet-Defined Epitopes, Human Immunology 66: 749-761, 2005
11. Zeevi A, Girnita A, and Duquesnoy R: HLA antibody analysis: sensitivity, specificity and clinical significance in solid organ transplantation. Immunol. Res. 36:255-64, 2006

12. Duquesnoy RJ: The HLA system and histocompatibility testing for organ transplantation. In Pediatric Transplantation (Eds. Fine R, Webber S, Harmon W, Kelly D and Olthoff K) 2nd Edit (Blackwell Publishing, NY) In Press, 2006
13. Duquesnoy RJ: A structurally based approach to determine HLA compatibility at the humoral immune level. Human immunology 67: 847-862, 2006
14. Duquesnoy, RJ and Claas FHJ: Progress Report of 14th International Histocompatibility Workshop Project on the Structural Basis of HLA Compatibility, Tissue Antigens 69 (Suppl. 1): 1-5, 2007
15. Duquesnoy, RJ and Askar, M: HLAMatchmaker: A Molecularly Based Algorithm for Histocompatibility Determination. V. Eplet Matching for HLA-DR, HLA-DQ and HLA-DP, Human immunology 68: 12-25, 2007
16. Duquesnoy, RJ: “Match and Treat”, An Effective Strategy for Transplanting Highly Sensitized Pediatric Transplant Candidates? (Invited Editorial), Pediatric Transplantation 11: 3-4, 2007
17. Duquesnoy, RJ : Structural Epitope Matching for HLA Alloimmunized Thrombocytopenic Patients: A New Strategy to Provide More Effective Platelet Transfusion Support? Transfusion 48: 221-227, 2008
18. Duquesnoy RJ, Awadalla Y, Lomago J, Jelinek L, Howe J, Zern D, Hunter B, Martell J, Girnita A and A Zeevi: Retransplant Candidates Have Donor-Specific Antibodies that React with Structurally Defined HLA-DR,DQ,DP Epitopes. Transplant Immunology 18: 352-360, 2008
19. Duquesnoy, RJ : Update on HLAMatchmaker: a Molecularly Based Algorithm for Histocompatibility Determination at the Epitope Level, EFI Newsletter, Fall 2007 and ASHI Quarterly 2007: p.74-79
20. Duquesnoy RJ, Spellman S, Haagenson M, Wang T, Horowitz M and Oudshoorn M: HLAMatchmaker-Defined Triplet Matching Is Not Associated with Better Survival Rates of Patients with Class I HLA Allele Mismatched Hematopoietic Cell Transplants from Unrelated Donors. Biol. Blood & Marrow Transplantation 14:1064-1071, 2008
21. Duquesnoy RJ: HLA Class II Antibodies and Transplant Outcome (Invited Analysis and Commentary), Transplantation 86:638-640, 2008
22. Duquesnoy, RJ: Clinical Usefulness of HLAMatchmaker in HLA Epitope Matching for Organ Transplantation, Curr Opinion Immunol. (FJH Claas and RJ Duquesnoy, Eds), 20:1-8 , 2008
23. Duquesnoy RJ, Mostecki J, Hariharan J, and Balasz I: A Structurally Based Epitope Analysis of MICA Antibody Specificity Patterns. Human Immunol. 69: 826-832, 2008
24. Marrari, M and Duquesnoy, RJ: Why can Sensitization by a HLA-DR2 Mismatch lead to Antibodies that react also with HLA-DR1? Human Immunol. 70: 403-9, 2009
25. Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari M: Correlations between Terasaki’s HLA class I epitopes and HLAMatchmaker-defined eplets on HLA-A,B and -C antigens, Tissue Antigens 74: 117-133, 2009
26. Marrari M and Duquesnoy, RJ: Correlations between Terasaki’s HLA class II epitopes and HLAMatchmaker-defined eplets on HLADR and DQ antigens, Tissue Antigens 74: 134-146, 2009
27. Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari M: HLAMatchmaker-Based Definition of Structural HLA Epitopes Detected by Alloantibodies, Curr Opinion in Transplantation 14:403-9, 2009
28. Marrari M and Duquesnoy RJ: Detection of donor-specific HLA antibodies in kidney transplant patients before and after removal of a rejected kidney transplant, Transplant Immunology, 22: 105-109, 2010
29. Lomago J, Jelenik l, Zern D, Howe I, Martell J, Zeevi A and Duquesnoy RJ: How did a Patient Who Types for HLA-B*4403 Develop Antibodies that React with HLA-B*4402? Human immunology, 71: 176-178, 2010
30. Marrari M, Mostecki J, Mulder A, Claas F, Balazs and Duquesnoy RJ: Human Monoclonal Antibody Reactivity with HLA Class I Epitopes Defined by Pairs of Human Monoclonal Antibody Reactivity with HLA Class I Epitopes Defined by Pairs of Mismatched Eplets and Self Eplets, Transplantation 90: 1468-72, 2010
31. Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari M: Detection of Antibodies against HLA-C Epitopes in Patients with Rejected Kidney Transplants, Transplant Immunol 24: 164-71, 2011
32. Duquesnoy RJ: Antibody-Reactive Epitope Determination with HLAMatchmaker and Its Application in Transplantation (Invited review), Tissue Antigens 77: 525-534, 2011
33. Duquesnoy RJ: The antibody response to an HLA mismatch: a model for nonself-self discrimination in relation to HLA epitope immunogenicity (Invited Article), Int J Immunogenetics, 39:1-9, 2011
34. Marrari M, Conca R, Praticò-Barbato L, Amoroso A and Duquesnoy: RJ: Brief Report: Why did two patients who type for HLA-B13 have antibodies that react with all Bw4 antigens except HLA-B13? Transplant Immunology, 25: 217-220, 2011
35. Duquesnoy RJ: Humoral Alloimmunity in Transplantation: Relevance of HLA Epitope Antigenicity and Immunogenicity, Frontiers in Transplantation and Alloimmunity, 2: 59, 2011 published online
36. Zeevi A, Marrari M, Feingold B, Webber S and Duquesnoy RJ: HLA epitope analysis to assess complement and non-complement binding donor specific antibody repertoire in a pediatric heart transplant recipient, Hum Immunol, 73: 48-51, 2012
37. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Mulder A, Claas FJH, Mostecki J and Balazs I: Structural Aspects of HLA Class I Epitopes Detected by Human Monoclonal Antibodies, Human Immunol. 73: 267-277, 2012
38. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, da M. Sousa LCD, de M. Barroso JRP, de SE Aita KM, da Silva AS and do Monte SJH : 16th IHIW: a website for the antibody-defined HLA epitope registry. Int J. Immunogenetics, 40: 54-59, 2013
39. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Jelenik L, Zeevi A, Claas FHJ and Mulder A: Structural Aspects of HLA Class I Epitopes Reacting with Human Monoclonal Antibodies in Ig-Binding, C1q-Binding and Lymphocytotoxicity Assays, Human Immunology, 74:1271-1279, 2013
40. Duquesnoy RJ: HLA Epitope Based Matching for Transplantation. (Editorial) Transplant Immunology, 31:1-6, 2014
41. Duquesnoy RJ: Update of the HLA Class I Eplet Database in the Website Based Registry of Antibody-Defined HLA Epitopes, Tissue Antigens, 83:382-390, 2014
42. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Mulder A, da M. Sousa LCD, Da Silva AS, do Monte SJH.: First Report on the Antibody Verification of HLA-ABC Epitopes Recorded in the HLA Epitope Registry. Tissue Antigens 83: 391-400, 2014
43. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Tambur A, da Mata Sousa LCD, Da Silva AS, do Monte SJH. First Report on the Antibody Verification of HLA-DR, HLA-DQ and HLA-DP Epitopes Recorded in the HLA Epitope Registry. Human Immunology 75:1097-1103, 2014
44. Duquesnoy RJ: HLA epitope based matching for transplantation: the way to go! Terasaki Festschrift, Clinical Transplants 2013, Chapter 53, 441-451, 2014
45. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Mostecki J, Da Silva AS, da Mata Sousa LCD, do Monte SJH. First Report on the Antibody Verification of MICA Epitopes Recorded in the HLA Epitope Registry, Int J Immunogenetics, 41:370-377, 2014
46. Duquesnoy RJ: Epitope based human leukocyte matching in transplantation(Editorial), Curr Opin Organ Transplantation,19,418-419 , 2014
47. Duquesnoy RJ: HLA Epitope Antigenicity and Immunogenicity, Curr Opin Organ Transplantation, 19, 428-435, 2014
48. Duquesnoy RJ: HLA epitopes and tolerance induction protocols, (Letter to the Editor) Amer J Transplantation, 14:2667, 2014
49. Duquesnoy RJ, Kamoun M, Baxter-Lowe LA, Woodle ES, Bray RA, Claas FHJ, Eckels DD, Friedewald JJ, Fuggle SV, Gebel HM,. Gerlach JA, Fung JJ, Middleton D, Shapiro R, Tambur AR, Taylor CJ, Tinckam K, Zeevi A:Personal Viewpoint: Should HLA Mismatch Acceptability for Sensitized Transplant Candidates Be Determined at the High-Resolution rather than the Antigen Level? Am J Transplant. 15: 923-930, 2015
50. Duquesnoy RJ, Gebel HM, Woodle ES, Nickerson P, Baxter-Lowe LA, Bray RA, Claas. FHJ, Eckels DD, Friedewald JJ, Fuggle SV, Gerlach JA, Fung JJ, Kamoun M, Middleton D, Shapiro R, Tambur AR, Taylor CJ, Tinckam K, Zeevi A: High-Resolution HLA Typing for Sensitized Patients: Advances in Medicine and Science Require Us to Challenge Existing Paradigms, (Letter to the Editor) Am J Transplant, 2015
51. Duquesnoy RJ, Marrari M, Mulder A: Usefulness of the nonself-self algorithm of HLA epitope immunogenicity in the specificity analysis of monospecific antibodies induced during pregnancy, Frontiers in Immunology, Vol 6, May 2015
53. Duquesnoy, RJ: The Antibody Response to a HLA Mismatch: Putting Together the Pieces of a Puzzle (editorial) Am J Transplantation,15:3019-20, 2015
54. Duquesnoy RJ, Hönger G, Hösli I, Marrari M and Schaub S: Detection of newly antibody-defined epitopes on HLA class I alleles reacting with antibodies induced during pregnancy. Int J Immunogenetics un 16. doi: 10.1111/iji.12280. [Epub ahead of print], 2016
55. Duquesnoy RJ, Honger G, Hosli I, Marrari M, Schaub S. Identification of epitopes on HLA-DRB alleles reacting with antibodies in sera from women sensitized during pregnancy. Hum Immunol. 77: 214-222, 2016
56. Duquesnoy RJ, Hönger G, Hösli I, Marrari M and Schaub S: Detection : Antibody-defined epitopes on HLA-DQ alleles reacting with antibodies induced during pregnancy and the design of a DQ epitope map, Human Immunology 77: 824-831, 2016
57. Duquesnoy R: The eplet load concept in clinical transplantation, 38:(Invited Editorial) Pediatric Transplantation,20:884-5, 2016
58. Duquesnoy RJ: Should epitope-based compatibility be used in the Kidney Allocation System? Human Immunol, 78: 24-29, 2017
59. Duquesnoy RJ: Reflections on HLA Epitope-Based Matching for Transplantation, Frontiers in Immunology, DOI.org, Nov 28, 2016
60.1 Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari, M: Technology Reports: Application of HLA Epitope-Based Matching in the Clinical Transplant Setting. Part I: Antibody Reactivity with Epitopes ASHI Quarterly and EFI Newsletter, 2016
60.2 Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari, M: Technology Reports: Application of HLA Epitope-Based Matching in the Clinical Transplant Setting. Part II: Pre-Transplant Serum Analysis for Epitope-Specific Antibodies ASHI Quarterly and EFI Newsletter, 2016
60.3 Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari, M: Technology Reports: Application of HLA Epitope-Based Matching in the Clinical Transplant Setting. Part III: Control of Antibody Responses to HLA Epitopes ASHI Quarterly and EFI Newsletter, 2016
61. Duquesnoy RJ: Are we ready for Epitope-Based HLA Matching in Clinical Organ Transplantation? Invited Overview, Transplantation, 101:1755-1765, 2017
62. Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari, M: Usefulness of the ElliPro Epitope Predictor Program in Defining the Repertoire of HLA-ABC Eplets. Human Immunology 78:481-488, 2017
63. Duquesnoy RJ: Epitope-based HLA Matching for Transplantation: A Personal Perspective of Its Future (invited review), Curr Opin Organ Transplant 23: 488-492, 2018
64. Duquesnoy, RJ: The Holy Grail to Clinical Transplant Tolerance is Paved with HLA Epitopes. OBM Transplantation 2, issue 3 doi:10.21926/obm.transplant.1803018, 2018
65. Duquesnoy, R.J., Marrari, M., Marroquin, M.S., Borges, A.G. , da Mata Sousa, L. C. D. , Socorro, A. ,do Monte, S. J. H.: Second update of the International Registry of HLA Epitopes. I. The HLA-ABC epitope database, Hum Immunol doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2018.11.007
66a. Duquesnoy RJ and Marrari M: Interlocus HLA Class II Cross-reactivity: Design of a Repertoire of Eplets Shared between HLA-DR, -DQ and -DP Alleles Rejected by Human Immunology, September 2019
66b. Supplement to 66a

Publications by Other Investigators

HLAMatchmaker and Eplet-Related Clinical Transplantation Studies

  1. Dankers MKA, Witvliet MD, Roelen DL, de Lange P, Korfage N, Persijn GG, Duquesnoy RJ, Doxiadis IIN and Claas FHJ: The Number of Amino Acid Triplet Differences between Patient and Donor is Predictive for the Antibody Reactivity Against Mismatched HLA Antigens, Transplantation I28: 1236-1239, 2004
  2. Laux G, Mansmann U, Deufel A, et al. A new epitope-based HLA-DPB matching approach for cadaver kidney retransplants. Transplantation 2003; 75:1527–1532
  3. Claas FHJ, Witvliet MD, Duquesnoy RJ, Persijn GG and Doxiadis IIN: The Acceptable Mismatch Program as a Fast Tool to Transplant Highly Sensitised Patients Awaiting a Post-Mortal Kidney: Short Waiting Time and Excellent Graft Outcome Transplantation 78: 190-193, 2004
  4. Boehringer D, Reinhard T, Duquesnoy R , Boehringer S, Enczmann J, de Lange P, Claas F, and Sundmacher R : Beneficial Effect of Matching at the HLA-A and B Amino-Acid Triplet Level on Rejection Free Survival in Penetrating Keratoplasty, Transplantation 77: 417-421, 2004
  5. Iniotaki-Theodoraki A, Kalogeropoulou E, Apostolaki M, Doxiadis I, and Stavropoulos-Giokas C: Humoral sensitization against rejected grafts: Specific antibodies to graft immunogenic amino acid triplets. Transplant Proc. 36: 1728-1731, 2004
  6. Lobashevsky, AL, Senkbeil RW, Shoaf JL, Stephenson AK, Skelton SB, Burke RM, Deierhoi MH, and Thomas JM: The number of amino acid residues mismatches correlates with flow cytometry crossmatching results in high PRA renal patients. Human Immunology 63: 364-74, 2002
  7. Varnavidou-Nicolaidou, A, Doxiadis I, Iniotaki-Theodoraki A, Patargias T, Stavropoulos-Giokas C, and Kyriakides G: HLA class I donor-specific triplet antibodies detected after renal transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings 36: 1732-1734, 2004
  8. Laux, G, Mytilineos J, and Opelz G: Critical evaluation of the amino acid triplet-epitope matching concept in cadaver kidney transplanation. Transplantation 77: 902-907, 2004
  9. Takemoto S, Port FK, Claas FHJ and Duquesnoy RJ: HLA Matching for Kidney Transplantation, Human Immunology 65: 1489-1505, 2004
  10. Claas FHJ, Dankers MK, Oudshoorn M, van Rood JJ, Mulder A, Roelen DJ, Duquesnoy RJ and Doxiadis IIN: Differential Immunogenicity of HLA Mismatches in Clinical Transplantation. Transplant Immunology 14: 187-191, 2005
  11. Doxiadis IIN, Duquesnoy, RJ, and Claas, FHJ: Extending options for highly sensitized patients to receive a suitable kidney graft. Curr. Opin. Immunol. 17: 536-540, 2005
  12. Haririan A, Fagoaga O, Daneshvar H, Morawski K, Sillix D, El-Amm J, West M, Garnick J, Migdal S, Gruber S, and Nehlsen-Cannarella S: Predictive value of HLA epitope matching using HLAMatchmaker for graft outcomes in a predominantly African-American renal transplant cohort. Clinical Transplantation 20: 226-233 2006
  13. Rosenberg, J, Berri R, Jackowski M, Levis D, Nehlsen-Cannarella S, and Oh H: Multi-array antibody screening in detecting antibodies to mismatched HLA in patients awaiting a second transplant. Transplantation Proceedings 38: 3393-3395, 2006
  14. Mihaylova, A, Baltadjieva D, Boneva P, Ivanova M, Penkova K, Marinova D, Mihailova S, Paskalev E, Simeonov P, and Naumova E: Clinical Relevance of Anti-HLA Antibodies Detected by Flow-Cytometry Bead-Based Assays—Single-Center Experience. Human Immunology 67: 787–794, 2006
  15. Tambur AR, Buckingham M, McDonald L, Luo X. Development of donor-specific and non-donor-specific HLA-DP antibodies post-transplant: the role of epitope sharing and epitope matching. Clinical Transplants. 2006:399-404.
  16. Goodman, RS, Taylor C, O’Rourke C, Lynch A, Bradley JA, and Key T: Utility of HLAMatchmaker and single-antigen HLA-antibody detection beads for identification of acceptable mismatches in highly sensitised patients awaiting kidney transplantation. Transplantation 81: 1331-1336, 2006
  17. Valentini, RP, Nehlsen-Cannarella SL, Gruber SA, Mattoo TK, West MS, Lang C, Imam AA: Intravenous immunoglobulin, HLA allele typing and HLAMatchmaker facilitate suucessful transplantation in highly sensitized pediatric renal allograft recipients. Pediatr. Transplant. 11: 77-81, 2007
  18. Smita Vaidya, Brant Hilson, Susan Sheldon, Pedro Cano, Marcelo Fernandez-Vina: DP reactive antibody in a zero mismatch renal transplant pair. Human Immunol 68: 947-949, 2007
  19. Claas FHJ, Doxiadis IIN. Human leukocyte antigen antibody detection and kidney allocation within Eurotransplant. Human Immunology. 2009;70(8):636-9.
  20. Barabanova Y, Ramon D, Tambur AR. Antibodies against HLA-DQ alpha-chain and their role in organ transplantation. Hum Immunol. 2009;70:410-8.
  21. Claas FHJ, Rahmel A, Doxiadis IIN. Enhanced kidney allocation to highly sensitized patients by the acceptable mismatch program. Transplantation. 2009;88(4):447-52.
  22. Claas FHJ. Towards selective HLA mismatching in clinical transplantation. Transplantation. 2009;88(6):760-1.
  23. Thaunat O, Hanf W, Dubois V, McGregor B, Perrat G, Chauvet C, et al. Chronic humoral rejection mediated by anti-HLA-DP alloantibodies: insights into the role of epitope sharing in donor-specific and non-donor specific alloantibodies generation. Transplant Immunology. 2009;20(4):209-11.
  24. Cox ST, Stephens HAF, Fernando R, Karasu A, Harber M, Howie AJ, et al. Major histocompatibility complex class I-related chain A allele mismatching, antibodies, and rejection in renal transplantation. Human Immunology. 2011;72(10):827-34.
  25. Cox ST. The relevance and impact of MICA allele mismatching and MICA antibodies on renal transplantation outcome: University College London (UCL); 2011.
  26. Böhringer D, Daub F, Schwartzkopff J, Maier P, Birnbaum F, Sundmacher R and Reinhard T: Operational post-keratopasty graft tolerance due to differential HLAMatchmaker matching. Molecular Vision 16: 2362-2367, 2010
  27. Silva E, Alba A, Castro A, Carrascal M, Buckel E, Aguiló J, Herzog C, Calabrán L, Morales J and Fierro JA: Evaluation of HLAMatchmaker compatibility as predictor of graft survival and presence of anti-HLA antibodies. Transplantation Proc. 42: 266-269, 2010
  28. Brendan Clark, Neil Marsden, Katherine McKinley, Andrew Lewingtonand Chas Newstead Successful kidney transplantation with a well-matched donor despite a positive crossmatch; detection and management of sensitization secondary to an alternate allelic variant of ‘self’ HLA . Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation Plus 4: 258–259, 2011
  29. H. Zielinska, G. Moszkowska, M. Zielinski, A. Debska-Slizien , B. Rutkowski, and P. Trzonkowski: Algorithm to Manage Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Recipients in Poland. Transplant Proceed. 443:2903-2907, 20
  30. Alexandre Bosch, Santiago Llorente, Julio A. Diaz, Gema Salgado, Manuela LÔpez,Francisco Boix, Ruth LÔpez-HernÂndez, MarÎa J. GonzÂlez-Soriano, JosÊ A. Campillo,MarÎa R. Moya-Quilesa, Noelia Perez-Lopez, Alfredo Minguela, Luisa Jimeno,MarÎa R. A´lvarez-LÔpez, Manuel Muro: Low median fluorescence intensity could be a nonsafety concept of immunologicrisk evaluation in patients with shared molecular eplets in kidney transplantation. Human Immunol. 73:522-525, 2012
  31. Mierzejewska B, Schroder P, Caitlin, Baum C et al : Early acute antibody-mediated rejection of a negative flow crossmatch 3rd kidney transplant with exclusive disparity at HLA-DP Human Immunology 75:703-708, 2014
  32. Wiebe C, Nickerson P. Acceptable mismatching at the class II epitope level: the Canadian experience. Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 19:442–6, 2014.
  33. Filippone EJ, Farber JL. Humoral immunity in renal transplantation: epitopes, Cw and DP, and complement activating capability – an update. Clinical transplantation. 2015;29:279-287.
  34. Glotz D, Tambur A. Stratifying Patients Based on Epitope Mismatching: Ready for Primetime? (Editorial). Am J Transplant. 2015;15:2021-2022.
  35. Hwang SD, Lee MH, Chung BH, Kim Y, Han K, Yang CW, Oh E-J. Complement-binding donor epitope sharing antibodies in a kidney transplant recipient. Blood Transfusion 2015;13:161-163.
  36. Sapir-Pichhadze R, Tinckam K, Quach K, Logan AG, Laupacis A, John R, Beyene J, Kim SJ. HLA-DR and -DQ eplet mismatches and transplant glomerulopathy: a nested case-control study. Am J Transplant. 2015;15:137-148.
  37. Sullivan PM, Warner P, Kemna MS, Albers EL, Law SP, Weiss NS, Law YM. HLA molecular epitope mismatching and long-term graft loss in pediatric heart transplant recipients. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : 2015;34:950-957.
  38. van Essen TH, Roelen DL, Williams KA, Jager MJ. Matching for Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) in corneal transplantation - to do or not to do. Progress in retinal and eye research. 2015;46:84-110.
  39. Visentin J, Guidicelli G, Moreau JF, Lee JH, Taupin JL. Deciphering allogeneic antibody response against native and denatured HLA epitopes in organ transplantation. Eur J Immunol. 2015;45:2111-2121.
  40. Wiebe C, Nevins TE, Robiner WN, Thomas W, Matas AJ, Nickerson PW. The Synergistic Effect of Class II HLA Epitope-Mismatch andNonadherence on Acute Rejection and Graft Survival. Am J Transplant. 2015;15:2197-2202.
  41. Bosch A, Eguia J, Boix F, Lopez M, Gonzalez-Martinez G, Galian JA, Moya-Quiles MR, Llorente S, Muro M. HLA Epitopes and Shared Molecular Eplet Characterization and Their Implication on Transplant Outcome: The Experience of One Center. Clinical transplants. 2016;32:73-82.
  42. Bryan CF, Chadha V, Warady BA. Donor selection in pediatric kidney transplantation using DR and DQ eplet mismatching: A new histocompatibility paradigm. Pediatric transplantation. 2016.
  43. Cai J, Terasaki PI, Zhu D, Lachmann N, Schonemann C, Everly MJ, Qing X. Complement-fixing antibodies against denatured HLA and MICA antigens are associated with antibody mediated rejection. Exp Mol Pathol. 2016;100:45-50.
  44. Chaigne B, Geneugelijk K, Bedat B, Ahmed MA, Honger G, de Seigneux S, Demuylder-Mischler S, Berney T, Spierings E, Ferrari- Lacraz S, Villard J. Immunogenicity of anti-HLA antibodies in pancreas and islet transplantation. Cell transplantation. 2016.
  45. Filippone EJ, Farber JL. The humoral theory of transplantation: Epitope analysis and the pathogenicity of HLA antibodies. J Immunol Res. 2016;10:12 .
  46. Kausman JY, Walker AM, Cantwell LS, Quinlan C, Sypek MP, Ierino FL. Application of an epitope-based allocation system in pediatric kidney transplantation. Pediatric transplantation. 2016.
  47. Kosmoliaptsis V, Mallon DH, Chen Y, Bolton EM, Bradley JA, Taylor CJ. Alloantibody Responses After Renal Transplant Failure Can Be Better Predicted by Donor-Recipient HLA Amino Acid Sequence and Physicochemical Disparities Than Conventional HLA Matching. Am J Transplant. 2016;16:2139-2147.
  48. Lachmann N, Schonemann C, El-Awar N, Everly M, Budde K, Terasaki PI, Waiser J. Dynamics and epitope specificity of anti-human leukocyte antibodies following renal allograft nephrectomy. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2016;31:1351-1359.
  49. Milongo D, Kamar N, Del Bello A, Guilbeau-Frugier C, Sallusto F, Esposito L, Dörr G, Blancher A, Congy-Jolivet N. Allelic and epitopic characterization of intra-kidney-allograft anti-HLA antibodies at allograft nephrectomy. Am J Transplant. 2016;In press.
  50. Simmons DP, Kafetzi ML, Wood I, Macaskill PC, Milford EL, Guleria I. Antibodies against HLA-DP recognize broadly expressed epitopes. Hum Immunol. 2016.
  51. Singh P, Filippone EJ, Colombe BW, Shah AP, Zhan T, Harach M, Gorn C, Frank AM. Sensitization trends after renal allograft failure: the role of DQ eplet mismatches in becoming highly sensitized. Clinical transplantation. 2016;30:71-80. 37.
  52. Snanoudj R, Claas FH, Heidt S, Legendre C, Chatenoud L, Candon S. Restricted specificity of peripheral alloreactive memory B cells in HLA-sensitized patients awaiting a kidney transplant. Kidney Int. 2015;87:1230-1240.
  53. Tambur A. HLA-DQ antibodies: are they? Are they relevant? Why so many? Current opinion in organ transplantation. 2016;21:xx..
  54. Walton DC, Hiho SJ, Cantwell LS, Diviney MB, Wright ST, Snell GI, Paraskeva MA, Westall GP. HLA Matching at the Eplet Level Protects Against Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction. Am J Transplant. 2016;16:2695-2703.
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