Title
High-affinity autoreactive plasma cells disseminate through multiple organs in patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Date Issued
15 June 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Canales-Herrerias P.
Crickx E.
Broketa M.
Sokal A.
Chenon G.
Azzaoui I.
Vandenberghe A.
Perima A.
Iannascoli B.
Goff O.R.L.
Castrillon C.
Mottet G.
Sterlin D.
Robbins A.
Michel M.
England P.
Millot G.A.
Eyer K.
Baudry J.
Mahevas M.
Bruhns P.
Publisher(s)
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Abstract
The major therapeutic goal for immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is to restore normal platelet counts using drugs to promote platelet production or by interfering with mechanisms responsible for platelet destruction. Eighty percent of patients with ITP possess anti–integrin αIIbβ3 IgG autoantibodies that cause platelet opsonization and phagocytosis. The spleen is considered the primary site of autoantibody production by autoreactive B cells and platelet destruction. The immediate failure in approximately 50% of patients to recover a normal platelet count after anti-CD20 rituximab-mediated B cell depletion and splenectomy suggests that autoreactive, rituximab-resistant, IgG-secreting B cells (IgG-SCs) reside in other anatomical compartments. We analyzed more than 3,300 single IgG-SCs from spleen, bone marrow, and/or blood of 27 patients with ITP, revealing high interindividual variability in affinity for αIIbβ3, with variations over 3 logs. IgG-SC dissemination and range of affinities were, however, similar for each patient. Longitudinal analysis of autoreactive IgG-SCs upon treatment with the anti-CD38 mAb daratumumab demonstrated variable outcomes, from complete remission to failure with persistence of high-affinity anti–αIIbβ3 IgG-SCs in the bone marrow. This study demonstrates the existence and dissemination of high-affinity autoreactive plasma cells in multiple anatomical compartments of patients with ITP that may cause the failure of current therapies.
Volume
132
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Hematología
Inmunología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85132320800
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Clinical Investigation
ISSN of the container
00219738
Sponsor(s)
The authors acknowledge Laetitia Languille for the coordination of patient recruitment at Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France, and Maxime Moulard (BioCytex, Marseille, France) and Habib Boukerche (Faculté de Médecine René Laënnec, Lyon, France) for their gifts of anti-αIIbβ3 (GPIIbIIIa) mAb clones. PCH was supported partly by a stipend from the Pasteur - Paris University (PPU) International PhD program, and by a fellowship from the French Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM). MB is the recipient of a CIFRE PhD fellowship. CC was supported by CON-CYTEC, Peru. PB acknowledges funding from the French National Research Agency grants ANR-18-CE15-0001 project Autoim-muni-B and ANR-14-CE16-0011 project DROPmAbs, funding by the Institut Carnot Pasteur Microbes et Santé, the Institut Pasteur, and the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM). KE acknowledges funding from the Branco Weiss Fellowship (Society in Science) and the European Research Council (ERC) (grant agreement 80336). JB acknowledges funding from the French government through BPIFrance under the frame “Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir” (CELLIGO Project), the “Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes” through the laboratoire d’excellence, and “Investissements d’avenir” programs ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL, ANR-10-EQPX-34, and ANR-10-LABX-31.
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