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Personalized Peptide Arrays for Detection of HLA Alloantibodies in Organ Transplantation
Published on: September 6, 2017
Epitope-based human leukocyte antigen matching for transplantation: a personal perspective of its future
1University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Purpose Of Review:
This study reflects my personal experience with the characterization of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) epitopes and their significance in HLA matching for transplantation. It offers a subjective assessment what further studies are needed to have this concept be applied in the clinical setting.
Recent Findings:
This study addresses the structural characteristics of antibody-reactive HLA epitopes determined by different methods, eplet-associated antibody analysis and acceptable mismatching for sensitized patients and eplet immunogenicity and determination of mismatch permissibility. BASIC IMPLICATIONS: for clinical practice and research consider the need for further studies of the structural basis of antibody-verified HLA epitopes determined in different techniques and their clinical relevance, the biological basis of epitope immunogenicity and determinations of permissible mismatches and a computerized clinical transplant database with an Artificial Intelligence component that can generate evidence-based information for the practical application of epitope-based HLA matching.
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