Rapid Evaluation of Soluble HLA-G Levels in Supernatants of In Vitro Fertilized Embryos

Human Immunology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-258

  Rebmann, Vera ^a   Switala, Magdalena ^a   Eue, Ines ^b   Schwahn, Eva ^b   Merzenich, Markus ^b   Grosse Wilde, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b MVZ NEXTCLINICS Kinderwunschzentrum Köln   (Germany)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction technique; HLA G; in vitro fertilization; intracytoplasmatic sperm injection; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

HLA G ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERNATANT;

EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS;

EID: 33947684355     PISSN: 01988859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Kovats S., Main E.K., Librach C., Stubblebine M., Fisher S.J., and DeMars R. A class I antigen, HLA-G, expressed in human trophoblasts. Science 248 (1990) 220
2. McMaster M.T., Librach C.L., Zhou Y., Lim K.H., Janatpour M.J., DeMars R., Kovats S., Damsky C., and Fisher S.J. Human placental HLA-G expression is restricted to differentiated cytotrophoblasts. J Immunol 154 (1995) 3771
3. Ishitani A., and Geraghty D.E. Alternative splicing of HLA-G transcripts yields proteins with primary structures resembling both class I and class II antigens. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 89 (1992) 3947
4. Kirszenbaum M., Moreau P., Gluckman E., Dausset J., and Carosella E. An alternatively spliced form of HLA-G mRNA in human trophoblasts and evidence for the presence of HLA-G transcript in adult lymphocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91 (1994) 4209
5. Fujii T., Ishitani A., and Geraghty D.E. A soluble form of the HLA-G antigen is encoded by a messenger ribonucleic acid containing intron 4. J Immunol 153 (1994) 5516
6. Paul P., Cabestre F.A., Lefebvre S., Khalil-Daher I., Vazeux G., Quiles R.M., Bermond F., Dausset J., and Carosella E.D. Identification of HLA-G7 as a new splice variant of the HLA-G mRNA and expression of soluble HLA-G5, -G6, and -G7 transcripts in human transfected cells. Ibrahim embryo cultures. Hum Immunol 61 (2000) 1138
7. Lopez-Botet M., Llano M., Navarro F., and Bellon T. NK cell recognition of non-classical HLA class I molecules. Semin Immunol 12 (2000) 109
8. Colonna M., Nakajima H., and Cella M. Inhibitory and activating receptors involved in immune surveillance by human NK and myeloid cells. J Leukoc Biol 66 (1999) 718
9. Yan W.H., and Fan L.A. Residues Met76 and Gln79 in HLA-G alpha1 domain involve in KIR2DL4 recognition. Cell Res 15 (2005) 176
10. Rajagopalan S., and Long E.O. A human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen (HLA)-G-specific receptor expressed on all natural killer cells. J Exp Med 189 (1999) 1093
11. Gao G.F., Willcox B.E., Wyer J.R., Boulter J.M., O'Callaghan C.A., Maenaka K., Stuart D.I., Jones E.Y., Van Der Merwe P.A., Bell J.I., and Jakobsen B.K. Classical and nonclassical class I major histocompatibility complex molecules exhibit subtle conformational differences that affect binding to CD8alphaalpha. J Biol Chem 275 (2000) 15232
12. Ristich V., Liang S., Zhang W., Wu J., and Horuzsko A. Tolerization of dendritic cells by HLA-G. Eur J Immunol 35 (2005) 1133
13. Jurisicova A., Casper R.F., MacLusky N.J., Mills G.B., and Librach C.L. HLA-G expression during preimplantation human embryo development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93 (1996) 161
14. Mallet V., Blaschitz A., Crisa L., Schmitt C., Fournel S., King A., Loke Y.W., Dohr G., and Le Bouteiller P. HLA-G in the human thymus: a subpopulation of medullary epithelial but not CD83(+) dendritic cells expresses HLA-G as a membrane-bound and soluble protein. Int Immunol 11 (1999) 889
15. Le Discorde M., Moreau P., Sabatier P., Legeais J.M., and Carosella E.D. Expression of HLA-G in human cornea, an immune-privileged tissue. Hum Immunol 64 (2003) 1039
16. Menier C., Rabreau M., Challier J.C., Le Discorde M., Carosella E.D., and Rouas-Freiss N. Erythroblasts secrete the nonclassical HLA-G molecule from primitive to definitive hematopoiesis. Blood 104 (2004) 3153
17. Amiot L., Onno M., Renard I., Drenou B., Guillaudeux T., Le Bouteiller P., and Fauchet R. HLA-G transcription studies during the different stages of normal and malignant hematopoiesis. Tissue Antigens 48 (1996) 609
18. Rebmann V., Pfeiffer K., Passler M., Ferrone S., Maier S., Weiss E., and Grosse-Wilde H. Detection of soluble HLA-G molecules in plasma and amniotic fluid. Tissue Antigens 53 (1999) 14
19. Rebmann V., LeMaoult J., Rouas-Freiss N., Carosella E.D., and Grosse-Wilde H. Report of the Wet-Workshop for Quantification of Soluble HLA-G in Essen, 2004. Human Immunol 66 (2005) 853
20. Fuzzi B., Rizzo R., Criscuoli L., Noci I., Melchiorri L., Scarselli B., Bencini E., Menicucci A., and Baricordi O.R. HLA-G expression in early embryos is a fundamental prerequisite for the obtainment of pregnancy. Eur J Immunol 32 (2002) 311
21. Noci I., Fuzzi B., Rizzo R., Melchiorri L., Criscuoli L., Dabizzi S., Biagiotti R., Pellegrini S., Menicucci A., and Baricordi O.R. Embryonic soluble HLA-G as a marker of developmental potential in embryos. Hum Reprod 20 (2005) 138
22. Sher G., Keskintepe L., Batzofin J., Fisch J., Acacio B., Ahlering P., and Ginsburg M. Influence of early ICSI-derived embryo sHLA-G expression on pregnancy and implantation rates: a prospective study. Hum Reprod 20 (2005) 1359
23. Yie S.M., Balakier H., Motamedi G., and Librach C.L. Secretion of human leukocyte antigen-G by human embryos is associated with a higher in vitro fertilization pregnancy rate. Fertil Steril 83 (2005) 30
24. Desai N., Filipovits J., and Goldfarb J. Secretion of soluble HLA-G by day 3 human embryos associated with higher pregnancy and implantation rates: assay of culture media using a new ELISA kit. Reprod Biomed Online 13 (2006) 272
25. Van Lierop M.J., Wijnands F., Loke Y.W., Emmer P.M., Lukassen H.G., Braat D.D., van der Meer A., Mosselman S., and Joosten I. Detection of HLA-G by a specific sandwich ELISA using monoclonal antibodies G233 and 56B. Mol Hum Reprod 8 (2002) 776
26. Noriko S., Horotsugu H., Masanori Y., Takanori S., Motoko O., Katsuhiko H., Geraghty D.E., and Akiko I. Are in vitro fertilized eggs able to secrete soluble HLA-G?. Am J Reprod Immunol 52 Suppl 1 (2004) P8
27. Ludwig M. GnRH Antagonists. In: Gardner D.K., Weissmann A., Howles C.M., and Shoham Z. (Eds). Textbook of Assisted Reproductive Techniques (2004), Tailor and Francis, London
28. Huirne J.A.F., and Schats R. The use of GnRH agonists. In: Gardner D.K., Weissmann A., Howles C.M., and Shoham Z. (Eds). Textbook of Assisted Reproductive Techniques (2004), Tailor and Francis, London
29. Fisch J.D., Rodriguez H., Ross R., Overby G., and Sher G. The Graduated Embryo Score (GES) predicts blastocyst formation and pregnancy rate from cleavage-stage embryos. Hum Reprod 9 (2001) 1970
30. Yao Y.Q., Barlow D.H., and Sargent I.L. Differential expression of alternatively spliced transcripts of HLA-G in human preimplantation embryos and inner cell masses. J Immunol 175 (2005) 8379
31. Wilczynski J.R. Immunological analogy between allograft rejection, recurrent abortion and pre-eclampsia-the same basic mechanism?. Hum Immunol 67 (2006) 492
32. Pandey M.K., Rani R., and Agrawal S. An update in recurrent spontaneous abortion. Arch Gynecol Obstet 272 (2005) 95