Allergy. 2022 Apr 26. doi: 10.1111/all.15327 |
Molecular reactivity profiling upon immunotherapy with a 300 IR sublingual house dust mite tablet reveals marked humoral changes towards major allergens. |
Potapova E1, Bordas-Le Floch V2, Schlederer T3, Vrtala S4, Huang HJ5, Canonica GW6, Valenta R7, Matricardi PM8, Mascarell L9 |
Abstract BACKGROUND: Molecular antibody reactivity profiles have not yet been studied in depth in patients treated by sublingual house dust mite (HDM) tablet immunotherapy. Humoral immune responses to a large panel of HDM mite allergens were studied using allergen microarray technology in a subset of clinically defined high and low responder patients from a double-blind placebo-controlled allergen-specific immunotherapy (AIT) trial using sublingual 300 IR HDM tablets. METHODS: Serum levels of IgE, IgG and IgG to 13 Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus molecules were measured at baseline and after 1-year AIT, using allergen microarrays in 100 subjects exhibiting high or low clinical benefit. RESULTS: Der p 1, Der p 2 and Der p 23 were the most frequently recognized allergens in the study population. Patients with HDM-related asthma had significantly higher allergen-specific IgE levels to Der p 1 and Der p 23. No significant difference in the distribution of allergen sensitization pattern was observed between high and low responders. An increase in serum allergen-specific IgG and IgG occurred upon AIT, in particular to allergens Der p 1, Der p 2 and Der p 23 (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: We confirm for our study population that Der p 1-and Der p 23-specific IgE levels are associated with asthma. IgE reactivity profiles were not predicitive of sublingual AIT outcomes, with 300 IR tablets as efficacious in pauci- and multi-sensitized subjects. Our study is the first to demonstrate the induction of IgG and IgG specific for the HDM allergens Der p 1, Der p 2 and Der p 23 by sublingual AIT. |
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KEYWORDS: Allergy, SLIT tablet, allergen, allergen microarray, allergen-specific immunotherapy, house dust mite allergy, molecular reactivity profile |
Publikations ID: 35474582 Quelle: öffnen |