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HLA-DR7 and HLA-DQ2: Transgenic mouse strains tested as a model system for ximelagatran hepatotoxicity

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Title
HLA-DR7 and HLA-DQ2: Transgenic mouse strains tested as a model system for ximelagatran hepatotoxicity
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PLOS ONE, September 2017
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0184744
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Hanna Lundgren, Klara Martinsson, Karin Cederbrant, Johan Jirholt, Daniel Mucs, Katja Madeyski-Bengtson, Said Havarinasab, Per Hultman

Abstract

The oral thrombin inhibitor ximelagatran was withdrawn in the late clinical trial phase because it adversely affected the liver. In approximately 8% of treated patients, drug-induced liver injury (DILI) was expressed as transient alanine transaminase (ALT) elevations. No evidence of DILI had been revealed in the pre-clinical in vivo studies. A whole genome scan study performed on the clinical study material identified a strong genetic association between the major histocompatibility complex alleles for human leucocyte antigens (HLA) (HLA-DR7 and HLA-DQ2) and elevated ALT levels in treated patients. An immune-mediated pathogenesis was suggested. Here, we evaluated whether HLA transgenic mice models could be used to investigate whether the expression of relevant HLA molecules was enough to reproduce the DILI effects in humans. In silico modelling performed in this study revealed association of both ximelagatran (pro-drug) and melagatran (active drug) to the antigen-presenting groove of the homology modelled HLA-DR7 molecule suggesting "altered repertoire" as a key initiating event driving development of DILI in humans. Transgenic mouse strains (tgms) expressing HLA of serotype HLA-DR7 (HLA-DRB1*0701, -DRA*0102), and HLA-DQ2 (HLA-DQB1*0202,-DQA1*0201) were created. These two lines were crossed with a human (h)CD4 transgenic line, generating the two tgms DR7xhCD4 and DQ2xhCD4. To investigate whether the DILI effects observed in humans could be reproduced in tgms, the mice were treated for 28 days with ximelagatran. Results revealed no signs of DILI when biomarkers for liver toxicity were measured and histopathology was evaluated. In the ximelagatran case, presence of relevant HLA-expression in a pre-clinical model did not fulfil the prerequisite for reproducing DILI observed in patients. Nonetheless, for the first time an HLA-transgenic mouse model has been investigated for use in HLA-associated DILI induced by a low molecular weight compound. This study shows that mimicking of genetic susceptibility, expressed as DILI-associated HLA-types in mice, is not sufficient for reproducing the complex pathogenesis leading to DILI in man.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 18%
Student > Bachelor 4 14%
Other 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Researcher 2 7%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 8 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 6 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 21%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 9 32%
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