Expressão das Moléculas de Histocompatibilidade de Classe I e II em Células Linfomonocitárias de Pacientes com Diabetes Mellitus do Tipo 1 Recentemente Diagnosticados. / Expression of histocompatibility class I and II molecules on lymphomononuclear cells of patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus newly diagnosed.

Ana Paula Morais Fernandes

Althougth the role of MHC molecules in the susceptibility to DM1 has not been elucidated, the density of MHC molecules on cell surface may influence the outcome of the immune response. In this study, the number of CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, CD19+ and CD14+ cells coexpressing MHC class I and II, and the correlation between the density of MHC molecules and the immunogenetic profile of DM1 patients were studied. A total of 20 recently diagnosed patients (12 males) and 20 control individuals matched to the patients in terms of age, sex and race were studied. MHC molecules on cell sufaces were evaluated using flow cytometry. MHC aleles were typed using sequence specific probes. Statistical analysis was performed by the non-parametric Mann Whitney-U test. Increased expression of MHC class I molecules was observed in patients T CD3+, CD4+ and CD8+ cells in relation to controls. The number and porcentage of double-positive CD4+/HLA-DQ+ cells were significantly decreased in patients. Compared to DM1 patients who were not typed as HLA-DQB1*02, DM1 patients typed as HLA-DQB1*02 exhibited decreased numbers of CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, CD19+ and CD14+ cells expressing HLA-DQ molecules, whereas the density of HLA-molecules was increased in CD19+ cells. Compared to non-HLA-DQB1*0302 patients, those typed as HLA-DQB1*0302 presented increased number of CD14+ and CD19+ cells expressing HLA-DQ molecules. Besides the instability of peptide ligation with susceptibility molecules, this study stresses the relevance of the density of MHC class II molecules on the susceptibility to DM1.

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