Shedding Light on Drug-Induced Liver Injury: Activation of T Cells From Drug Naive Human Donors With Tolvaptan and a Hydroxybutyric Acid Metabolite



Hammond, Sean, Gibson, Andrew, Jaruthamsophon, Kanoot ORCID: 0000-0003-1563-0024, Roth, Sharin, Mosedale, Merrie and Naisbitt, Dean J
(2021) Shedding Light on Drug-Induced Liver Injury: Activation of T Cells From Drug Naive Human Donors With Tolvaptan and a Hydroxybutyric Acid Metabolite. TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 179 (1). pp. 95-107.

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Abstract

Exposure to tolvaptan is associated with a significant risk of liver injury in a small fraction of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. The observed delayed onset of liver injury of between 3 and 18 months after commencing tolvaptan treatment, along with rapid recurrence of symptoms following re-challenge is indicative of an adaptive immune attack. This study set out to assess the intrinsic immunogenicity of tolvaptan and pathways of drug-specific T-cell activation using in vitro cell culture platforms. Tolvaptan (n = 7), as well as oxybutyric (DM-4103, n = 1) and hydroxybutyric acid (DM-4107, n = 18) metabolite-specific T-cell clones were generated from tolvaptan naive healthy donor peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Tolvaptan and DM-4103 T-cell clones could also be activated with DM-4107, whereas T-cell clones originally primed with DM-4107 were highly specific to this compound. A signature cytokine profile (IFN-γ, IL-13, granzyme B, and perforin) for almost all T-cell clones was identified. Mechanistically, compound-specific T-cell clone activation was dependent on the presence of soluble drug and could occur within 4 h of drug exposure, ruling out a classical hapten mechanism. However, antigen processing dependence drug presentation was indicated in many T-cell clones. Collectively these data show that tolvaptan-associated liver injury may be attributable to an adaptive immune attack upon the liver, with tolvaptan- and metabolite-specific T cells identified as candidate effector cells in such etiology.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Tolvaptan, drug-induced liver injury, T-lymphocytes, ADPKD, human
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2021 15:23
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:37
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfaa157
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3128546