Journal: Science Advances
Article Title: HIV-1 manipulates CD96 on CD4 + T cells to subvert antiviral immunity
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adx7485
Figure Lengend Snippet: ( A ) PBMCs were stimulated with HCMV pp65 peptide and costimulated either alone or in combination with CD155 or anti-CD96 (each 5 μg/ml) and stained for IFN-γ 21 hours later. IFN-γ secretion was calculated as fold change relative to pp65 stimulation only (mock). ( n = 10, Kruskal-Wallis test with uncorrected Dunn’s test). * P < 0.05 and ** P < 0.01. Depicted are primary data from two donors. ( B ) Resting primary CD4 + T cells were infected with HIV-1 NL4-3–IRES–eGFP or the N − /U − variant and stimulated at 6 hours postinfection with CD3/CD28 antibodies. Two days postinfection, cells were restimulated with CD3/CD28 antibodies either alone or in combination with anti-CD96 or an isotype control. Three days later, IFN-γ secretion was assessed via flow cytometry ( n = 5, paired one-tailed t test). ( C ) Primary CD4 + T cells were stimulated with CD3/CD28 antibodies (0.5 μg/ml each) and mock treated or costimulated with coated CD96 antibody (2.5 μg/ml) or isotype (2.5 μg/ml). Three days poststimulation, supernatants were harvested for a cytokine array ( n = 3, one representative array shown). GM-CSF, granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. ( D ) Heatmap illustrating relative abundance of analyzed cytokines normalized to the respective controls. [Mean values, n = 3; n = 2 for IL-6, macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF), and fibroblast growth factor 6 (FGF-6)]. Only cytokines with >2% relative abundance in at least one treatment condition were included. LIF, leukemia inhibitory factor; BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor; SCF, stem cell factor; MIF, migration inhibition factor; EGF, epidermal growth factor; GDNF, glial cell line–derived neurotrophic factor. ( E ) X-fold change in cytokine secretion between CD96 antibody versus isotype-treated CD4 + T cells was calculated, and the waterfall plot depicts changes of >2 ( n = 3, ±SD, multiple unpaired t test with individual P values). ( F ) Pathway analyses using Enrichr (Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes 2021 database) and as input the nine significantly regulated genes from (E). Bar length and brightness correlates with significance ( q > 0.0001). For “IL-17 signaling,” key cytokines from (E) are indicated.
Article Snippet: Coating was performed by incubating wells with 70 μl of PBS containing either recombinant human Nectin-1 (5 μg/ml; BioLegend), CD155 (5 μg/ml; BioLegend), anti-CD96 antibody (2.5 μg/ml; clone REA195, Miltenyi Biotec), or an isotype control antibody (2.5 μg/ml; REA control human IgG1, Miltenyi Biotec) for 2 hours at 37°C.
Techniques: Staining, Infection, Variant Assay, Control, Flow Cytometry, One-tailed Test, Derivative Assay, Migration, Inhibition