Journal: Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy : CII
Article Title: Soluble HLA/peptide monomers cross-linked with co-stimulatory antibodies onto a streptavidin core molecule efficiently stimulate antigen-specific T cell responses
doi: 10.1007/s00262-009-0711-x
Figure Lengend Snippet: The proliferation and differentiation kinetic of CMV-specific T cells stimulated with sAPCs is dependent on the costimulatory signal provided. a PBMCs derived from an HLA-A*0201 CMV-seropositive donor were labelled with CFSE prior to the second and to the fourth stimulation as described in material and method and shown in Fig. 4. A negative control (Medium alone) and positive control (polyclonal stimulus via PHA) were also included. Activated T cells were harvested three days after the second (two stimulations) and fourth stimulations (four stimulations), stained with HLA-A2/CMV Allophycocyanin tetramer and acquired by flow cytometry. Cells were gated on CD3+ CD8+ CMV tetramer+ cells, and analysed for the loss of CFSE fluorescence. b Activated T cells were harvested 3 days after the fourth stimulation and stained with HLA/CMV Allophycocyanin tetramer, CD27 and CD45RO cell surface markers. Lymphocytes were acquired by flow cytometry and gated on CD3+ CD8+ CMV tetramer+ cells. The frequencies of naïve (CD27+CD45RO−), memory (CD27+CD45RO+), effector (CD27−CD45RO+) and terminal effector (CD27−CD45RO−) CMV specific CD8+ T cells is shown for the different stimulation conditions
Article Snippet: Goat-anti-human biotinylated CD27 (clone 57703), CD28 (clone 37407) and CD40L (clone 40804) antibodies (R&D, Minneapolis, USA) were resuspended in the same buffer as the HLA/peptide monomers (20 mM Tris–Hcl pH 8, 150 mM NaCl) and added to the biotinylated HLA/peptide monomers at a theoretical 1:3 molar ratio.
Techniques: Derivative Assay, Negative Control, Positive Control, Staining, Flow Cytometry, Fluorescence