Journal: Cancer Immunology Research
Article Title: Characteristics of immune memory and effector activity to cancer-expressed MHC class I phosphopeptides differ in healthy donors and ovarian cancer patients
doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.cir-21-0111
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 2. T-cell responses to viral epitopes define two response patterns that distinguish recent or ongoing antigen exposure. A–D, The indicated CD8þ T-cell subsets were enriched by cell sorting, and analyzed in an IFNg ELISpot assay either after one in vitro stimulation with the indicated viral peptide–pulsed autologous DCs and a 14- day culture (cultured), or immediately ex vivo (direct). Responses were normalized for the expansion of cultured cells over 14 days and CD8þ T-cell subset percentages in the donor’s blood, as described in Materials and Methods. Responses in each subset are reported both as the number of IFNgþ cells per 106 CD8þ T cells (left y-axis) and the subset percentage of the total measured response (right y-axis). Responses to influenza M1 were measured in PBMCs collected before the donor received the annual flu vaccine and in the absence of illness (pre-vaccine) or 16 to 17 days after receiving an influenza vaccine (post-vaccine). C, Due to low cell numbers, no data are available for TSCM responses in HD44. The color coding for each subset is based on Supplementary Fig. S1. Most plots are representative of more than 1 experiment, except HD44 cultured and direct responses to EBV BBLF2/3, HD44 cultured response to CMV pp65495–503, HD43 direct response to influenza pre- vaccine, and cultured and direct response post-vaccine. HD, healthy donor.
Article Snippet: IFNg Single-Color ELISpot Plates (Cellular Technology Limited; cat #hIFNg-1M/2) were activated with 70% ethanol and incubated with primary antibody at 4 C overnight.
Techniques: FACS, Enzyme-linked Immunospot, In Vitro, Cell Culture, Ex Vivo