Journal: Frontiers in Medicine
Article Title: Follicular dendritic cell differentiation is associated with distinct synovial pathotype signatures in rheumatoid arthritis
doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1013660
Figure Lengend Snippet: Activation of sorted tonsillar stromal cell subsets with PDGF-BB and TNF-α/LT-β induces early and mature FDC markers in vitro . (A) The CD45 − tonsillar stromal subsets were sorted using combinations of NG2/αSMA, NG2/CNA.42, CNA.42/αSMA and CNA.42/CR2 Abs. (B) Type-1 Pericytes [NG2 + /αSMA + ; indicated by red * in (A,B) ], early FDCs; (CNA.42 + /NG2 + , CNA.42 + /αSMA + , CNA.42 + /CR2 − ; indicated in A and B by blue, magenta, and green *, respectively) and mature FDCs [CNA.42 + /CR2 + , indicated by brown * in (A,B) ] were treated with 300 ng/ml PDGF-BB or 100 ng/ml TNF-α+ 100 ng/ml LT-αβ and the fold change in FBXO2 (CNA.42), αSMA, Collagen 1, CR2, and FcγRIIB gene expression compared to untreated cells was calculated by Livak's DD equation and shown in bar graphs. (C) Treatment of the NG2 + /αSMA + type-1 pericyte subset with PDGF-BB in slide cultures for 6 days induced the expression of the FDC marker CNA.42 compared to untreated cells as demonstrated by Immunocytochemistry. Image J quantification of the mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of CNA-42 of the different conditions is shown in the histogram. Data is representative of three different experiments and is expressed as the mean ± SEM.
Article Snippet: The membranes were probed overnight at 4°C with 2 μg/mL of CNA.42 or 1:200 FBXO2 rabbit polyclonal antibody (Proteintech).
Techniques: Activation Assay, In Vitro, Gene Expression, Expressing, Marker, Immunocytochemistry, Fluorescence