Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: T cells compete via reverse MHC class I signaling at the synapse with dendritic cells to secure Golgi recruitment for activation
doi: 10.64898/2026.05.13.724773
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Scheme of synapse formation between murine Flt3L-differentiated bone marrow-derived DCs (BMDC) and OT-I T cells. LPS: lipopolysaccharide; CpG-B: oligodeoxynucleotide; OVA: ovalbumin; IC: immune complex; SIINFEKL: ovalbumin (257-264) peptide epitope; PFA: paraformaldehyde. (B) Representative confocal microscopy images of the BMDC-T cell synapses immunostained for cis-Golgi marker GM-130 (magenta), γ-tubulin (yellow), DAPI (blue) and α-tubulin (green). White arrowheads: MTOC polarization. Scale bar, 10 µm. (C) Scheme of quantification of MTOC polarization: the distance between the MTOC and the DC-T cell interface (a) was divided by the diameter of the DC (b). (D) Quantification of MTOC polarization with unstimulated BMDCs or TLR ligand-stimulated BMDCs unloaded or loaded with OVA, OVA-Immunocomplexes or SIINFEKL. For each of the 3 mouse cultures, 30-35 cells were analysed. Mean ± standard error of the mean, Kruskal-Wallis test, Dunn’s multiple comparison **P<0.01, ****P<0.0001 (E) Same as panel D, but now displayed as percentage DCs with polarized MTOC (defined as polarization index < 0.3) for individual mice. (F) Electron micrographs of two different immunological synapses between T cell and BMDC, showing MTOC, Golgi apparatus (GA), and immunological synapse (IS); Black boxes indicate magnified areas. Scale bars, 1 µm.
Article Snippet: From the femurs and tibias, bone marrow derived stem cells were obtained and cultured in RPMI-1640 medium with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS, 758093, Greiner bio-one), 1% antibiotic-antimycotic (15240-062, Gibco), 1% ultraglutamine (BE17-605E/U1, Lonza Bioscience), 50 μM β-mercaptoethanol (60-24-2, Sigma-Aldrich) and 200 ng/ml human Flt3L (130-096-479, Miltenyi Biotec) for eight days at 37oC in an incubator with 10% CO 2 .
Techniques: Derivative Assay, Confocal Microscopy, Marker, Comparison