Journal: Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Article Title: CD25 and protein phosphatase 2A cooperate to enhance IL-2R signaling in human regulatory T cells
doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1801570
Figure Lengend Snippet: Overexpression and knockdown of PP2Ac does not alter pSTAT5 response to IL-2 by human Teff cells. (A-B) Expression of PP2Ac in freshly isolated Treg and TEM cells were assessed using Western blotting (n=3) (A) and flow cytometry (n=3) (B). (C) Quantification of the enzymatic activity of PP2A in freshly isolated Treg and TEM cells (n=3). (D, E) Transduction efficiency in vector-transduced and PP2Ac-overexpressed Teff cells (D) or in control and PP2Ac shRNA-transduced cells (E) was assessed by the percentage of GFP+ cells. (F, G) PP2Ac expression in control and PP2Ac-transduced overexpressed cells (F) or in control and PP2Ac shRNA knockdown cells (G) was assessed by flow cytometry (n=3). Teff cells transduced with PP2Ac shRNA were gated into two groups according to the knockdown efficiency and this gating strategy was used for pSTAT5 analysis in Fig. 8K. (H, I) Representative histograms for CD25 expression for control and PP2Ac-overexpressed (H) or for control and PP2Ac shRNA transduced Teff cells (I). The numbers in the FACS plots are the MFI of CD25 for the indicated cell populations. (J, K) IL-2-induced pSTAT5 dose-response curves (left) of control and PP2Ac-overexpressed (J) or control and PP2Ac shRNA transduced Teff cells (K). Nonlinear regression analysis of the binding data (middle) was performed to determine EC50 (right) (n=3). Data (A-C, F, G, J, K) are shown as the means ± SEM and were analyzed by a one-sample two-tailed t test (A-C, F, J, K).. *P < 0.05; ***P < 0.001; ns, not significant.
Article Snippet: The full coding sequences of human PP2Ac was PCR amplified from PP2Ac-alpha (PPP2CA) ( {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"NM_002715","term_id":"1519312245","term_text":"NM_002715"}} NM_002715 ) human untagged clone (# SC321401, Origene, Rockville, MD) using the following primers: PPP2CA - cloning-for 5’- TATGGATCCATGGACGAGAAGGTGTTCACCAAGG-3’; PPP2CA - cloning-rev 5’- GTGTGGAATTCTTACAGGAAGTAGTCTGGGGTACGACG −3’.
Techniques: Over Expression, Knockdown, Expressing, Isolation, Western Blot, Flow Cytometry, Activity Assay, Transduction, Plasmid Preparation, Control, shRNA, Binding Assay, Two Tailed Test