Journal: Scientific Reports
Article Title: IL-23p19 and CD5 antigen-like form a possible novel heterodimeric cytokine and contribute to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis development
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-84624-9
Figure Lengend Snippet: p19/CD5L but not either alone efficiently induces cell proliferation, STAT5 phosphorylation. ( a , b ) HEK293T cells were transfected with the control vector p3 × FLAG-CMV-14 alone, p3 × FLAG-CMV-14-p19, pCMV3-CD5L-c-MYC, p3 × FLAG-CMV-14-hyper-p19/CD5L, and p3 × FLAG-CMV-13-hyper-p40/CD5L. The cells were also cotransfected with expression vectors of p3 × FLAG-CMV-14-p19 and pCMV3-CD5L-c-MYC, together with those of p3 × FLAG-CMV-14-p19 and p3 × FLAG-CMV-14-p40, which produced IL-23 as the positive control. The total amount of DNA in each transfection sample was adjusted to be kept equal with the empty vector. Three days later, culture supernatants were collected, and 10% or 30% of them were used for stimulation of Ba/F3 cells expressing gp130/IL-12Rβ1/IL-12Rβ2/IL-23Rα. For p19 + p40 (IL-23), only 10% culture supernatant was added; therefore, “ – ” means that no data exist for the 30% lane ( a ). Ba/F3 cells were also stimulated with purified recombinant p19, CD5L, a mixture of p19 and CD5L (all 20 ng/ml), and hyper-p19/CD5L (0.1 – 20 ng/ml) ( b ). Proliferative activity of these cells was determined by measuring 3 H-thymidine incorporated into the DNA. ( c , d ) Naive CD4 + T cells from WT mice were stimulated with plate-coated anti-CD3 (2 μg/ml ) and anti-CD28 (1 μg/ml ) for 3 days under Th conditions, washed, and rested in 10% FBS medium for 6 h. These cells were unrestimulated ( – ) or then restimulated with purified recombinant p19, CD5L, a mixture of p19 and CD5L, hyper-p19/CD5L, IL-27 (positive control for phosphorylation of STAT1 and STAT3, all 20 ng/ml), or IL-2 (positive control for phosphorylation of STAT5, 100 U/ml) for 5, 15 and 60 min, and subjected to western blotting with anti-pY-STATs and subsequently anti-total STATs ( c ). FACS analysis was also performed using anti-pY-STAT5 and its control antibody after stimulation for 20 min ( d ). Data are shown as the mean ± SD in triplicate and are representative of three ( a , c , d ) or two ( b ) independent experiments. P values were determined using one-way ANOVA. * P < 0.05, ** P < 0.01, *** P < 0.001.
Article Snippet: The concentration was determined using CD5L as a standard in ELISA kit for CD5L (Sino Biological).
Techniques: Transfection, Plasmid Preparation, Expressing, Produced, Positive Control, Purification, Recombinant, Activity Assay, Western Blot