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NATURE PROTOCOLS
Volume 7, Issue 5, Pages 891-902Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.037
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- Danish Cancer Society [DP06031]
- Danish Council for Strategic Research [09-065152]
- Center for Translational Molecular Medicine [04I-301]
- Integration of Biosynthesis and Organic Synthesis [053.63.015]
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Fluorescently labeled multimeric complexes of peptide-MHC, the molecular entities recognized by the T cell receptor, have become essential reagents for detection of antigen-specific CD8(+) T cells by flow cytometry. Here we present a method for high-throughput parallel detection of antigen-specific T cells by combinatorial encoding of MHC multimers. Peptide-MHC complexes are produced by UV-mediated MHC peptide exchange and multimerized in the form of streptavidin-fluorochrome conjugates. Eight different fluorochromes are used for the generation of MHC multimers and, by a two-dimensional combinatorial matrix, these eight fluorochromes are combined to generate 28 unique two-color codes. By the use of combinatorial encoding, a large number of different T cell populations can be detected in a single sample. The method can be used for T cell epitope mapping, and also for the monitoring of CD8(+) immune responses during cancer and infectious disease or after immunotherapy. One panel of 28 combinatorially encoded MHC multimers can be prepared in 4 h. Staining and detection takes a further 3 h.
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