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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 206, 期 2, 页码 345-354出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000918
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- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Grant [CX0001530]
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Flagellin is a dominant antigen in Crohn's disease, and only a small fraction of CD154-enriched cells in patients showed antigen-reactive cytokine responses. Antigen-reactive CD4 cytokine production was restricted to CD4 cells with an effector memory phenotype and the highest levels of induced CD154 expression, which has implications for identifying specific T cells for single cell cloning, phenotyping, and transcriptomics.
Flagellin is an immunodominant Ag in Crohn disease, with many patients showing anti-flagellin Abs. To study the clonality of flagellin-reactive CD4 cells in Crohn patients, we used a common CD154-based enrichment method following short-term Ag exposure to identify Ag-reactive CD4 cells. CD154 expression and cytokine production following Ag exposure compared with negative control responses (no Ag exposure) revealed that only a small fraction of CD154-enriched cells could be defined by Ag-reactive cytokine responses. This was especially true for low-frequency flagellin-reactive CD4 cells compared with polyclonal stimulation or Candida albicans Ag exposure. Moreover, we found that culture conditions used for the assay contributed to background CD40L (CD154) expression in the CD154-enriched CD4 cells. Using a cut-off rule based on flow cytometry results of the negative control CD154-enriched CD4 cells, we could reliably find the fraction of Ag-reactive cells in the CD154-enriched population. Agreactive CD4 cytokine production was restricted to CD4 cells with an effector memory phenotype and the highest levels of induced CD154 expression. This has important implications for identifying Ag-specific T cells of interest for single cell cloning, phenotyping, and transcriptomics.
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