[HTML][HTML] Microfluidics sorting enables the isolation of an intact cellular pair complex of CD8+ T cells and antigen-presenting cells in a cognate antigen recognition …

S Kuwabara, Y Tanimoto, M Okutani, M Jie, Y Haseda… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
S Kuwabara, Y Tanimoto, M Okutani, M Jie, Y Haseda, Y Kinugasa-Katayama, T Aoshi
Plos one, 2021journals.plos.org
Adaptive immune responses begin with cognate antigen presentation-dependent specific
interaction between T cells and antigen-presenting cells. However, there have been limited
reports on the isolation and analysis of these cellular complexes of T cell-antigen-presenting
cell (T/APC). In this study, we successfully isolated intact antigen-specific cellular complexes
of CD8+ T/APC by utilizing a microfluidics cell sorter. Using ovalbumin (OVA) model antigen
and OT-I-derived OVA-specific CD8+ T cells, we analyzed the formation of antigen-specific …
Adaptive immune responses begin with cognate antigen presentation-dependent specific interaction between T cells and antigen-presenting cells. However, there have been limited reports on the isolation and analysis of these cellular complexes of T cell-antigen-presenting cell (T/APC). In this study, we successfully isolated intact antigen-specific cellular complexes of CD8+ T/APC by utilizing a microfluidics cell sorter. Using ovalbumin (OVA) model antigen and OT-I-derived OVA-specific CD8+ T cells, we analyzed the formation of antigen-specific and antigen-non-specific T/APC cellular complexes and revealed that the antigen-specific T/APC cellular complex was highly stable than the non-specific one, and that the intact antigen-specific T/APC complex can be retrieved as well as enriched using a microfluidics sorter, but not a conventional cell sorter. The single T/APC cellular complex obtained can be further analyzed for the sequences of T cell receptor Vα and Vβ genes as well as cognate antigen information simultaneously. These results suggested that this approach can be applied for other antigen and CD8+ T cells of mice and possibly those of humans. We believe that this microfluidics sorting method of the T/APC complex will provide useful information for future T cell immunology research.
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