| Multiplex T-cell Stimulation Assay Utilizing a T-cell Activation Reporter-based Detection System
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2021-01-20
[Abstract] Immune tolerance and response are both largely driven by the interactions between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) expressed by antigen presenting cells (APCs), T-cell receptors (TCRs) on T-cells, and their cognate antigens. Disordered interactions cause the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes. Therefore, the identification of antigenic epitopes of autoreactive T-cells leads to important advances in therapeutics and biomarkers. Next-generation sequencing methods allow for the rapid identification of thousands of TCR clonotypes from single T-cells, and thus there is a need to determine cognate antigens for identified TCRs. This protocol describes a reporter system of T-cell activation where the fluorescent reporter protein ZsGreen-1 is driven by nuclear ...
[摘要] [摘要] 免疫耐受和应答都很大程度上由抗原呈递细胞(APC)表达的主要组织相容性复合物(MHC),T细胞上的T细胞受体(TCR)及其同源抗原之间的相互作用驱动。相互作用障碍导致自身免疫性疾病(例如1型糖尿病)的发病机理。因此,鉴定自身反应性T细胞的抗原表位导致治疗和生物标志物的重要进展。下一代测序方法可从单个T细胞快速鉴定数千种TCR克隆型,因此需要确定已鉴定TCR的同源抗原。该协议描述了T细胞活化的报告系统,其中荧光报告蛋白ZsGreen-1由活化T细胞的核因子(NFAT)信号驱动并通过流式细胞仪读取。记者T细胞也组成性表达额外的一对荧光素tein作为识别物,允许同时多路复用多达8种不同的报告T细胞系,每种表达不同的目标TCR,可通过流式细胞仪区分。一旦制成TCR表达细胞系,仅需一个转导步骤即可将其无限期用于制备新的T细胞系。这种多路复用系统允许筛选TCR-抗原相互作用的数量,否则这些相互作用将是不切实际的,可在多种情况下使用(即,筛选单个抗原或抗原库),并可用于研究任何T细胞-MHC-抗原三分子相互作用。
[背景] T细胞,抗原呈递细胞(APC)及其同源抗原之间的相互作用是自身免疫性疾病(例如1型糖尿病)的主要事件(Michels等,2017; ...
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| Modeling NOTCH1 driven T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Mice
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2020-05-20
[Abstract] T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematological malignancy that arises from transformation of T-cell primed hematopoietic progenitors. Although T-ALL is a heterogenous and molecularly complex disease, more than 65% of T-ALL patients carry activating mutations in the NOTCH1 gene. The majority of T-ALL–associated NOTCH1 mutations either disrupt the negative regulatory region, allowing signal activation in the absence of ligand binding, or result in truncation of the C-terminal PEST domain involved in the termination of NOTCH1 signaling by proteasomal degradation. To date, retroviral transduction models have relied heavily on the overexpression of aggressively truncated variants of NOTCH1 (such as ICN1 or ΔE-NOTCH1), which result in ...
[摘要] [摘要 ] T细胞急性淋巴细胞白血病(T-ALL)是一种侵袭性血液恶性肿瘤,其起源于T细胞引发的造血祖细胞的转化。尽管T-ALL是一种异质且分子复杂的疾病,但超过65%的T-ALL患者在NOTCH1 基因中带有激活突变。大多数与T-ALL相关的NOTCH1 突变要么破坏负调控区,允许在没有配体结合的情况下激活信号,要么导致蛋白酶体降解终止NOTCH1信号终止所涉及的C末端PEST域被截短。迄今为止,逆转录病毒转导模型在很大程度上依赖于侵袭性截短的变种的过度表达。 NOTCH1 (例如ICN1或ΔE-NOTCH1)可导致信号传导的超生理水平,并且在人类T-ALL中很少见。当前方案描述了小鼠骨髓分离,造血干细胞和祖细胞(HSC)富集,然后逆转录病毒转导的致癌突变体形式的NOTCH1受体(NOTCH1-L1601P-ΔP)的方法,该方法与获功能突变最常见于患者样品中。组成型活性NOTCH1的这种强制表达的标志是胸腺外未成熟T细胞发育的瞬时波,此波在致癌性转化为T-ALL之前。此外,该方法通过允许白血病细胞与微环境之间的串扰来模拟体内白血病的转化和进展,这是基于细胞系的体外研究无法解释的一个方面。因此,HSC转导和移植模型更真实地概括了人类疾病的发展,为进一步的体内和离体功能研究提供了高度全面和通用的工具。
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