Journal: Heliyon
Article Title: Dysregulated T-cell homeostasis and decreased CD30 + Treg proliferating in aplastic anemia
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e35775
Figure Lengend Snippet: Dysregulated homeostasis of naïve/memory CD4 + T cells and increased the differentiation of TH1, TH2, and TH17. (A). The scores of Naïve/memory, TH1, TH2, and TH17 gene sets in BM or PB CD4 + T cells of AA patients and HDs. (B) (i) Naïve/memory score in BM CD4 + T cells of AA patients and HDs (GSE181989 and E-MTAB-9969). The information on patients with AA and HDs can be obtained from Hu Tonglin et al. . (B) (ii). Changes of naïve/memory, TH1, TH2, and TH17 scores in PB or BM CD4 + T cells of AA patients were monitored during immunosuppressive therapy (IST) using dataset E-MTAB-9969. Patient AA-4, a 52-year-old female, exhibited a somatic STAT1 mutation P.Y640F in CD8 + T cells. Patient AA-3, a 58-year-old female, presented with sAA following two years of macrocytosis and mild thrombocytopenia, and displayed somatic mutations of KRAS , NFATC2 , PTPN22 , and TNFAIP3 . The treatment response information can be referenced from Sofie Lundgren et al. . (C). The branched trajectory of CD4 + T cells was organized by individuals, with each dot representing a single cell. (D). Expression maps display log-normalized expression of key functional genes, including STAT4 , STAT1 , IL4R , STAT6 , RORC , and IL6R , in the differentiation branches of naïve CD4 + T into TH1/TH2/TH17 cells. Data is represented as log-normalized expressions With yellow indicating high expression and dark blue indicating low expression. (E). Dot plots show the expression levels of CCR4 , CCR6 , KLRB1 , and IL7R in CD4 + T cells of AA patients and HD. (F). Representative flow cytometry dot plots illustrate the expression of CCR4 and CCR6 in CD4 + T cells from PB samples of AA patients and HDs. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)
Article Snippet: The nonspecific binding of the immunoglobulin to the Fc receptors of PBMCs and BMMCs was blocked by FcR Blocking Reagent (No. 130–0590901, Miltenyi Biotec), and stained with the following antibodies: FITC anti-human CD8a antibody (RPA-T8, No. 301050, BioLegend), APC-Cy7 anti-human CD4 antibody (A161A1, No. 357415, BioLegend), PE anti-human CCR4 (CD194) antibody (L291H4, No. 359412, BioLegend), APC anti-human CCR6 (CD196) antibody (G034E3, No. 353416, BioLegend), Biotin anti-human CD161 antibody (HP-3G10, No. 339932, BioLegend), APC anti-human CD30 antibody (BY88, No. 333910, BioLegend), Percp-Cy5.5 anti-human CD25 antibody (BC96, No. 302626, BioLegend), and PE-Cy7 anti-human CD127 antibody (A7R34, No. 25-1271-82, eBioscience), combined with APC-Cy7 Streptavidin (No. 405208, BioLegend), and PE/Cyanine7 Streptavidin (No. 405206, BioLegend).
Techniques: Mutagenesis, Expressing, Functional Assay, Flow Cytometry