Journal: Cancers
Article Title: Optimizing Ex Vivo CAR-T Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity Assay through Multimodality Imaging
doi: 10.3390/cancers16142497
Figure Lengend Snippet: BT-474-Luc2 and WIL2-S-Luc2 used in CAR-T and NK cytotoxicity assays. ( A ) HER2-positive BT-474-Luc2 cells (5 × 10 3 ) were seeded into a 96-well plate, and either HER2 CAR-T or mock CAR-T cells were added at various ratios of CAR-T cells to target cells (1:1, 2:1, 5:1, and 10:1). ( B ) HER2 CAR-T cells were used to target 2 × 10⁴ HER2-positive BT-474-Luc2 cells at a 10:1 ratio, and cell killing was measured using the xCELLigence system. Mock CAR-T cells from the same donor were used as a control. ( C ) WIL2-S-Luc2 cells or ( D ) BT-474-Luc2 cells were co-cultured with NK cells for 16 h at various NK to target cell ratios (1:4, 1:2, 1:1, 2:1, 4:1, 8:1, and 16:1) after which luciferase activity was measured. ( E ) Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) assay using Rituximab (anti-CD20) with WILS-2-Luc2 cells or ( F ) Trastuzumab (anti-HER2) monoclonal antibodies with BT474-Luc2 cells. Concentrations of monoclonal antibody or IgG1 control varying from 10 pg to 1 µg/mL were added to co-cultures of primary NK cells and reporter cells at a 2:1 NK/target cell ratio. Luminescence was measured after 4 h of co-culture. * = significant difference and ns = not significant using an unpaired t test, with a single pooled variance. N = 3 in all experiments. * p < 0.05.
Article Snippet: BT-474-Luc2 cells (2 × 10 4 cells/well) were seeded in 96-well RTCA E-Plate (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA) and left to adhere for 24 h. On the day of the co-culture cytotoxicity experiments, HER2 CAR-T cells or mock CAR-T cells from the same donor were added at an effector/target cell ratio of 10:1 and measured in a real-time cell analysis assay using the xCELLigence SP system (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA, USA).
Techniques: Control, Cell Culture, Luciferase, Activity Assay, ADCC Assay, Co-Culture Assay