Journal: Clinical and Translational Medicine
Article Title: Granulocyte colony‐stimulating factor induced T‐cell hyporesponsiveness via modulation of CD177 + S100A hi neutrophils in unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss
doi: 10.1002/ctm2.70508
Figure Lengend Snippet: Immunosuppressive capacity of circulating CD177 + S100A hi neutrophils. (A) Schematic representation of T cells and neutrophils co‐culture system. CD3/CD28‐primed pan‐T cells from healthy donors were co‐cultured in the absence or presence of CD177 + S100A hi neutrophils from G‐PB of early pregnancy. (B and C) Representative images of proliferative alterations (B, left), proportion of proliferative CD4 + T cells (B, right top) and CD8 + T cells (B, right bottom), secretion of TNF‐α (C, top) and IFN‐γ (C, bottom) in co‐cultures of pan‐T cells with or without CD177 + S100A hi ‐LDNs and CD177 + S100A hi ‐NDNs (ratio of 1:5) at Day 3.5 ( n = 7). Data are represented as mean ± SD. The symbol ‘–’ indicates T cells without CD3/CD28 stimulation, whereas ‘+’ designates T cells primed with CD3/CD28. (D) Boxplot showing proportion of proliferative CD4 + T cells (left) and CD8 + T cells (right) in co‐cultures of pan‐T cells with CD177 + S100A hi ‐LDNs and CD177 + S100A hi ‐NDNs (ratio of 1:5) under a Transwell device at Day 3.5 ( n = 3). Data are represented as mean ± SD. (E) Quantification of apoptosis of CD4 + T cells and CD8 + T cells at a co‐culture ratio of 1:5 ( n = 4). Data are represented as mean ± SEM. (F) Enriched GO terms for the downregulated proteins in T cells from co‐cultures of pan‐T cells with CD177 + S100A hi ‐LDNs. The thickness of the string is proportional to LogFC. (G) Violin plot of average expression of co‐inhibitory receptor molecules TIGIT, TIM‐3, LAG‐3 and PSGL‐1 in T cells exposed to CD177 + S100A hi ‐LDNs compared with cultured alone. The y ‐axis represents the value of the log2 protein abundance. (H) L‐Arg concentration in supernatant from co‐cultures of pan‐T cells with or without CD177 + S100A hi ‐LDNs and CD177 + S100A hi ‐NDNs (ratio of 1:5) at Day 3.5 ( n = 7). Data are represented as mean ± SD. (I and J) The proportion of proliferative CD4 + T cells (left) and CD8 + T cells (right) in co‐cultures of pan‐T cells with or without CD177 + S100A hi ‐LDNs and CD177 + S100A hi ‐NDNs (ratio of 1:5), with or without: 200 µg/mL L‐Arg (I); 200 U/mL CAT (J, top); 2 mM NAC (J, bottom). Data are represented as mean ± SD. p ‐values are calculated using the one‐way ANOVA with Tukey's post hoc test and Student's t ‐test. G‐PB, G‐CSF‐mobilised peripheral blood; LDNs, low density neutrophils; NDNs, normal density neutrophils; TNF‐α, tumour necrosis factor‐α; IFN‐γ, interferon‐γ; ARG1, arginase 1; ROS, reactive oxygen species; L‐Arg, L‐arginine; CAT, catalase.
Article Snippet: CD2 + CD3 + CD5 + CD7 + ‐pan‐T cells were collected from the PBMCs of healthy donors using the ‘Pan‐T‐cell Isolation kit’ (Miltenyi Biotec) and Lymphoprep (Stemcell).
Techniques: Co-Culture Assay, Cell Culture, Expressing, Quantitative Proteomics, Concentration Assay