Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Synaptic synergy of T cell receptor and interleukin 2 receptor in CD8 + T cells
doi: 10.1101/2024.08.13.607831
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Histograms of phospho-flow cytometry data showing total levels of pSTAT5 after 10 min incubation at 37 ° C in the presence (+IL2) or absence (No IL2) of 50 U/ml of IL2 treatment; for naïve (yellow), memory (magenta) and blast (blue) CD8 + T cells. Bar plots (right) show the mean +/- SE of the pSTAT5 median fluorescence intensity (MFI) from three independent donors. (B) Representative z-stack Airyscan reconstruction of RA14 CD8 + blasts forming a IS on an HLA-A2-p65 peptide bearing SLB in the presence or absence of 50 U/ml of IL2. Sample was fixed after 10 min of SLB exposure, permeabilized and stained for F-actin and immunostained against pSTAT5. (C) Representative TIRF images of Naïve (top), Memory (middle) and Blast (bottom) CD8 + T cells forming an IS with a SLB and fixed after the indicated time-point. 0 min represents cells fixed after 15 min of contact with a SLB without UCHT1 (no IS formation). pSTAT5, magenta; pZAP70, green. White pixels show overlap between pSTAT5 and pZAP70. (D-F) Plots show the mean intensity for pSTAT5 (magenta) and pZAP70 (green) normalized to the 0 min time-point (left Y axis) and the Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (PCC, grey) between pSTAT5 and pZAP70 signals (right Y axis) over time for naïve (d), memory (e) and blast (f) CD8 + T cells. Data is the mean +/- SE of 25-50 cells. (G-K) Naïve (g-h), memory (i-j) or blast (k-l) RA14 CD8 + T cells were exposed to Ag-specific SLBs in the presence or absence of 50 U/ml of IL2 to visualize IS formation. Cells were fixed after 10 min of bilayer exposure and immunostained for pSTAT5 (magenta), pZAP70 (yellow), IL2RG (cyan), TCR (green). (g, i and k) Representative TIRF images of ISs. Merge is the overlap between channels. Histograms on the right show the intensity profile across the yellow line shown in the merge images. (h, j and l) show the dot plots with the mean intensity for pSTAT5 and pZAP70 normalized to the condition without IL2. Data is the mean +/- SE, n=90-150 from 3 independent donors (50 cells/donor for naïve and blast and 30 cells/donor for memory). ns, not significant, *pv<0.05, **pv<0.01; Mann-Whitney test.
Article Snippet: CD8+ T cells were purified using the negative selection kits RosetteSep™ Human CD8+ T Cell Enrichment Cocktail (StemCell Technologies).
Techniques: Flow Cytometry, Incubation, Fluorescence, Staining, MANN-WHITNEY