Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: High-dimensional characterization of IL-10 production and IL-10 dependent regulation during primary gammaherpesvirus infection
doi: 10.1101/490789
Figure Lengend Snippet: Mass cytometric analysis of cells recovered from lungs of γ HV68 infected B6 or IL10KO mice harvested at 9 dpi, with cells subjected to pharmacologic stimulation for intracellular cytokine staining analysis (ICCS), using a 35 antibody panel . Files were normalized, with data gated on viable CD4 T cells, defined as 191 Ir+ 193 Ir+ 195 Pt- 152 CD3 ε + 172 CD4+ 174 MHC II-events, where numbers indicate isotopic mass for each measured parameter. (A) CD4 T cells were imported into PhenoGraph and clustered on 33,022 total events (3,669 events from each file) and 32 markers (excluding CD3, CD4, and MHC II, ), identifying 16 unique clusters portrayed on a tSNE plot. (B) All events from panel A are colored by CD44, IFN γ , TNF α , and IL-10 expression. (C) Events from panel A colored based on their cytokine profile, stratified based on IFN γ , TNF α , and IL-10 expression. (D) Frequency of CD4 T cells in virally-infected B6 and IL10KO mice. (E) Comparison of CTLA-4, GITR, ICOS, Lag3, and PD-1 expression across CD4 T cells from B6 (top row) or IL10KO (bottom row) mice, where IFN γ + TNF α + CD4 T cells were identified by a green boundary line. Parameters with a different maximum scale value between B6 and IL10KO are identified by italicized text and an asterisk. Data from virally infected lungs of B6 (n=4) and IL10KO (n= 5) mice harvested 9 dpi, with cells stimulated with PMA and ionomycin for five hours prior to ICCS. Data for B6 mice were also included in , subjected to different clustering parameters (as outlined in ). Data show mean ± SEM with individual symbols denoting individual mice, with statistical analysis done by unpaired t test, corrected for multiple comparisons using the Holm-Sidak method. Statistical significance denoted by **, p<0.01 and ***, p<0.001. ns, not significant.
Article Snippet: Mice were infected with WT γ HV68 (strain WUMS, ATCC VR-1465) , using either bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC)-derived WT γ HV68 ( ) or WT γ HV68.ORF73 β la, which encodes a fusion between ORF73 and the beta-lactamase gene ( ). γ HV68 was grown and titered by plaque assay on NIH 3T12 fibroblasts as previously published ( ).
Techniques: Infection, Staining, Expressing, Comparison