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Article Title: Class II MHC antigen presentation defect in neonatal monocytes is not correlated with decreased MHC-II expression

doi: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2007.01.003

Figure Lengend Snippet: HLA-DR1 neonatal monocytes isolated from frozen PBMCs are deficient at MHC-II antigen processing and presentation of protein antigen and presentation of exogenous peptide

Article Snippet: Using our new strategy, antigen processing and presentation function was analyzed in negatively selected monocytes derived from frozen PBMC samples that expressed HLA-DR1 (allele DRB1*0101, ) or HLA-DR3 (allele DRB1*0301, ).

Techniques: Isolation

Journal: Journal of Virology

Article Title: Ex Vivo Phenotype and Frequency of Influenza Virus-Specific CD4 Memory T Cells

doi: 10.1128/JVI.78.13.7284-7287.2004

Figure Lengend Snippet: Frequencies of circulating DR1-HA tetramer-positive cells ex vivo. (A) Example of ex vivo DR1-HA tetramer staining of CD4 T cells before and after magnetic bead enrichment for PE-positive cells. PBMCs were stained with PE-conjugated DR1-HA tetramer, APC-conjugated anti-CD4 antibody, PerCP-conjugated anti-CD14 and -CD19 antibodies to exclude monocytes and B cells, respectively, and Via-Probe to exclude dead cells. Cells were incubated with anti-PE microbeads, and PE-positive cells were selected (enriched) on a magnetic column. Plots are gated on CD4 + CD14 − CD19 − Via-Probe − cells. The plot on the left shows DR1-HA tetramer staining of CD4 + cells before enrichment, and the plot on the right shows the same cell population after enrichment. The frequency of DR1-HA tetramer-positive cells after enrichment was calculated by dividing the number of CD4 + tetramer + cells after enrichment by the input number of CD4 cells. In this example, the input number of CD4 cells was 759,340 and the output number of CD4 + DR1-HA + cells was 46. (B) Reproducibility of the frequency estimations of DR1-HA tetramer-positive cells in six healthy DR1-positive individuals from a single time point. Between two and eight replicate tetramer staining assays were performed on a single PBMC collection from each subject. The frequency of tetramer-positive cells was analyzed as described above. The horizontal bar represents the mean tetramer-positive frequency for each individual. (C) Longitudinal analysis of DR1-HA tetramer-positive cells in two DR1-positive individuals. Four PBMC samples were obtained over a 12-month period and analyzed as described above. The mean frequency of DR1-HA tetramer-positive cells at each time point is plotted for subjects 1 and 4.

Article Snippet: All results shown were obtained using the DR1-HA tetramer purchased from Beckman Coulter, with the exception of the results for the first three time points for subjects 1 and 4 shown in Fig. , which were obtained using the DR1-HA tetramer constructed as previously described ( ).

Techniques: Ex Vivo, Staining, Incubation