1. Tracking antigen-experienced effector T cells in vitro and in vivo.
- Author
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Gorman CL, Monaco C, Ammiratti E, Vermi AC, Marelli-Berg FM, and Cope AP
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- Biological Assay, Blood Donors, Cell Separation, Cells, Cultured, Centrifugation, Density Gradient, Endothelial Cells cytology, Humans, Intracellular Space metabolism, Leukocytes, Mononuclear cytology, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell immunology, Staining and Labeling, Antigens immunology, Cell Movement immunology, Flow Cytometry methods, T-Lymphocytes cytology, T-Lymphocytes immunology
- Abstract
The TCR complex is a multisubunit complex, comprising at least eight transmembrane units. The clonotypic TCR alpha and beta chains are responsible for antigen recognition, whilst the invariant chains of the CD3 complex (delta, epsilon and gamma) and two zeta (zeta) polypeptides couple antigen recognition to downstream signal transduction pathways. TCRzeta (CD247) functions as an amplification module in the TCR signalling cascade and is also essential for the assembly and surface expression of the TCR/CD3 complex. Loss of TCRzeta expression is common in chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases, as well as in cancer. Previous work has indicated that TCRzeta(low)-expressing cells phenotypically resemble antigen-experienced effector T cells. Here, we describe the derivation of a flow cytometry-based TCRzeta expression index for the purpose of more precisely defining TCRzeta expression, in addition to utilising a simple transmigration assay in the demonstration that TCRzeta(dim) T cells have intrinsic migratory properties that may explain their accumulation at sites of inflammation.
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- 2010
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