Production and Thermal Exchange of Conditional Peptide-MHC I Multimers.
Production and Thermal Exchange of Conditional Peptide-MHC I Multimers.
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10.1002/cpim.85
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发表时间:
2019-09-01
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Ovaa, Huib
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Luimstra, Jolien J;Franken, Kees L M C;Ovaa, Huib
Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells mediate cellular immunity through recognition of specific antigens presented by MHC class I on all nucleated cells. Studying T cell interactions and responses provides invaluable information on infection, autoimmunity and cancer. Fluorescently labeled multimers of MHC I can be used to quantify, characterize, and isolate specific CD8+ T cells by flow cytometry. Here we describe the production and use of conditional MHC I multimers that can be loaded with peptides of choice by incubating them at a defined temperature. Multimers are folded with a template peptide that forms a stable complex at low temperature, but dissociates at a defined elevated temperature. Using this technology multiple MHC I multimers can be generated in parallel, to allow staining and isolation of large sets of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells, especially when combined with barcoding technologies. © 2019 The Authors.