Microarray analysis of the effects of IL-2 signaling on in vitro activated WT CD8 T cells
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ABSTRACT: Interleukin 2 (IL-2) promotes proliferation and differentiation of CD8+ T cells in vitro and in vivo. To define gene expression regulated by IL-2, we purified naive CD8+ T cells, activated them for 2 days followed by treatment with recombinant IL-2 or with neutralizing antibody against IL-2 and compared gene expression between the two treatments. Total RNA was extracted using the NucleoSpin RNA XS kit (Macherey-Nagel), amplified using a PicoSL RNA amplification kit (Nugen) and biotinylated with Encore biotin module (Nugen). Labeled RNA was hybridized to Mouse Gene 1.0ST microarrays (Affymetrix) according to the manufacturer’s instruction.
Project description:Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells can effectively kill target cells by producing cytokines, chemokines and granzymes. Expression of these effector molecules is however highly divergent, and tools that identify and pre-select potent killer cells are lacking. Human CD8+ T cells can be divided into IFNGand IL-2 producing cells. Unbiased RNA-sequencing and proteomics analysis on cytokine-producing fixed CD8+ T cells revealed that IL-2+ T cells produce helper cytokines, and that IFNG+ T cells produce cytotoxic molecules. IFNG+ cytotoxic T cells expressed the surface marker CD29 already prior to stimulation. CD29 also marked T cells with cytotoxic gene expression from different tissues in single-cell RNA-sequencing data. Notably, the cytotoxic features of CD29+ T cells were maintained during cell culture, suggesting a stable phenotype. Pre-selecting CD29-expressing MART1 TCR-engineered T cells potentiated the killing of target cells. We therefore propose that selecting for CD29+ T cells could boost the anti-tumoral activity of T cell therapeutics.
Project description:Much is known concerning the cellular and molecular basis for CD8+ T memory immune responses. Nevertheless, conditions that selectively support memory generation have remained elusive. Here we show that an immunization regimen that delivers TCR signals through a defined antigenic peptide, inflammatory signals through LPS, and growth and differentiation signals through the IL-2R initially favors antigen-specific CD8+ T cells to rapidly and substantially develop into tissue-residing T effector-memory cells by TCR transgenic OVA-specific OT-I CD8+ T cells. Amplified CD8+ T memory development depends upon a critical frequency of antigen-specific T cells and direct responsiveness to IL-2. A homologous prime-boost immunization protocol with transiently enhanced IL-2R signaling in normal mice led to persistent polyclonal antigen-specific CD8+ T cells that supported protective immunity to Listeria monocytogenes. These results identify a general approach for amplified T memory development that may be useful to optimize vaccines aimed at generating robust cell-mediated immunity. Gene expression analysis was performed for OT-I T cells on day 3 and day 5 after activation with ovalbumin and LPS in vivo with and without treatment with IL-2 using an agonists IL-2/anti-IL-2 complexes (IL2/Jes-6.1) OT-I T cells were purified and adoptively transferred into congenic syngenic mice. 24 hours later mice were immunization with ovalbumin and LPS. 24 hr later some mice received agonist IL2/anti-IL2. 3 and 5 days after immunization, the activated OT-I T cells were purifed by FACS and total RNA was isolated for genome wide expression analysis using Affymetrix Mouse Gene ST1.0 arrays
Project description:IL-2 signals into CD8 T cells have a programming and regulatory role in driving cells to full effector and memory differentiation. This study was designed to look for IL-2 target genes that affect CD8 T cell responses. Experiment Overall Design: Treatment of mice with IL-2/anti-IL-2 immune complexes (IL-2 complex) stimulates all fraction of CD8 T cells in vivo. Because STAT5 phosphorylation peaked 1 h after injection of the IL-2 complex, gene expression in CD8 T cells was compared at 0 h (no treatment), 1 h and 3 h post treatment. Two mice were used for each time point.
Project description:To determine functional overlap between cMyc and AP4 in CD8+ T cell priming, we retrovirally expressed cMyc or AP4 in cMyc-deficient CD8+ T cells and examined gene expression after activation. Naive CD8+ T cells from Myc conditional knockout mice with a tamoxifen inducible Cre transgene were retrovirally transduced with Myc or AP4 followed by a treatment with 4-hydroxytamoxifen in the presence of IL-7 for 2 days. RNA was harvested 48 hours after restimulation of transduced cells with anti-CD3 antibody and gene expression was compared by microarray. CD8+ T cells from littermate wildtype mice that were transduced with an empty retrovirus were used as control.
Project description:IL-10 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine that has been shown to be produced by antigen-specific CD8 T cells at the peak of viral encephalitis. We found that IL-10+CD8 T cells are more activated and cytolytic than IL-10-CD8 T cells. We used microarrays to detect gene expression changes in directly ex vivo sorted CNS IL-10+ and IL-10- CD8 T cells from a neurotropic J2.2-V-1-infected mouse. C57Bl/6 Vert-X (IL-10-eGFP) mice were infected intracranially with 500 PFU J2.2-V-1 virus and seven days later their brain lymphocytes from three mice were pooled and then isolated and negatively selected for CD8 T cells. The CD8 pooled brain lymphocytes were then sorted for IL-10+ and IL-10- CD8 T lymphocytes using GFP as a marker from the same samples. This was performed three times to obtain six samples total. RNA was extracted and hybridized to GeneChip Mouse GENE 1.0 ST arrays (Affymetrix).
Project description:ChIP-seq was conducted on isolated splenic WT CD8+ T cells, TCR-activated and cultured with IL-2 using anti-Runx3 antibodies (Ab), anti-H3K4me1 Ab and non-immune serum (NIS) as control. Two biological Runx3 and two NIS IP repeats from TCR-activated and IL-2 cultured splenic CD8+ T cells isolated by positive selection on anti-CD8 magnetic beads.
Project description:Runx/Cbfb heterodimers play important roles in the development of hematopoietic cells in mouse embryos and adults. In order to identify genes that are regulated by Runx/Cbfb, we purified Lin– c-kit+ Sca1+ (LSK) cells and Lin– c-kit+ Sca1– CD16/32+ (GMP) cells from Vav1-iCre x Cbfb(F/F) and Vav1-iCre x Cbfb(F/+) mice and profiled gene expression using microarray. 200,000 LSK and GMP cells were purified separately from two 7 week old Vav1-iCre x Cbfb(F/F) mice and two Vav1-iCre x Cbfb(F/+) mice by cell sorting. The purity was higher than 98%. Total RNA was extracted using the NucleoSpin RNA XS kit (Macherey-Nagel), amplified using a PicoSL RNA amplification kit (Nugen) and biotinylated with Encore biotin module (Nugen). Labeled RNA was hybridized to Mouse Gene 1.0ST microarrays (Affymetrix) according to the manufacturer’s instruction.
Project description:CD8+T cells are immune cells that recognize foreign antigens on infected and tumor cells, leading to cytokine-dependent expansion and activation of cytotoxicity towards the targets. To identify Runx3 regulated genes, CD8+ T cells were isolated from spleen of WT and Runx3-/- mice . Six samples (3 WT and 3 Runx3-/-) of CD8+ T cells were separately obtained from individual mice, TCR activated and cultured for 4 days with IL-2.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling and gene expression profiling analysis of sorted CD8+IL-10+ T cells compared to CD8+IL-10- T cells using IL-10-GFP(tiger) reporter mice Two sample, CD8+IL-10+ T cells vs CD8+IL-10- T cells. Three replicate per array.