Project description:Purpose: The molecular circuits which govern CD8 T cell fate after alloimmunization by transplantation or pregnancy are unknown. The goals of this study are to perform whole transcriptome profiling (RNA-seq) of antigen-experienced CD8 T cells in parous and grafted mice to determine whether these cells become memory or exhausted T cells. Methods: mRNA profiles of OT-1 T cells recovered fom naive,OVA-skin grafted and OVA-parous mice were generated by bulk RNA-sequencing. OT-1 cells were FACS sorted from 10 individual mice per each of the three groups and then pooled together into three replicate samples per group. The sequence reads that passed quality filters were analyzed after aligning (STAR) with EdgeR. Results: Comparison of OT-1 T cells from OVA-grafted and OVA-parous mice revealed 400 differentially expressed genes. Conclusions: Skin grafting promotes the differentiation of canonical memory CD8 T cells whereas pregnancy promotes the differentiation of exhausted CD8 T cells with diminished recall capacity.
Project description:Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized systems-based analysis of cellular pathways. The goal of this study is to compare the transcriptome of OT-1 cells during priming (3 days after infection) and during effector phase ( 7 days after infection) in ODC-OVA mice after LCMV-OVA and Lm-OVA infection
Project description:We report the application of TCRβ sequencing to understand T cell repertoire of matched blood and tumor samples pre and post treatment in EG7.OVA tumor bearing mice with OT-1 cell transfer. TCRβ sequencing demonstrated that OT-1 (CASSRANYEQYF) was the most abundant T-cell clone in both blood and tumors of mRBC‑OVA-4-1BBL-IL-12 treated mice. To investigate the effects of mRBC‑OVA-4-1BBL-IL-12 on immune memory, the T cell repertoire was also analyzed before and after EG7.OVA and EL4 tumor rechallenge in cured and treatment-naive mice. TCRβ sequencing on T cells in peripheral blood showed that OT-1 clones increased in frequency after EG7.OVA challenge in previously cured mice. OT-1 frequency did not increase in treatment-naïve mice after tumor challenge, indicating that the tumor alone is insufficient to drive OT-1 cell expansion. We also evaluated the frequencies of unique TCRβ sequences in T cell clones that significantly expanded post EL4 challenge (EL4 responsive TCR). Increased frequency of EL4-responsive TCRs upon each tumor challenge (EG7.OVA and EL4) was associated with complete responders (mice that rejected EL4 challenge), suggesting that T-cell-mediated protection against parental tumor antigens was generated prior to EL4 challenge. Partial responders (delayed tumor growth compared with naïve mice) had increases in EL4-responsive TCR frequencies after EL4 challenge but not during the EG7.OVA rechallenge, whereas the non-responder (tumor growth similar to naïve mice) had minimal increases in TCR frequencies upon EL4 challenge. Overall, the ability to control EL4 tumors correlated with the expansion of EL4-responsive TCR clones.
Project description:Purpose: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionized systems-based analysis of cellular pathways. The goal of this study is to compare the transcriptome of CNS-infiltrating OT-1 WT and Tox-deficient cells during effector phase (7 days after infection with LCMV-OVA)
Project description:The aim of the project was the identification of the transcriptional signature of effector T cells and Tfh cells that emerge following immunization with different adjuvants. For this purpose OVA-specific TCR-transgenic cells (from DO11.10 or OT-II mice) were adoptively transferred into congenic BALB/c or C57Bl/6 mice, subsequently immunized with OVA-IFA or OVA-CpG. At day 11, the OVA-specific T effector and Tfh cells were FACS sorted from the draining lymph nodes for RNA sequencing.
Project description:To gain insight into the transcriptional program conferred to Th cells by B cells, we conducted microarray gene expression analyses of adoptively transferred OT-II cells sorted from the mesenteric lymph nodes of bone marrow chimeric control and MHCIIB-/- mice 5 days after immunization with OVA and polyI:C.
Project description:Inflammatory cytokines promote the accumulation of activated CD8 T cells. Here, we transfer 600 OT-I CD8 T cells iv into naïve C57BL/6 hosts. One day later, 500,000 LPS-matured and OVA257 peptide-coated DC were injected iv into OT-I CD8 T cell seeded hosts with (DC+CpG) or without (DC). Other seeded mice were infected with 2x10^4 virulent Listeria monocytogenes (vLM-OVA) iv. OT-I CD8 T cells were harvested from the spleen, flow sort purified, then RNA was extracted using RNeasy (Qiagen) kit. Naive OT-I CD8 T cells (Naive) were purified from the spleens of OT-I transgenic mice. Each group had three independent biological replicates.Transcriptomes were compared using DAVID analysis (with genes scoring FDR<0.01) and GSEA analysis. 3 biological replicates per group. Groups included Naïve OT-I CD8 T cells, DC+CpG OT-I CD8 T cells, DC OT-I CD8 T cells, and vLM-OVA OT-I CD8 T cells. Most comparisons used Naïve OT-I CD8 T cells as a baseline comparison
Project description:OT-1 T-cells were co-cultured either alone in T-cell media supplemented with IL-2 (50IU/mL IL-2), with OVA loaded macrophages, or with both OVA loaded macrophages and CT2A-TRP2-β2mKO tumor cells. Cells were cultured at a 5:1 T-cell to tumor ratio, and 2:1 T-cell to macrophage ratio. After 24 h of co-culture, CD8 T-cells were FACS sorted, and RNA extracted (RNeasy Mini Kit, Qiagen). RNA was analyzed on an nCounter MAX Analysis System (Nanostring) with the PanCancer Immune profiling panel (Nanostring) according to manufacturer instructions. Expression dat OT-1 T-cells were isolated from OT-1 mice by culturing OT-1 splenocytes in T-cell media supplemented with 50IU/mL IL-2 and 1 μM OVA SIINFEKL peptide (Anaspec) for 48 h. Cells were purified for CD8 T-cells as described above and subsequently cultured in TCM with 50IU/mL IL-2, splitting every 24h for a total of 4 days.
Project description:Purpose: ATAC-seq analysis of naive and three effector OT-I cell subsets (from a Klrg1-Cre fate reporter mouse model) isolated from the spleen of C57BL/6 mice 0 and 8 days post infection with OVA-expressing Listeria monocytogenes. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that chromatin remodeling in KLRG1+ effector CD8 T lymphocytes promotes the differentiation into KLRG1- memory CD8 T lymphocytes that provide long-lasting immunity against infectious diseases and malignancies. Methods: DNA was obtained from 50,000 FACS-purified OT-I cell subsets isolated from spleen 0 and 8 days post infection with ovalbumin-expressing Listeria monocytogenes (LM-OVA) (experiment 3). Results: Using ATAC-seq technology, we analyzed the chromatin accessibility landscape of naive and three effector OT-I cells (KLRG1+ Reporter+, KLRG1- Reporter+ (exKLRG1) and KLRG1- Reporter-). Conclusions: Our study represents the first fate mapping analysis of KLRG1+ effector OT-I cells, demonstrates that KLRG1+ effector OT-I cells differentiate into all memory T cell lineages thereby promoting protective immunity. RNA-seq identified CX3CR1 as a marker of circulating exKLRG1 early memory OT-I cells, and ATAC-seq analysis revealed that chromatin remodeling enabled exKLRG1 memory cells to exhibit both a high cytotoxic and proliferative capacity.