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What Is The Identification Of Peripheral C8 + T-Lymphocytes?

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Abstract Peripheral CD8+ T-lymphocytes (CTL) are critical components of the human immune system performing constant immune surveillance and elimination of infected, malignant cells thereby protecting the host against a multitude of pathogenic infections. Despite major advances in technologies for T-cell epitope discovery, CTL antigen and epitope identification from large complex genomes remain a major challenge. Here, we develop a novel single cell assay using autologous CTLs and antigen presenting cells (APCs) to enable identification of immunogenic antigens from a cDNA library encoding whole genomes without the need for HLA-typing. The assay relies on the capture of interferon gamma secreted by effector CTLs on the surface of autologous …show more content…

Thus, the identification of CTL-epitopes and antigens is a major effort in translational immunology which can aid in the design of effective T-cell vaccines, immunotherapies, and immune monitoring of many malignancies (Ott et al., 2017; Schumacher & Schreiber, 2015; Tran et al., 2016). The immense diversity of T-cell repertoire, the universe of pathogenic epitopes, and the polymorphism, codominance of HLA-alleles makes the identification of antigenic T-cell repertoire of any pathogen daunting. Several advances in genomics, proteomics and computational techniques have resulted in the development of novel approaches for identifying the HLA class I-restricted antigenic repertoire of CTLs in the past decade. For instance, biochemical methods such as mass spectrometry (MS) can perform unbiased identification of the HLA-ligandome of any cell type (Kowalewski et al., 2015; Shao et al., 2017). However MS-identification while being sensitive, does not identify immunogenic epitopes that result in T-cell activation, and generally requires large amounts of sample. Fluorescent HLA-multimers in combination with multiparameter flow cytometry can be used identify immune reactive CTLs, and have recently been combined with genomics to identify immunogenic

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