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ReviewScandinavian journal of immunology2015

Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Dextramers: New Tools for the Detection of antigen-Specific, CD4 T Cells in Basic and Clinical Research.

C Massilamany, B Krishnan, J Reddy

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Review in Scandinavian journal of immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

C MassilamanySchool of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
B KrishnanSchool of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
J ReddySchool of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.

Funding

Autoimmunity in the Mediation of Infectious MyocarditisR01HL114669 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · PI REDDY, JAY · 2013 to 2016
$1.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL114669NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL114669
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) tetramer technology has been a major contribution to T cell immunology, because tetramer reagents permit detection of antigen-specific T cells at the single-cell level in heterogeneous populations by flow cytometry. However, unlike MHC class I tetramers, the utility of MHC class II tetramers has been less frequently reported. MHC class II tetramers can be used successfully to enumerate the frequencies of antigen-specific CD4 T cells in cells activated in vitro, but their use for ex vivo analyses continues to be a problem, due in part to their activation dependency for binding with T cells. To circumvent this problem, we recently reported the creation of a new generation of reagents called MHC class II dextramers, which were found to be superior to their counterparts. In this review, we discuss the utility of class II dextramers vis-a-vis tetramers, with respect to their specificity and sensitivity, including potential applications and limitations.

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AnimalsAntigen PresentationAntigensCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCell SeparationFlow CytometryHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHumansProtein MultimerizationResearchSensitivity and SpecificityT-Cell Antigen Receptor SpecificityAntigensHistocompatibility Antigens Class II

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PMID26207337
PMCPMC4610346

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