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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2020

Transcriptional Profiling of CD8+ CMV-Specific T Cell Functional Subsets Obtained Using a Modified Method for Isolating High-Quality RNA From Fixed and Permeabilized Cells.

Zachary R Healy, Kent J Weinhold, David M Murdoch

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Zachary R HealyDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, United States.
Kent J WeinholdDepartment of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, United States.
David M MurdochDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, United States.
Duke University Hospital · USDuke University · US

Funding

Social and Behavioral Sciences CoreP30AI064518 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GEORGIA Doris TOMARAS · 2005 to 2026
$50.5M
Duke CTSA (Composite)UL1TR001117 · NCATS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI BOULWARE, LEIGH E, LI, JENNIFER S · 2013 to 2017
$41.3M
INTERDISCIPLINARY TRAINING PROGRAM IN LUNG DISEASET32HL007538 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, PATTY J, PALMER, SCOTT M · 1985 to 2019
$7.2M
Longitudinal assessment of CMV and BK virus immunity in renal transplant patientsR21AI099784 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI MURDOCH, DAVID MARTIN · 2013 to 2014
$422k
Characterization of CMV-specific T cell responses in immunocompromised hostsK99AI143927 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HEALY, ZACHARY RYAN · 2020 to 2021
$248k
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001117NHLBI NIH HHS L30 HL129295NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007538NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI143927NIAID NIH HHS L30 AI155399NIAID NIH HHS P30 AI064518NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI099784
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous studies suggest that the presence of antigen-specific polyfunctional T cells is correlated with improved pathogen clearance, disease control, and clinical outcomes; however, the molecular mechanisms responsible for the generation, function, and survival of polyfunctional T cells remain unknown. The study of polyfunctional T cells has been, in part, limited by the need for intracellular cytokine staining (ICS), necessitating fixation and cell membrane permeabilization that leads to unacceptable degradation of RNA. Adopting elements from prior research efforts, we developed and optimized a modified protocol for the isolation of high-quality RNA (i.e., RIN > 7) from primary human T cells following aldehyde-fixation, detergent-based permeabilization, intracellular cytokines staining, and sorting. Additionally, this method also demonstrated utility preserving RNA when staining for transcription factors. This modified protocol utilizes an optimized combination of an RNase inhibitor and high-salt buffer that is cost-effective while maintaining the ability to identify and resolve cell populations for sorting. Overall, this protocol resulted in minimal loss of RNA integrity, quality, and quantity during cytoplasmic staining of cytokines and subsequent flourescence-activated cell sorting. Using this technique, we obtained the transcriptional profiles of functional subsets (i.e., non-functional, monofunctional, bifunctional, polyfunctional) of CMV-specific CD8+T cells. Our analyses demonstrated that these functional subsets are molecularly distinct, and that polyfunctional T cells are uniquely enriched for transcripts involved in viral response, inflammation, cell survival, proliferation, and metabolism when compared to monofunctional cells. Polyfunctional T cells demonstrate reduced activation-induced cell death and increased proliferation after antigen re-challenge. Further

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CD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCytomegalovirus InfectionsFlow CytometryGene Expression ProfilingHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansRNASequence Analysis, RNASTAT5 Transcription FactorTissue FixationT-Lymphocyte SubsetsRNASTAT5 Transcription FactorCMVfixationpermeabilizationpolyfunctional T cellsRNA qualityRNAseq

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