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GFP-specific CD8 T cells enable targeted cell depletion and visualization of T-cell interactions

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Agudo, Judith, Ruzo, Albert, Park, Eun Sook, Sweeney, Robert, Kana, Veronika, Wu, Meng, Zhao, Yong, Egli, Dieter +2 more·2015·Nature Biotechnology

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There are numerous cell types with scarcely understood functions, whose interactions with the immune system are not well characterized. To facilitate their study, we generated a mouse bearing enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP)-specific CD8+ T cells. Transfer of the T cells into EGFP reporter animals can be used to kill EGFP-expressing cells, allowing selective depletion of desired cell types, or to interrogate T-cell interactions with specific populations. Using this system, we eliminate a rare EGFP-expressing cell type in the heart and demonstrate its role in cardiac function. We also show that naive T cells are recruited into the mouse brain by antigen-expressing microglia, providing evidence of an immune surveillance pathway in the central nervous system. The just EGFP death-inducing (Jedi) T cells enable visualization of a T-cell antigen. They also make it possible to utilize hundreds of existing EGFP-expressing mice, tumors, pathogens and other tools, to study T-cell interactions with many different cell types, to model disease states and to determine the functions of poorly characterized cell populations.

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  • Jedi T cells express a T cell receptor that recognizes the immunodominant epitope of GFP loaded in the H-2Kd allele of MHC-I.

    “we took advantage of just eGFP death inducing (Jedi) T cells, which express a T cell receptor that recognizes the immunodominant epitope of GFP loaded in the H-2Kd allele of MHC-I (Agudo et al., 2015).”

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Authors
Agudo, J., Ruzo, A., Park, E. S., Sweeney, R., Kana, V., Wu, M., Zhao, Y., Egli, D., Merad, M., & Brown, B. D.
Affiliations
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (US)
  • New York Stem Cell Foundation (US)
  • Tisch Cancer Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Brown, Brian D
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2015-11-02
Volume
33
Issue
12
Pages
1287-1292
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W1963130477
Cited by
64
References
31
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1
FWCI
1.64
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K02HL103597, R01HL107376)
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA173861, R01CA190400, P30CA196521)
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R01AI104848, R01AI113221)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (P30DK026687)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
Keywords
T cell interactions, naive T cells, microglia, central nervous system, cardiac function, T cell transfer

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