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. 2023 Mar 13;3(4):418–435. doi: 10.1038/s43587-023-00379-0

Extended Data Fig. 4. Flow cytometry gating strategies for SARS-CoV-2 epitope specific CD8 T cells and GZMB+ CD8 T cells, and detection and characterization of specific CD8 T cells and GZMB+ CD8 T cells in young and old vaccine recipients.

Extended Data Fig. 4

(a) Flow cytometry gating strategy for SARS-CoV-2 epitope specific CD8 T cells. (b) Flow cytometry gating strategy for SARS-CoV-2 epitope specific and GZMB+ CD8 T cells. (c) Representative data for detection of epitope specific CD8 T cells in the HLA-A2+ healthy donors before and after second doses (Day 7 and Day 50) of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine with tetramers prepared using SARS-CoV-2 epitopes. Variant strain IDs are listed in Fig. 2a. A: ancestral; M: mutated. The flow cytometry gating strategy is shown in (a). (d) Trends in tetramer+GZMB+ T cells production with age in young and old groups after the second dose vaccination. n = 6 individuals for each group, and each individual with 7 experiments corresponding to 7 distinct epitopes as listed in Fig. 5c.