Figure 4.
Six color FACS® analysis of HIV-specific CD4+ T cells in aviremic and viremic patients. (a) Representative pseudo color plots of phenotypic analysis of G067-specific CD4+ T cells in PBMCs from aviremic (12C) and viremic (111) patients. Numbers above 0.01% in each plot were considered positive. Patients' PBMCs were stimulated with G067 peptide for 12 h in the presence of Brefeldin A and stained with biotinylated anti-CCR7 followed by streptavidin PE-Cy7, anti-CD4 APC-Cy7. Anti–IL-2 PE, anti–IFN-γ APC, and anti-CD69 FITC were added after fixation/permeabilization of the cells. 3 × 105 gated CD4+ T cell events are shown. (b) Schematic representation of IL-2+ and/or IFN-γ+ CD4+ T cell distributions and the expression of CCR7/CD45RA in three aviremic and three viremic patients after stimulation with G067 peptide. Data are representative of three different experiments.