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. 2010 Oct 28;6(10):e1001167. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1001167

Table 1. Quantification of T Cell Polarization.

Gag-Expressing Cells Non-Gag-Expressing Cells
Polarized (% of total) Unpolarized (% of total) Total Polarized (% of total) Unpolarized (% of total) Total
Primary CD4+ T cells 253 (64.4%) 140 (35.6%) 393 530 (56.6%) 406 (43.4%) 936
P2 cells 176 (51.9%) 163 (48.1%) 339 97 (47.1%) 109 (52.9%) 206

Primary CD4+ T cells and P2 cells infected with VSV-G-pseudotyped HIV-1 encoding Gag-YFP were cultured for two days, fixed, immunostained for cellular proteins, and examined by fluorescence microscopy. Gag-YFP-positive and -negative cells were categorized based on cell morphology, and cells in each category were counted. Cells with circularity below 0.8 (see Materials and Methods) were categorized as polarized cells.