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.