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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Immunol. 2012 Nov;CHAPTER:Unit9.5. doi: 10.1002/0471142735.im0905s99

Table 9.5.2.

Examples of Conditions Used in T Cell Activation Assays with Positional Scanning Libraries

Assay Clone No. of cells/well
APC:TCC RATIO APC Timea Reference
TCC APC
Thymidine incorporation Human/CD4+ 2.5 × 105 1 × 105 4 PBMC 48 hr Hemmer et al., 2000
Human/CD4+ 2 × 104 5 × 104 2.5 PBMC 48 hr Hemmer et al., 1999
Human/CD4+ 2 × 104 1 × 105 5 PBMC 48 hr Sospedra et al, 2006
Human/CD4+ 2 × 104 5 × 104 2.5 BLS 48 hr Sospedra et al, 2006
Human/CD4+ 3 × 104 1 × 105 3.3 PBMC 72 hr Venturini et al, 2006
Mouse/CD4+b 3 × 105c N/Ad N/Ad N/Ad 48 hr Wilson et al., 1999; Judkowski et al., 2001
Chromium release Human/CD8+ 1 × 104 1 × 103 0.1 T2 line 4 hr Pinilla et al., 2001
Human/CD8+ 1 × 104 1 × 103 0.1 T2 line 4 hr Rubio-Godoy et al, 2002a
Human/CD8+ 1 × 104 1 × 103 0.1 T2 line 4 hr Rubio-Godoy et al, 2002c
Human/CD8+ 2 × 103 1 × 104 5 T2 line 4 hr Boggiano et al, 2005
Gamma interferon production Mouse/CD8+ 3 × 104 1 × 104 0.3 T2-A2.1/Kb 20 hr Lustgarten et al, 2006
GM-CSF production Human/CD4+ 2.5 × 104 5 × 104 2 LCL 48 hr Judkowski et al, 2011
a

Time of incubation with the mixtures from positional scanning library.

b

TCR-transgenic mice-CD4+.

c

Whole spleen cells.

d

Not applicable.

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