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. 2014 Mar 25;9(3):e91970. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091970

Figure 2. Human T cell proliferation was affected by edelfosine.

Figure 2

(A) Reduced PBMC proliferation upon addition of edelfosine on cell seeding was independent of the addition of PHA. Notably, PHA-activated cells appeared to be susceptible to edelfosine at 10-fold lower concentrations. (B) The inhibitory effect of edelfosine was observed if the drug was added to already activated, proliferating T cells, i.e. two days after cell seeding and PHA addition. Here, a significant reduction of proliferation in unstimulated cells was only detectable with 33.3 µg/ml edelfosine. (C) Preincubation of PBMCs with at least 3.3 µg/ml edelfosine interfered with the cells' capacity to proliferate upon PHA stimulation. No effect was detected in preconditioned, but unstimulated cells (experiments A, B, C: sample size n = 3 donors, each approach was seeded in triplicates and means for each donor are represented by symbols •, ▪, ▴). (D) 1 µg/ml edelfosine or higher concentrations profoundly diminished proliferation in MBP(83–99)-specific TCLs. One representative TCL of two is shown. Cells were incubated in quadruplicates. • stimulated, ▪ unstimulated (E) PBMCs of one donor were cultured without addition of a stimulus. Proliferation was detectable after seven days. The presence of anti-HLA-DR- and anti-MHC class I-blocking antibodies or 3.3 µg/ml edelfosine inhibited cellular proliferation (• untreated, ▪ blocking antibodies added, ▴ 3.3 µg/ml edelfosine-treated). Bars represent mean values ± SEM, *P<0.05, **P<0.01 and ***P<0.001 after repeated measures ANOVA succeeded by Bonferroni post-hoc analysis.