(A) Schematic of the experimental design. Naïve mice, or
mice infected 11 days earlier with MCMV (via the i.p. route) were seeded with
3×106
in vitro activated OT-Is. The recipients were sacrificed at 4
and 31 days after transfer. B) Absolute number of OT-Is in the
parenchyma of the SG, LG, KDN and from the CD8β+
cells of the SPL. C and D) Frequency of CD103- and
CD69-expressing OT-Is in the parenchyma of the SG, LG and KDN at 31 days after
transfer. Data are combined from 2 experiments (n= 7 naïve and 6
infected recipients at day; n=6 naïve and 6 infected at day 31).
D) Concatenated FACS plots, of CD103 and CD69 expression of the
OT-I T cells in the SG from one representative experiment (n=3
naïve and n=3 infected recipients) with mean ± SEM
values considering all the experiments. Error bars represent the SEM and the
statistical significance in (B) was measured by unpaired t-test after
log10 transformation of absolute numbers
(***p<0.001).