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. 2019 Sep 13;10:2209. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02209

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Identification of NRP1 as a receptor for C4d. (A) C4d-reactive cells enriched from a BW cell pool expressing a moDCs-cDNA library by multiple rounds of cell sorting. Sorting gates are shown. (B) A single cell clone derived from the C4d-reactive BW cell pool was probed with rh-C4Ad and rh-C4Bd and analyzed via flow cytometry. (C) PCR-amplification of retroviral inserts of a C4d-binding clone. (D) BW cells expressing a 5 kb retroviral insert encoding NRP1 were probed with a NRP1 mAb (monoclonal) or biotinylated rh-C4Ad, rh-C4Bd or ih-C4d (20 μg/ml each; open histograms: reactivity of NRP1 mAb or C4d to BW control cells; gray histograms: reactivity of NRP1 mAb or C4d to BW NRP1 cells). Biotinylation of rh-C4Ad and rh-C4Bd employed the NHS-biotin procedure, except for ih-C4d, which was specifically biotinylated on the thioester carbonyl moiety employing amine-PEG2-biotin reagent. (E) Monocytes and moDCs analyzed for NRP1 expression (open histograms: isotype control; gray histograms: NRP1 mAb). MFI, mean fluorescence intensity.