Table 2. Drug-induced activation of TCRα Skw3 transductants.
Skw3 cell lines engineered for the expression of TCRs bearing Vα and Vβ chains from top clones found in patients TEN-3, TEN-7, TEN-10, and TEN-15 were stimulated in vitro with EBV-transformed B cells in the presence of graded doses of different drugs or left unpulsed. This depicts the percentage of CD69 expression in CD3+ transductants measured by FACS after 24 hours of stimulation. Results from control transductants generated from abacavir-allergic (17D), allopurinol-allergic (AnWe A1), or sulfamethoxazole-allergic (UNO H13) donors (7, 52, 54) are also shown. Bold and underlined values indicate >2 or >1.5 CD69 expression fold increase versus unpulsed cultures. Transductant IDs are from table S12. Autologous EBV-transformed B cells were used for all the patients, except for patient TEN-7, for whom we did not have any autologous PBMCs available; hence, we performed the same analysis with heterologous PBMCs from different healthy donors. Heterologous EBV-transformed B cells were also used to stimulate control transductants.
| % of CD69 expression in CD3+ transfectants | ||||||
| Patient ID | Skw3 transfectant ID |
Drug concentrations (μg/ml) |
No drug | Concentration 1 | Concentration 2 | Concentration 3 |
| TEN-3 | C1 | Allopurinol (62.5/250) |
2.3 | 2.2 | 3.05 | |
| Oxypurinol (62.5/250) |
2.3 | 22.9 | 39.6 | |||
| Sulfamethoxazole (100/200) |
2.3 | 1.3 | 1.4 | |||
| TEN-7 | C2 | Pantoprazole (10/50) |
31.7 | 40.1 | 47.4 | |
| TEN-10 | C3 | Ceftriaxone (50/100/200) |
12.2 | 11.9 | 12 | 13.8 |
| Ciprofloxacin (12.5/25/50) |
10.9 | 10.1 | 11.8 | 10.6 | ||
| TEN-15 | C4 | Levofloxacin (25/50/100) |
6 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 4.4 |
| Metronidazole (25/50/100) |
6.3 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 6 | ||
| Control-1 | 17D | Abacavir (1/10/20) |
1.4 | 93.2 | 88.9 | 93.1 |
| Pantoprazole (12.5/25/50) |
1.4 | 1.8 | 1.8 | 1.7 | ||
| Control-2 | AnWe A1 | Allopurinol (62.5/250) |
4.3 | 17.1 | 26.4 | |
| Oxypurinol (62.5/250) |
4.3 | 5 | 5.75 | |||
| Control-3 | UNO H13 | Ibuprofen (20/100/200) |
5.2 | 4.6 | 10.5 | 12.4 |