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. 2021 Mar 19;7(12):eabe0013. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe0013

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