Abstract
The ability to directly measure virus-specific lymphocytes using fluorochrome-labeled tetrameric complexes has proven a great advancement for the transplantation field. Viral peptide/HLA tetrameric complexes allow the rapid generation of virus-specific clones using single cell sorting apparatus, permitting the determination of alloreactivity from a single TCR with known specificity. When combined with new target "detector" cells called single HLA antigen-transfected K562 cells (SALs), the human alloresponse can for the first time be examined specifically and reliably. Here we describe a method for detection of "heterologous immunity" from virus-specific memory T-cells using single HLA expressing cell lines as allogeneic targets.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 339-349 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) |
| Volume | 882 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |