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Assessing the Innate Sensing of HIV-1 Infected CD4+ T Cells by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Using an Ex vivo Co-culture System.
JoVE Journal
Immunology and Infection
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JoVE Journal Immunology and Infection
Assessing the Innate Sensing of HIV-1 Infected CD4+ T Cells by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells Using an Ex vivo Co-culture System.
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08:11 min

September 01, 2015

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 01:24Preparation of (Primary or MT4 CD4+) Target T Cells and (PBMC or pDC) Sensing Cells
  • 02:56Infected CD4+ T Cell Co-culture with Sensing Cells
  • 04:02Measurement of Bioactive Type-I IFN Using HEK-Blue IFN-α/β Reporter Cells
  • 05:23Results: Characterization and Co-culture of Freshly Isolated PBMCs and Infected MT4 T Cells
  • 07:27Conclusion

Summary

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Unlike cell-free HIV-1 particles, infected CD4+ T cells are effectively sensed by plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs). This manuscript describes a method where peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) or isolated pDCs are co-cultured with HIV-1 infected T cells to evaluate innate sensing by pDCs as assessed by release of type-I IFN.

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