Name: assay of adhesion under shear stress for the study of t lymphocyte-adhesion molecule interactions
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The Rheumatology Research Foundation and the Hirschil Trust supported this work.

1. Plating the CHO-ICAM Cells
Note: The goal of this step is to plate the CHO-ICAM cells in the flow chambers for growth overnight with the goal of generating a confluent monolayer.
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	<li>Maintain CHO-ICAM cells in 10 cm tissue-culture treated culture dishes in 10 ml RPMI media supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% penicillin/streptomycin (CHO-ICAM complete culture media) at 37 &#176;C with 5% CO2.</li>
	<li>To collect cells, add 1 ml 0.5% trypsin-EDTA and incubate at room temperat...

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In order to properly analyze T cell adhesion, the stimulant to be included in the study must be considered when choosing an in vitro method. While there are several assays to study signals leading to LFA-1 activation and ICAM-1 binding all methods are not interchangeable. A static adhesion assay10 is best suited to study T cell-APC interactions; alternatively, the shear stress method detailed here is ideal to model T cell-epithelial cell interactions. In vivo, as chemokines are presented alon...

T lymphocyte adhesion mediates a number of distinct processes in a healthy immune system,3 playing critical roles in T cell trafficking and antigen presentation. Whether during immune surveillance or an active immune response these two broad roles for adhesion are critical.4 The physiological signaling events of T cell-endothelial cell interactions are distinct from T cell-antigen presenting cell (APC) interactions, and therefore require distinct methods of study to best understand the signaling cascades involved. The firm adhesion of a T cell to a blood vessel wall during lymphocyte extravasation requires rapid and dynamic integrin activation. The tight interaction between an active state integrin and adhesion molecules along the endothelium leads to adhesion resistant to the flow of blood, allowing T cells to crawl along the surface in search of an area permissive to cell passage.5 The crawling of a T cell bi-directionally along a blood vessel wall is reliant upon polarized adhesion, with a distinct adhesive front end of the T cell.6 Most importantly, firm adhesion and transmigration require resistance to the shear force generated by circulating blood flow.
When designing experiments to study lymphocyte adhesion, attention should be paid to the specific stimulus of interest. While integrin activation is a common and critical component of all forms of T cell adhesion, the cascades of activation are likely to be unique downstream of individual receptors and co-receptors. Likewise, integrin and adhesion molecule pairs function in specialized microenvironments and on specific subpopulations. In this way, these pairs may be regulated quite differently. The model presented here is ideal for the study of signaling cascades leading to integrin activation taking place under shear stress conditions.7 These interactions cannot be adequately understood in a static adhesion system due to the impact these forces have been shown to have directly on T cell behavior.8 Though presented here with T cells and CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cells engineered to express human ICAM-1 (CHO-ICAM cells) the system can easily be modified to study different leukocyte populations or adhesion molecules.
This assay provides a method to quantify T cell adhesiveness and integrin activation using shear stress, providing a model for the firm adhesion stage of leukocyte extravasation. Through the use of CHO-ICAM cells the affinity of LFA-1 for its ligand in live cells can be examined in real time in response to various stimuli of interest. This technique requires easily obtained, commercially available micro-flow chambers in combination with a syringe pump, greatly simplifying the equipment necessary to model blood flow and shear stress as compared to other models.9 Another major advantage of this assay is that specific signaling cascades and the resulting activation state of individual integrins can be cleanly studied through the use of engineered CHO cells expressing human adhesion molecules of interest. Additionally, the combination of quantitative data with live cell imaging is a significant advantage of this method. Overall, while a number of assays of static T cell adhesion have been described that nicely model T cell-APC interactions, these models are insufficient in capturing the dynamic process of T cell-epithelial adhesion. For this reason, when choosing an adhesion assay the stimulus in question must be considered.

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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;width:315px;">T cell samples (cell line or primary)</td>
			<td style="width:269px;">ATCC</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">TIB-152</td>
			<td style="width:248px;">Peripheral human T cells</td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CHO-ICAM-1 cells</td>
			<td>ATCC</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">CRL-2093</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">&#181;-Slide VI 0.4 ibiTreat</td>
			<td>ibidi</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">80606</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">500 ml glass bottle</td>
			<td>Fisher</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">FB800500</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">250 ml glass bottle</td>
			<td>Fisher</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">FB800250</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Silicone tubing 0.8 mm</td>
			<td>ibidi</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">10841</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Confocal microscope with incubator chamber</td>
			<td>Ziess</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">700</td>
			<td>Any wide field fluorescent microscope</td>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Syringe pump</td>
			<td>New Era Pump Systems</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">NE-300</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">60 ml syringe</td>
			<td>BD</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">309653</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">CFSE</td>
			<td>eBioscience</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">65-0850</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">SDF-1&#945;</td>
			<td>R&#38;D</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">350-NS-010/CF</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">RPMI</td>
			<td>Lonza</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">12-702F/12</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">PBS&#160;</td>
			<td>Lonza</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">17-516F</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Microcentrifuge</td>
			<td>Eppendorf&#160;</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">5424</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">D-Glucose</td>
			<td>Sigma Aldrich</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">G8270&#160;</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">PMA</td>
			<td>Sigma Aldrich</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">16561-29-8</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Volocity software</td>
			<td style="width:269px;">Perkin Elmer</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">Version 6.2.1</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">ImageJ software</td>
			<td style="width:269px;">NIH</td>
			<td style="width:119px;">Version 1.48V</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Tissue-culture treated culture dishes</td>
			<td>Falcon</td>
			<td>353003</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Trypsin-EDTA (0.25%) Phenol Red</td>
			<td>Gibco</td>
			<td>25200114</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Heat Inactivated FBS</td>
			<td>Denville</td>
			<td>FB5001-H</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
		<tr height="20">
			<td height="20" style="height:20px;">Penicillin/Streptomycin</td>
			<td>Fisher</td>
			<td>BP295950</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
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assay of adhesion under shear stress for the study of t lymphocyte-adhesion molecule interactions

Overall, T cell adhesion is a critical component of function, contributing to the distinct processes of cellular recruitment to sites of inflammation and interaction with antigen presenting cells (APC) in the formation of immunological synapses. These two contexts of T cell adhesion differ in that T cell-APC interactions can be considered static, while T cell-blood vessel interactions are challenged by the shear stress generated by circulation itself. T cell-APC interactions are classified as static in that the two cellular partners are static relative to each other. Usually, this interaction occurs within the lymph nodes. As a T cell interacts with the blood vessel wall, the cells arrest and must resist the generated shear stress.1,2 These differences highlight the need to better understand static adhesion and adhesion under flow conditions as two distinct regulatory processes. The regulation of T cell adhesion can be most succinctly described as controlling the affinity state of integrin molecules expressed on the cell surface, and thereby regulating the interaction of integrins with the adhesion molecule ligands expressed on the surface of the interacting cell. Our current understanding of the regulation of integrin affinity states comes from often simplistic in vitro model systems. The assay of adhesion using flow conditions described here allows for the visualization and accurate quantification of T cell-epithelial cell interactions in real time following a stimulus. An adhesion under flow assay can be applied to studies of adhesion signaling within T cells following treatment with inhibitory or stimulatory substances. Additionally, this assay can be expanded beyond T cell signaling to any adhesive leukocyte population and any integrin-adhesion molecule pair.

Representative results are shown from the flow adhesion assay using Jurkat and primary human CD3+ T cells, as indicated, stimulated with SDF-1&#945;. The negative controls in all shown experiments are unstimulated cells. A threshold basal percent adhesion of unstimulated cells is between 5 - 10%; base adhesion notably above this range indicates a problematic experiment and suggests the start population of T cells were nonspecifically pre-activated in preparation. Fold increase ...

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Assay of Adhesion Under Shear Stress for the Study of T Lymphocyte-Adhesion Molecule Interactions

This flow adhesion assay provides a simple, high impact model of T cell-epithelial cell interactions. A syringe pump is used to generate shear stress, and confocal microscopy captures images for quantification. The goal of these studies is to effectively quantify T cell adhesion using flow conditions.

Overall, T cell adhesion is a critical component of function, contributing to the distinct processes of cellular recruitment to sites of inflammation and ...

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