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Isolation of CD4<sup>+</sup> T-cells and Analysis of Circulating T-follicular Helper (cTfh) Cell Subsets from Peripheral Blood Using 6-color Flow Cytometry

Aberrant T-follicular helper (Tfh) cell activity is detectable in autoimmune conditions and their presence is associated with clinical outcomes when the ...

University of Leicester

In vitro culture studies have shown that miR-363 is enriched in extracellular vesicles from chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells. We wondered whether miR-363 was detectable in plasma, which is an essential precondition for further studies to assess its usefulness as a biomarker. Using samples from two clinical trials: one enrolling patients with advanced disease and the other asymptomatic patients with early stage disease, we determined plasma miR-363 levels and secondly investigated the distribution of this miRNA between plasma and particle bound fractions in patients and normal subjects.

An increased fraction of circulating miR-363 and miR-16 is particle bound in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia as compared to normal subjects.

Abnormally sustained immune reactions drive B-cell proliferation in some cases of marginal zone lymphoma but the CD4 T-cell subsets, which are likely to contribute to the B-cell responses in the tumour microenvironment, are not well characterised and neither has the spatial distribution of the different subsets in involved lymph nodes been investigated.

PD1 cells associate with clusters of proliferating B-cells in marginal zone lymphoma.

Patients with peripheral T-cell lymphomas generally have poor clinical outcomes with conventional chemotherapy. Recent advances have demonstrated that a large subgroup of PTCL are derived from follicular helper (Tfh) T-cells. These cases show a characteristic pattern of gene expression, which includes high-level protein expression of interleukin-2-inducible kinase (ITK). ITK is a member of the TEC family of kinases and normally has essential functions in regulating T-cell receptor signalling and T-cell differentiation. Here we report a side-by-side comparison of four ITK inhibitors. We investigate effects on apoptosis, phosphorylation of signaling molecules, calcium flux and migration. In line with a specific mechanism of action ONO7790500 and BMS509744 did not inhibit MEK1/2 or AKT phosphorylation although other ITK inhibitors, ibrutinib and PF-06465469, did have this effect. Specific ITKi had modest effects on apoptosis alone but there was definite synergy with doxorubicin, pictilisib (PI3Ki) and idelalisib (PI3Kδi). ITKi repressed migration of Jurkat cells caused by CXCL12 and the CXCR4 antagonist, plerixafor enhanced this effect. Overall ITKi may have several mechanisms of action that will be therapeutically useful in PTCL including reduction in survival and perturbation of trafficking.

Simon D. Wagner

Leicester Cancer Research Centre and Ernest and Helen Scott Haematology Research Institute

University of Leicester

Isolation of CD4⁺ T-cells and Analysis of Circulating T-follicular Helper (cTfh) Cell Subsets from Peripheral Blood Using 6-color Flow Cytometry

Simon D. Wagner

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University of Leicester

Isolation of CD4+ T-cells and Analysis of Circulating T-follicular Helper (cTfh) Cell Subsets from Peripheral Blood Using 6-color Flow Cytometry

Leicester Cancer Research Centre and Ernest and Helen Scott Haematology Research Institute

Isolation of CD4⁺ T-cells and Analysis of Circulating T-follicular Helper (cTfh) Cell Subsets from Peripheral Blood Using 6-color Flow Cytometry