Imaging intracellular calcium levels in a T cell during antigen presentation

Negulescu PA, Krasieva TB, Khan A, Kerschbaum HH, Cahalan MD.
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California Irvine
 
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This video shows a T cell interacting with an antigen presenting cell (APC). In this experiment, MHC class II–restricted B cell (2PK3) hybridomas were pulsed with the antigen (10 ug/ml hen egg lysozyme [HEL]) for 3-12 h. Murine HEL-restricted CD41 T cells (1E5) were cultured for 4-12 h before being loaded for 1 hr at 25oC with 3 uM fura-PE3/AM. The HEL-pulsed 2PK3 B cells were settled onto coverglass with fura-loaded 1E5 T cells. The changes in intracellular calcium concentrations during antigen presentation were imaged on a Zeiss Axiovert 35 microscope equipped with a heated stage maintained at 35oC and a custom-designed beam-splitter.
 
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