Analysis of murine lamina propria TH17 cells

doi:10.1038/nprot.2008.205

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Analysis of murine lamina propria TH17 cells

https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2008.205

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Biological techniques

TH17

TH1

lamina propria

intestine

IL-17-expressing CD4+ cells (TH17 cells) constitute a considerable proportion of lymphocytes in the intestinal lamina propria (LP), even in healthy mice kept under specific pathogen free conditions. TH17 cells are rarely observed in the spleen, mesenteric lymph node, or Peyer’s patches. Germ-free mice or antibiotics (vancomycin and metronidazole)-treated mice show marked reductions in numbers of LP TH17 cells; thus, intestinal commensal bacteria provide a particular environment for the development of LP TH17 cells.

This protocol describes the procedure to isolate LP lymphocytes and to assay for IL-17 expression by intracellular cytokine staining.

Hank’s Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS)
RPMI1640 medium
PBS
EDTA
fetal bovine serum (FBS)
Bovine serum albumin (BSA)
collagenase type II (Invitrogen)
dispase (Invitrogen)
DNase I (Roche Diagnostics)
Fluorescently labelled anti-CD4, anti-IL-17, anti-anti-IFN-γ, anti-TCR-β (BD Biosciences)
Percoll (GE Healthcare)
Phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) (Sigma)
Calcium Ionophore A23187 (Sigma)
BD GolgiStop
BD Cytofix/Cytoperm

shaking water bath
Flow cytometer

Isolation of LP lymphocytes (see also ref. 1)

Open intestines longitudinally, and wash in PBS to remove faecal content.
Shake in HBSS containing 5 mM EDTA for 20 min at 37°C.
After removal of epithelial cells and fat tissue, cut the intestines into small pieces and incubate with RPMI1640 containing 4% FBS, 1 mg/ml collagenase type II, 1 mg/ml dispase and 40 μg/ml DNase I for 1 h at 37°C in a shaking water bath.
Wash the digested tissues with HBSS containing 5 mM EDTA, resuspend in 5 ml of 40% Percoll (GE Healthcare) and overly on 2.5 ml of 80% Percoll in a 15-ml Falcon tube.
Centrifuge the samples at 2,000 rpm for 20 min at room temperature.
Collect LP lymphocyte from the interface of the Percoll gradient and wash with PBS containing 0.5% BSA and 2 mM EDTA) or RPMI1640. The cells can be used immediately for further experiments.

Intracellular cytokine staining.

Incubate LP lymphocytes with 50 ng/ml PMA, 5 μM Calcium Ionophore A23187 and Golgistop in complete media at 37°C for 4 h.
Incubate the cells with a corresponding cocktail of fluorescently labeled antibodies, such as anti-CD4 and anti-TCR-β, for 20 min at 4°C.
Permeabilize the cells with Cytofix/Cytoperm solution for 20 min at 4°C.
Incubate cells with fluorescently labelled cytokine antibodies, e.g. anti-IL-17 and anti-IFN-γ, for 20 min at 4°C.
Wash cells with PBS containing 0.5% BSA and 2 mM EDTA buffer.
Analyze with Flow cytometer.

12 hrs

See attached Figure 1.

Ivanov, II et al. The orphan nuclear receptor RORgammat directs the differentiation program of proinflammatory IL-17+ T helper cells. Cell 126, 1121-33 (2006).

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