2022年 新着論文 37 免疫系発生学分野から論文が発表されました

Large-Scale Isolation of Mouse Thymic Epithelial Cells.

Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2580:189-197. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2740-2_11.

Affiliations

  • 1Division of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan.
  • 2Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • 3Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. yousuke.takahama@nih.gov.

Abstract

The thymus is compartmentalized into the cortex and the medulla. Cortical and medullary thymic epithelial cells (TECs) characterize T cell-producing and T cell-selecting functions of cortical and medullary microenvironments in the thymus. Enzymatic digestion of the thymus and flow cytometric isolation of TECs and their subpopulations are useful for molecular and cellular characterization of TECs. However, the cellularity of cTECs and mTECs isolated from mouse thymus is limited. In this chapter, we describe the method for isolation of a large number of TECs using enlarged mouse thymus, which enables biochemical and proteomic analysis of TEC subpopulations.

Keywords: Cell sorting; Proteome; Thymic epithelial cell; cTEC; mTEC.