MicroArray time course transcriptional profiling of Human CD4+ T Cell activation across 20 donors.
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ABSTRACT: CD4+ T cells are at the centre of the adaptive immune system and can differentiate into distinct states that maintain self-tolerance and guide specific humoral and cellular responses to infection. Perturbation of CD4+ T cell activation is associated with many human diseases, including autoimmunity, therefore characterising the transcriptional programs underlying this process is key to the development of future therapeutic interventions. To assess the gene expression on CD4+ T cells, we recruited 20 healthy volunteers from the Cambridge BioResource. Total CD4+ T cells were isolated from whole blood within 2 hours of venepuncture. To assess the transcriptional variation in response to TCR stimulation, 1 million CD4+ T cells were cultured in U-bottom 96-well plates in the presence or absence of human T activator CD3/CD28 beads. Cells were harvested at 2 , 4, 6 or 21 hours post-stimulation, or after 0, 6 or 21 hours in the absence of stimulation. Three samples from the 6 hour unstimulated timepoint were omitted from the study due to insufficient cell numbers, and a further four samples were dropped after quality control, resulting in a total of 133 samples that were included in the final analysis.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Oliver Burren
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-4832 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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