Technical Reference #615

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Dendritic Cell Maturation Triggers Retrograde Mhc Class Ii Transport From Lysosomes To The Plasma Membrane Amy Chow, Derek Toomre, Wendy Garrett & Ira Mellman, Yale University, Nature, 418, 993, (2002)
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Abstract:
Central to the initiation of immune responses is recognition of peptide antigen by T lymphocytes. The cell biology of dendritic cells makes them ideally suited for the essential process of antigen presentation1. Their life cycle includes several stages ch

Keywords:
peptide antigen, T lymphocytes, antigen presentation, major histocompatibility complex class II molecules (MHC II), endocytosis, green fluorescent protein (GFP)

Materials & Methods:
To label lysosomes, day 4–5 immature dendritic cells were…plated for 30min on poly-L-lysine pre-coated number 1.5 coverslips attached to 35-mm dishes (MatTek).

Microscopic Technique
Confocal Microscopy

Cell Type(s)
Dendritic