PBMC and SFMC were thawed and resuspended in PBS (0.5–1.0 × 106 living cells/tube). Surface staining of CD3-BV510 (clone OKT3, 1:400, Biolegend) and CD4-FITC (clone RPA-T4, 1:200, eBioscience) was performed for 25 min at 4 °C. Cells were then stimulated with 0, 1, 10 or 100 IU/ml human (h)IL-2 (Proleukin; Novartis) for 30 min at 37 °C, fixated and permeabilized by using buffers from the Transcription Factor Phospho Buffer Set (BD Biosciences). Intranuclear staining of FOXP3-eF450 (clone PCH101, 1:50), T-bet-eF660 (clone eBio4B10, 1:50; eBioscience), CD25-PE/CY7 (clone M-A251, 1:25) and pSTAT5-PE (clone pY695, 1:25; BD) was performed for 50 min at 4 °C. See Supplementary Fig. 1a and c for gating strategy of FOXP3+ Treg cells and non-Treg cells, and Supplementary Fig. 4h for the gating of pSTAT5. Data acquisition and analysis as above.
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