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Alden S Estep
  • Fly and Mosquito Research Unit, Center for Medical, Agricultural & Veterinary Entomology, Agricultura Research Service, USDA, Gainesville, USA
Efficient Production of Functional Human NKT Cells from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells − Reprogramming of Human Vα24+iNKT Cells
Antigen-specific T cell-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have been shown to re-differentiate into functional T cells and thus provide a potential source of T cells that could be useful for cancer immunotherapy. Human Vα24+ invariant natural killer T (Vα24+iNKT) cells are subset of T cells that are characterized by the expression of an invariant Vα24-Jα18 paired with Vβ11, that recognize glycolipids, such as α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer), presented by the MHC class I-like molecule CD1d. Vα24+iNKT cells capable of producing IFN-γ are reported to augment anti-tumor responses, which affects both NK cells and CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes to eliminate MHC- and MHC+ tumor cells, respectively. Here we describe a robust protocol to reprogram human Vα24+iNKT cells into iPSC, and then to re-differentiate them into Vα24+iNKT cells (iPS-Vα24+iNKT). We further provide a protocol to measure the activity of iPS-Vα24+iNKT cells.
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