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Chapter 4<br />

derived dendritic cells (BMDCs) argue aga<strong>in</strong>st a role <strong>of</strong> <strong>FAT10</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> death <strong>of</strong> DCs,<br />

as BMDCs derived from <strong>FAT10</strong>-deficient as well as wild-type mice displayed no<br />

differences <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> rate <strong>of</strong> maturation-<strong>in</strong>duced apoptosis (data not shown). How-<br />

ever, as BMDCs constitute a highly artificial system, <strong>the</strong>se experiments will need<br />

to be repeated with spleenic DCs for a def<strong>in</strong>ite answer. In addition, spleenic T cells<br />

could be assayed for differences <strong>in</strong> apoptosis after bulk stimulation through recep-<br />

tor cross-l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g with anti-CD3 <strong>and</strong> anti-CD28 antibodies <strong>and</strong> subsequent restim-<br />

ulation with ei<strong>the</strong>r anti-CD3 antibodies alone, treatment with PMA/ionomyc<strong>in</strong> or<br />

FasL to <strong>in</strong>duce ACID; or <strong>the</strong>y could be cultivated <strong>in</strong> cytok<strong>in</strong>e-free medium to <strong>in</strong>-<br />

duce ACAD.<br />

Materials <strong>and</strong> Methods<br />

Mice. <strong>FAT10</strong> gene-targeted mice were generated as previously described (Canaan<br />

et al., 2006) <strong>and</strong> were backcrossed on <strong>the</strong> C57BL/6 background until <strong>the</strong> 10 th gen-<br />

eration was obta<strong>in</strong>ed. Genotyp<strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> mice was performed as described previously,<br />

except for an alternative set <strong>of</strong> primers which was used to amplify <strong>the</strong> neomyc<strong>in</strong><br />

gene: NeoF2 (5’-TATCGCCTTCTTGACGAGTTC-3’) <strong>and</strong> NeoR2 (5’-CATCAGGTG<br />

GAGTCTCTCTC-3’). C57BL/6 mice (H-2 b ) mice were obta<strong>in</strong>ed orig<strong>in</strong>ally from<br />

Charles River Laboratories. Mice were kept <strong>in</strong> a specific pathogen-free facility<br />

<strong>and</strong> used at 6 - 10 weeks <strong>of</strong> age. Animal experiments were approved by <strong>the</strong><br />

Regierungspräsidium Freiburg.<br />

Virus. LCMV-WE was obta<strong>in</strong>ed orig<strong>in</strong>ally from F. Lehmann-Grube (Hamburg,<br />

Germany) <strong>and</strong> propagated <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> fibroblast l<strong>in</strong>e L929. Mice were <strong>in</strong>fected with a<br />

low dose <strong>of</strong> 200 pfu <strong>of</strong> LCMV-WE i.v., <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> specific CTL response was analyzed<br />

at days 7, 14 <strong>and</strong> 20 post <strong>in</strong>fection.<br />

Intracellular sta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g (ICS) for IFN-γ. Splenocytes (2 × 10 6 ) were <strong>in</strong>cubated <strong>in</strong><br />

round-bottom 96-well plates with 10 -7 M <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> specific peptide <strong>in</strong> 100 µl medium<br />

conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g 10 µg/ml brefeld<strong>in</strong> A for 5 h at 37°C. The sta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, fixation, <strong>and</strong> per-<br />

meabilization <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> cells were performed exactly as previously described (Basler<br />

et al., 2004). Briefly, cells were first sta<strong>in</strong>ed with an anti-CD8-Tri-color conjugate<br />

(Caltag) at 4°C followed by fixation <strong>in</strong> 4% paraformaldehyde. Cells were <strong>the</strong>n<br />

permeabilized <strong>in</strong> 0.1% sapon<strong>in</strong>, sta<strong>in</strong>ed with an anti-IFN-γ-FITC conjugate (BD<br />

Biosciences) <strong>and</strong> analyzed <strong>in</strong> a FACScan flow cytometer.<br />

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