In order to approximate the IC50 (concentration of antibodies responsible for 50% of inhibition of GM-CSF-induced STAT5 phosphorylation), the patient plasmas were used at different dilutions (diluted in AB serum from 0.01 to 30%) with a constant concentration of GM-CSF for stimulation (10 ng/ml).
In order to assess the EC50 (concentration of GM-CSF responsible for 50% of STAT5 phosphorylation in the presence of antibodies), the volume of plasma was chosen to get a constant final concentration of antibodies in each tube at 10 MMAU (completed with AB serum); stimulation with GM-CSF varied from 10–1 to 104 ng/ml.
Data were collected using a BD LSR Fortessa (BD Biosciences), analyzed using FlowJo software (TreeStar), and graphed with Prism8 (GraphPad).