During the experimental set-up, CD3 antibody was included in the staining panel (BV510 BioLegend clone 17A2) and used for the gating of T cells. The results obtained with gating on CD3+ CD4+ CD8- were similar to those obtained with gating on CD4+ CD8-. Due to the limitation in the maximum number of colours that can be discriminated with the FACS Canto II, CD3 staining was omitted in subsequent stainings.
Dead cells were excluded using the fixable viability dye-eFluor 450 (eBioscience), and intracellular staining was performed using the fixation/ permeabilization buffer set from eBioscience. Flow cytometry measurements were performed on a FACS Canto II instrument (BD) and the data were analyzed with FlowJo software (Tree Star).