MoDC were obtained from CD14
+ human monocytes purified from blood of healthy subjects as previously described.
30 (link) MoDCs were seeded into round-bottom, 96-well culture plates at a density of 10
5 cells/well in complete RPMI medium without penicillin/streptomycin and infected with 10
7 CFU/mL of AIEC-LF82 or
E. coli Nissle 1917 strain alone [MOI 10:1 bacteria per phagocytic cell]. Following 1 h of phagocytosis,
gentamicin [20 ug/mL, Sigma-Aldrich, Darmstadt, Germany] was added to kill extracellular bacteria. Subsequently, infected MoDC were washed and maintained in RPMI supplemented with
gentamicin [2 ug/mL] for additional 22 h. The levels of
IL-1β [BioLegend],
IL-12p70 [BioLegend],
IL-23p19 [R&D Systems],
IL-6 [ImmunoTools],
IP-10 [R&D Systems], and
RANTES [R&D Systems] in supernatants of infected MoDC were analysed after 24 h by ELISA. The ELISA plates were read on a microplate reader [SAFAS MP96], and data were analysed with
Prism software [version 7; GraphPad Software, La Jolla, CA].
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