MDSCs were isolated from the spleen and tumor tissue from L-4F/Sc-4F treated mouse using
anti-mouse Ly-6G and Ly-6C particles-DM (BD Biosciences, USA). The purity of each cell population was > 99%. The immunocytes from spleen (splenocytes) from C57BL/6 mice were isolated. A total of 2×10
5/well splenocytes were stimulated with coated 6 µg/ml
anti-CD3 (BD Biosciences, USA) and 6 µg/ml soluble anti-CD28 mAbs (BD Biosciences, USA) for 3 d and co-cultured at a 4:1 ratio with sorted MDSCs in 96-well flat-bottom plates. After 3 d, the cells were stained with
anti-CD3-PerCP, anti-CD4-APC-H7, and anti-CD8-APC. Then the CD3
+CD4
+ and CD3
+CD8
+ lymphocytes was analyzed.
The culture supernatants were collected to detect the concentration of IFN-γ (interferon-γ) using an mouse IFN-γ ELISA assay kit (BD Biosciences, USA) and TNF-β using an mouse TNF-β ELISA assay kit (BioLegend, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Each experiment was performed in triplicate.
The culture medium consisted of RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with L-glutamine (2 mM), penicillin (100 U/ml), streptomycin (0.1 mg/ml), 2-ME (50 μ M), and 10% heat-inactivated FBS.
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