We adoptively transferred 106 Teffs, 106 CD4s and either no Tregs or 105 Tregs (WT, CXCR3−/− or CCR6−/− Tregs) into 8-12-week-old Rag−/− hosts infected i.p. with 106 PFU of rVV-hPMEL on the same day of adoptive transfer. Hosts were irradiated with 500 rads 1 day before transfer. In competitive Rag−/− vitiligo models, vitiligo was induced by adoptive transfer of 106 Thy1.1+ Teffs, 106 CD45.1+ CD4+ T cells, and 5.0×104 Thy1.1+Thy1.2+ WT and 5.0×104 Thy1.2+ KO Tregs (CXCR3−/− or CCR6−/−) into 8-12-week-old Rag−/− hosts irradiated with 500 rads 1 day before transfer, and hosts were infected i.p. with 106 PFU of rVV-hPMEL on the same day of adoptive transfer. Teffs were isolated using a Miltenyi Biotec CD8 isolation kits. Treg-depleted CD4+ T cells were isolated from the spleens of C57BL/6J or CD45.1 mice through negative selection using Miltenyi Biotec CD4+CD25+ isolation kits (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany). Tregs were isolated from the spleens of C57BL/6J mice, CXCR3−/− mice, or CCR6−/− mice through positive selection using Miltenyi Biotec CD4+CD25+ isolation kits.
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