with mouse anti-CD43 (Ly-48) microbeads, stained with 3 µM Cell Trace
Violet (Invitrogen, Green Island, NY) and activated with 25 µg/ml
soluble anti-IgM (Jackson Immunoresearch) and 1 µg/ml LPS (E.coli LPS,
Sigma Aldrich) for 24h h at 37°C in a CO2 incubator.
Simultaneously, naïve T cells from OT-II transgenic mice were purified
with a pan-T isolation kit (Miltenyi Biotech), stained with 3 µM CFSE,
and activated with 10 µg/ml anti-CD3 (clone 145-2C11, UCSF monoclonal Ab
core) and 2 µg/ml anti-CD28 (clone PV-1, UCSF monoclonal Ab core) for
24h. For the last 6 h of stimulation, 10 µg/ml OVA peptide
(323–339) (InvivoGen, San Diego, CA) was added to the B cells.
Thereafter, B and T cells were washed. 1×106 B cells and
1×106 T cells were mixed together in a total volume of
100 µl of FACS buffer and briefly centrifuged at 4 °C for 1 min
at 1500 rpm. B:T mixtures were then immediately fixed (time-0 min) or incubated
in a 37 °C water bath for the indicated time points (2, 5, 15, 30 and 60
min). Interacting B and T cells were co-cross-linked by the addition of 100
µl of 4% paraformaldehyde at the end of each time point. Samples
were acquired by flow cytometry.