The African green monkey kidney cell line Vero 10–87 was obtained from WHO (world health organization, Geneva, Switzerland). The Jurkat cell line (JE6.1) and the mouse thymoma cell line BW5147 were derived from in house stocks and cultured in RPMI1640 supplemented with 10% FBS, penicillin (100 U/mL) and streptomycin (100 μg/mL) (from Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO). For transfection, HEK293T cells (kindly provided by A. Carmo, Porto, Portugal) were used. Mycoplasma contaminations were detected by using a recently described reporter system based on a human monocytic THP-1 cell line [31 (link)]. The following antibodies were purchased from Biolegend (San Diego, CA): 4-1BB (CD137)-PE (4B4-1), m4-1BB (CD137)-PE (17B5), 4-1BBL (CD137L)-PE (5F4), m4-1BBL (CD137L)-PE (TKS-1), CD14-APC (M5E2), CD4-BV421 (OKT4), CD8-PerCP (HIT8α), CD56-PE (5.1H11), CD56-BV510 (5.1H11), CD25-PeCy7 (M-A251). A DyLight-649-conjugated goat-anti-mouse IgG(H + L) antibody from Jackson ImmunoResearch (West Grove,PA) was used for anti-CD3 single chain fragment detection. The Strep-tag was detected by using the monoclonal mouse NWSHPQFEK-Tag (biotin) antibody (GeneScript, Leiden, The Netherlands) in conjunction with a Streptavidin-PE (Biolegend, San Diego, CA). The agonistic anti-human 4-1BB antibody urelumab (human, IgG4) was obtained from Creative Biolabs (Shirley, NY).
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