Jurkat 76 was transduced with CD8α and CD8β cDNAs to generate Jurkat 76/CD8 as reported previously18 (link). Jurkat 76 or Jurkat 76/CD8 transfectants were further transduced with individual TCRβ genes along with SIG35α, and the transfectants were purified using anti-CD3 Microbeads (Miltenyi Biotec). K562-based artificial antigen-presenting cells (aAPC) stably express mutated HLA–A2 in conjunction with CD80 and CD8323 (link)26 (link). The mutated HLA–A2 molecules bear two amino acid substitutions at positions 227 and 228 that abrogate the interaction with CD857 (link). aAPC was engineered to constitutively secrete IL-21 to enable T cell expansion26 (link)58 (link). PG13-based packaging cells were generated by first transfecting Phoenix Eco cells with 20 μg of DNA for each construct using the TransIT-293 reagent (Mirus Bio, Madison, WI). PG13 cells were then transduced with supernatant from Phoenix Eco cells. PG13-derived retrovirus supernatant was utilized to transduce TCR genes into Jurkat 76, Jurkat 76/CD8, and human primary T cells as reported previously18 (link). A retroviral vector encoding ΔNGFR alone was employed as a control vector.
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