Fifty milliliters of blood samples were taken from all study patients. Briefly, fresh PBMCs were obtained and rCD4+ T cells were purified by negative selection with EasySep™ Human Resting CD4+ T-Cell Isolation Kit (Stemcell Technologies, Vancouver, Canada), as described previously by our group [9 (link)]. The purity of CD4+CD25-CD69-HLA/DR-T cells was assessed by flow cytometry as >99%. Total RNA was extracted using AllPrep DNA/RNA Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) from both rCD4 T+ cells and rCD4 T- PBMCs, following manufacturer’s instructions. RNA was quantified with Nanodrop 1000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA).
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