MAITs from PBMCs and tonsils were single cell sorted using the Aria II cell sorter (BD Biosciences) directly into One Step RT-PCR reaction mix (NEB) loaded in MicroAmp Optical 96-well reaction plates (Applied Biosystems). MAITs were defined as CD3+ Vα7.2+ MR1-Tetramer+ cells and sorted based on CD161 expression. Following reverse transcription and preamplification reaction, a series of three nested PCR’s were run using primers for TCR sequence and gene expression as described (43 (link)). Subsequent sequencing data analysis was performed as described (43 (link)).