Protein Translation Activity: A New Measure of Host Immune Cell Activation

  • Seedhom M
  • Hickman H
  • Wei J
  • et al.
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Abstract

We describe the in vivo ribopuromycylation (RPM) method, which uses a puromycin-specific Ab to fluorescently label ribosome-bound puromycylated nascent chains, enabling measurement of translational activity via immunohistochemistry or flow cytometry. Tissue staining provides a unique view of virus-induced activation of adaptive, innate, and stromal immune cells. RPM flow precisely quantitates virus-induced activation of lymphocytes and innate immune cells, and it provides a unique measure of immune cell deactivation and quiescence. Using RPM we find that high endothelial cells in draining lymph nodes rapidly increase translation in the first day of vaccinia virus infection. We also find a population of constitutively activated splenic T cells in naive mice and further that most bone marrow T cells activate 3 d after vaccinia virus infection. Bone marrow T cell activation is nonspecific, IL-12–dependent, and induces innate memory T cell phenotypic markers. Thus, RPM measures translational activity to uniquely identify cell populations that participate in the immune response to pathogens, other foreign substances, and autoantigens.

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Seedhom, M. O., Hickman, H. D., Wei, J., David, A., & Yewdell, J. W. (2016). Protein Translation Activity: A New Measure of Host Immune Cell Activation. The Journal of Immunology, 197(4), 1498–1506. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1600088

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