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Oscillatory IL-2 stimulus reveals pertinent signaling timescales of T cell responsiveness

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  • Linda E Kippner
  • Melissa L Kemp

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Cell response to extracellular ligand is affected not only by ligand availability, but also by pre-existing cell-to-cell variability that enables a range of responses within a cell population. We developed a computational model that incorporates cell heterogeneity in order to investigate Jurkat T cell response to time dependent extracellular IL-2 stimulation. Our model predicted preferred timing of IL-2 oscillatory input for maximizing downstream intracellular STAT5 nuclear translocation. The modeled cytokine exposure was replicated experimentally through the use of a microfluidic platform that enabled the parallelized capture of dynamic single cell response to precisely delivered pulses of IL-2 stimulus. The in vitro results demonstrate that single cell response profiles vary with pulsatile IL-2 input at pre-equilibrium levels. These observations confirmed our model predictions that Jurkat cells have a preferred range of extracellular IL-2 fluctuations, in which downstream response is rapidly initiated. Further investigation into this filtering behavior could increase our understanding of how pre-existing cellular states within immune cell populations enable a systems response within a preferred range of ligand fluctuations, and whether the observed cytokine range corresponds to in vivo conditions.

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  • Linda E Kippner & Melissa L Kemp, 2018. "Oscillatory IL-2 stimulus reveals pertinent signaling timescales of T cell responsiveness," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(9), pages 1-20, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0203759
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203759
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