PMID- 23329502 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20130625 LR - 20170823 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 960 DP - 2013 TI - Preparing antigens suitable for cross-presentation assays in vitro and in vivo. PG - 389-400 LID - 10.1007/978-1-62703-218-6_29 [doi] AB - Cross-presentation is defined as the ability of certain professional antigen-presenting cells to take up, process and present extracellular antigens on major histocompatibility class I (MHC-I) molecules to CD8+ T cells. The stimulation of naive cytotoxic CD8+ T cells by this process, termed cross-priming, is involved in many different responses, including those to tumors, pathogens, graft tissues, and self-antigens. Dendritic cells (DCs), a heterogeneous cell population, are endowed with the highest cross-priming capacity. Investigation of their cross-presentation capacities, important both for vaccination and for the induction of immune tolerance can be performed by in vivo and in vitro assays. In this chapter we describe the preparation of antigens that can be used to test cross-presentation via pinocytosis, receptor-mediated endocytosis, and phagocytosis. FAU - Saveanu, Loredana AU - Saveanu L AD - Faculte de medecine Rene Descartes, INSERM U1013 and Universite Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France. loredana.saveanu@inserm.fr. FAU - van Endert, Peter AU - van Endert P AD - Faculte de medecine Rene Descartes, INSERM U1013 and Universite Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Latex) RN - 0 (Receptors, Fc) RN - 9006-59-1 (Ovalbumin) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Apoptosis MH - *Cross-Priming MH - Dendritic Cells/cytology/immunology/metabolism MH - Latex/chemistry MH - Mice MH - Microspheres MH - Ovalbumin/chemistry/*immunology/*metabolism MH - Phagocytosis MH - Pinocytosis MH - Receptors, Fc/metabolism MH - Solubility MH - Yeasts/cytology EDAT- 2013/01/19 06:00 MHDA- 2013/06/26 06:00 CRDT- 2013/01/19 06:00 PHST- 2013/01/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/01/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/06/26 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-62703-218-6_29 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2013;960:389-400. doi: 10.1007/978-1-62703-218-6_29.