PMID- 37610279 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230824 LR - 20230824 IS - 2691-1299 (Electronic) IS - 2691-1299 (Linking) VI - 3 IP - 8 DP - 2023 Aug TI - Human Dendritic Cell Enrichment and Their Activation of T Cells. PG - e873 LID - 10.1002/cpz1.873 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) enable the immune system to mount and modulate precisely targeted responses to various threats across the organism by bridging innate and adaptive immunity. Historically, DCs have been classified as conventional (cDC) and plasmacytoid (pDC). More recently, cDCs were acknowledged as a heterogenous population composed of several subsets. Examining the functional diversity of cDCs in healthy homeostasis and pathology requires a robust experimental pipeline, beginning with an efficient enrichment protocol in preparation for cell sorting. Unfortunately, several commercial DC enrichment kits were developed before the discovery of the more recently described DC populations. Here, we detail two approaches to enrich human blood DCs or certain DC subsets and an in vitro protocol to examine DC stimulation of naive T cells. The methods employed here overcome many hurdles encountered while enriching human DC subsets. Basic Protocol 1 describes a method that will enrich pDC, Axl Siglec6-DC (AS-DC), cDC1, DC2, DC3, monocytes, and human HLA(+) cells by crosslinking unwanted cells to erythrocytes. Basic Protocol 2 describes the enrichment of pDC, AS-DC, cDC1, and DC2 but not DC3 via a highly efficient negative magnetic selection that is valuable in circumstances where DC3 is not required. Finally, Basic Protocol 3 describes a conventional protocol to perform a Mixed leucocyte Reaction (MLR) following the isolation of these DC subsets. These methods detail the advantages and pitfalls when isolating a heterogeneous population of cells. (c) 2023 The Authors. Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Human peripheral mononuclear phagocyte enrichment Basic Protocol 2: DC enrichment of pDC, cDC1, AS-DC, and DC2 but not DC3 Basic Protocol 3: Basic mixed lymphocyte reaction protocol with sorted human DC subsets. CI - (c) 2023 The Authors. Current Protocols published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. FAU - Lubin, Ruth AU - Lubin R AD - Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. FAU - Gvili, Rotem AU - Gvili R AD - Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. FAU - Hazan, Idit AU - Hazan I AD - Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. FAU - Yona, Simon AU - Yona S AD - Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Curr Protoc JT - Current protocols JID - 101773894 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *T-Lymphocytes MH - *Adaptive Immunity MH - Cell Movement MH - Cell Separation MH - Dendritic Cells EDAT- 2023/08/23 12:42 MHDA- 2023/08/24 06:42 CRDT- 2023/08/23 09:25 PHST- 2023/08/24 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/08/23 12:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/08/23 09:25 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/cpz1.873 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Curr Protoc. 2023 Aug;3(8):e873. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.873.