PMID- 37737984 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230925 LR - 20230926 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 2717 DP - 2024 TI - Coculture of Human Dendritic and T Cells for the Study of Specific T Cell-Mediated Responses Against Food Allergens. PG - 175-190 LID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-3453-0_11 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) connect innate and adaptive immunity by sampling, capturing, processing, and presenting the allergen to distinct subsets of CD4(+) T cells. In food allergy, this process leads to the generation of allergen-specific Th2 responses and the production of type 2 cytokines that ultimately induce the synthesis of IgE by allergen-specific B cells. In this chapter, we have described different protocols for the isolation of circulating DCs as well as the generation of DC-like cells derived from autologous peripheral monocytes and the human monocytic THP-1 cell line. Coculture of isolated/generated DCs with CD4(+) T cells obtained from PBMCs of allergic subjects allows the study of antigen-specific T cell immune responses against food allergens. Early responses upon allergen recognition can be determined by the upregulation of activation markers such as CD154 (CD40 ligand) and the detection of type 2 cytokines (IL-4, IL-5, IL-9, and IL-13). Delayed allergen-specific CD4(+) T cell responses induce the proliferation of these cells and the accumulation of type 2 cytokines in coculture supernatants that can be quantified by different approaches (ELISA, Ella(TM), and multiplex assays). Together, the protocols described in this chapter can be used to investigate the features of food proteins to induce food allergy, the influence of environmental factors to generate Th2-polarization, the function of DCs to generate differential immune responses in allergic versus tolerant individuals, and to assess the immunomodulating properties of potential therapeutic substances. CI - (c) 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Martinez-Blanco, Monica AU - Martinez-Blanco M AD - Division of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. AD - Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. FAU - Menchen-Martinez, David AU - Menchen-Martinez D AD - Instituto de Investigacion en Ciencias de la Alimentacion (CIAL, CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain. FAU - Camara, Carmen AU - Camara C AD - Department of Immunology, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain. FAU - Lopez-Fandino, Rosina AU - Lopez-Fandino R AD - Instituto de Investigacion en Ciencias de la Alimentacion (CIAL, CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain. FAU - Berin, M Cecilia AU - Berin MC AD - Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. FAU - Lozano-Ojalvo, Daniel AU - Lozano-Ojalvo D AD - Instituto de Investigacion en Ciencias de la Alimentacion (CIAL, CSIC-UAM), Madrid, Spain. daniel.lozano-ojalvo@mssm.edu. AD - Department of Dermatology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. daniel.lozano-ojalvo@mssm.edu. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 147205-72-9 (CD40 Ligand) RN - 0 (Allergens) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Coculture Techniques MH - *T-Lymphocytes MH - *Food Hypersensitivity MH - Cytokines MH - CD40 Ligand MH - Allergens OTO - NOTNLM OT - Allergen specific OT - Cytokine OT - Dendritic cells OT - Food allergy OT - In vitro OT - T cells EDAT- 2023/09/22 12:42 MHDA- 2023/09/25 06:42 CRDT- 2023/09/22 11:09 PHST- 2023/09/25 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/09/22 12:42 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/09/22 11:09 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-3453-0_11 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2024;2717:175-190. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3453-0_11.