Absolute Numbers of CD56+ NK Cells Upon Sequential Culture of Transduced CD34+CD38− FL Cells Upon S17 and Cytokines
FL Cells Transduced With . | % GFP+ Cells . | No. of Recovered GFP+ Cells Per Input of 10,000 GFP+ Cells . | ||
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Before Culture . | After Culture . | Total . | CD56+ Cells . | |
IRES-GFP | 12 | 13 | 43,000 | 10,400 |
Id3-IRES-GFP | 8 | 6 | 30,000 | 12,900 |
FL Cells Transduced With . | % GFP+ Cells . | No. of Recovered GFP+ Cells Per Input of 10,000 GFP+ Cells . | ||
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Before Culture . | After Culture . | Total . | CD56+ Cells . | |
IRES-GFP | 12 | 13 | 43,000 | 10,400 |
Id3-IRES-GFP | 8 | 6 | 30,000 | 12,900 |
Cells were harvested after coculture of transduced FL cells on a monolayer of S17 stroma and the percentage of GFP+ cells was determined to get the indicated percentage of GFP+cells before culture. The harvested cells were further cultured in a cytokine combination consisting of Flt-3L, IL-7, and IL-15. Two weeks later, cell suspensions were analyzed by flow cytometry for GFP expression (% GFP+ cells after culture) and cell surface expression of the CD56 antigen. The percentage of GFP+ cells and therefore the absolute numbers of the input were different. To allow for a meaningful comparison, we expressed the output numbers per input number of 10,000 cells.