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Immunological Investigations
A Journal of Molecular and Cellular Immunology
Volume 30, 2001 - Issue 2
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IDENTIFICATION OF DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES IN HUMAN MEMORY (CD45RO+) CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTES

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Pages 87-101 | Published online: 31 May 2001
 

Abstract

The precise nature and development of the memory (CD45RO+) CD4+ T lymphocytes remain unknown. In this study, we analyzed differential gene expression of human memory CD4+ T lymphocytes in relation to their naïve counterparts. A suppression subtractive hybridization technique was used to isolate and clone differentially expressed genes in the memory subset with respect to the naïve subset. We screened approximately 300 clones by dot blot analysis and sequenced 23 differentially expressed clones. GenBank sequence homology search showed that these clones included genes for transcription factors, enzymes and immunomodulatory molecules. Differential expression of a subset of these genes was further confirmed by RT-PCR and densitometric analysis revealed that they were expressed five to eightfold more in memory than naive CD4+ T lymphocytes. Collectively, these results suggest that multiple genes with different functions contribute to the development of immunological memory in human T lymphocytes.

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