Research Article

Efficient Acquisition of Fully Human Antibody Genes against Self-Proteins by Sorting Single B Cells Stimulated with Vaccines Based on Nitrated T Helper Cell Epitopes

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Introduction of p-nitrophenylalanine allows Th epitopes to activate human naïve CD4+ T cells. (a) CFSE-labeled human naïve CD4+ T cells were cocultured with autologous DCs pulsed by various NitraTh-based vaccines for 7 days and analyzed by FACS. One of representative experiments was shown. (b) The results of (a) were analyzed. Data from three independent experiments. , , and compared with (b); ### compared with B-T.
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