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Manasvi Patwardhan

Has anyone found double positive TCRb and TCRgd immune cells?

David A Kelly  Follow

Dear Abbas,
TCRgd and TCRab are separate populations, so what you observed was likely an artifact. This could be an interference generated by the anti-CD3 antibodies as these Abs may recognize close epitopes with the TCRgd. BD recommend aTCRgd clone 11F2 instead of clone B1 for double staining with aCD3 (it worked well in our hands with the 11F2, no more double positive populations). 
Good luck,
Mohamed

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Donnie McNeil  Follow

In some clinical situations I also observed those cells.

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Barry Austern  Follow

Dear Abbas,
TCRgd and TCRab are separate populations, so what you observed was likely an artifact. This could be an interference generated by the anti-CD3 antibodies as these Abs may recognize close epitopes with the TCRgd. BD recommend aTCRgd clone 11F2 instead of clone B1 for double staining with aCD3 (it worked well in our hands with the 11F2, no more double positive populations). 
Good luck,
Mohamed

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Allan Nicholas  Follow

i have proper gating strategy, no doublets/live dead staining. That paper seemed interesting, let me have a look. thanks Gerhard

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Catherine Salierno  Follow

REcently such cells have been found in fetal skin (I think in JEM

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Chris Mansker  Follow

Although, I agree that an artifact is the most likely explanation (especially with cells derived after extensive purification/digestion, which require careful gating - you have live/dead discrimination, dumb channels etc?), one might add that some weird ab/gd- chimeric TCRs do exist. The most recent publication I am aware of e.g. is PMID: 25452463.

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Dawn Parker  Follow

I see all 3 subpopulations, separate TCRab, separate TCRgd and common part. Proportions are different, and it is only in some patients...

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Charlie Perrin  Follow

@Ewa: do you see separate gamma delta T cells as well or all are just double positives alpha, beta, gamma, delta?

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Bill Walker  Follow

this is exciting, i am going to run the flow one more time to see this population.

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