Efficient depletion of chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells using serial rounds of immunomagnetic depletion

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• 作者：Robert Weinkove ; Collin R. Brooks ; John M. Carter ; Ian F. Hermans ; Franca Ronchese
• 关键词：Chronic lymphocytic leukemia ; Immunomagnetic cell separation ; B-cells ; B cell antigen CD19
• 刊名：Journal of Immunological Methods
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：31 October, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：396
• 期：1-2
• 页码：152-156
• 全文大小：411 K

文摘

Functional studies of cellular immunity in patients with leukemia often require separation of leukemic cells from other peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). This can pose a challenge when the number of leukemic cells is very high, such as in untreated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We found that when leukemia cell frequency was very high, anti-CD19 coated immunomagnetic beads did not thoroughly deplete B cells when used according to manufacturer's instructions. In this study, we depleted leukemic B cells using a modified protocol comprising serial rounds of depletion using immunomagnetic beads at reduced bead to cell ratios. This resulted in more effective B cell depletion with the use of fewer immunomagnetic beads, and without affecting viability or yield of non-B cells. CD19 ? PBMC subsets were retained, and serial depletion rounds did not activate T cells and monocytes. The positively isolated CLL cells were of high purity and were available for downstream analysis. This is a convenient and cost-effective method to enable in vitro analysis of immunocompetent cells from patients with leukemia.