Fig. 6.
Effect of Spi-B on T and pDC development in vivo.
CD34+CD38− fetal liver cells were transduced with control-IRES-ΔNGFR and Spi-B-IRES-GFP. After transduction the cells were mixed 1:1 and in total 1 × 106 cells were injected into the thymus transplanted subcutaneously 8 weeks prior to injection of the transduced cells. Two weeks later the mice were killed, the thymus was removed, and single-cell suspensions were made by gently cutting the thymus and pressing the fragments through a stainless sieve. The cells were stained with antibodies against the NGFR, CD123, CD4, CD8, CD45RA, BDCA2, and HLA-DR. We excluded the cells expressing extremely high levels of CD4 and CD123 (CD4+CD123+ cells [8%]) because they may represent an artifact.