Expanded Human Peripheral Blood NK Cells, Frozen

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78798
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Expanded Human Peripheral Blood NK Cells are NK cells enriched and expanded from human PBMCs using the NK Expansion Kit (BPS Bioscience 78927), a K562 feeder cell-based system for about 2 weeks, and cryopreserved. Human Peripheral Blood NK Cells are >90 % pure NK cells (CD3-CD56+ cells), as measured by flow cytometry analysis. They can be used in NK cytotoxicity assays or ADCC (antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity), after thaw and recovery in NK Cell Basal Medium for 24 hours or can be further expanded using the BPS Bioscience NK Expansion Kit.

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Vial contains 5 x 106 cells in 1 ml of CryoStor® CS10 (Stemcell Technologies #100-1061)
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NK Cell Basal Medium BPS Bioscience #82164
Growth-Arrested NK Feeder Cells BPS Bioscience #78712
Anti-NCAM1 Antibody, PE-Labeled BPS Bioscience #101673
Anti-CD3 Antibody, FITC-Labeled BPS Bioscience #102008
Human Interleukin-2 BPS Bioscience #90184
500 x CFSE BPS Bioscience #82177
1000 x 7-AAD BPS Bioscience #82178
K562 ATCC #CCL-243
eGFP/Firefly Luciferase K562 Cell Line BPS Bioscience #78911
eGFP/Firefly Luciferase RS4; 11 Cell Line BPS Bioscience #78926
Clear-bottom, white 96-well tissue culture-treated plate Corning #3610
U-bottomed 96-well plate Corning #3799
ONE-Step™ Luciferase Assay System BPS Bioscience #60690
Thaw Medium 2 BPS Bioscience #60184
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Mycoplasma Testing

The cells have been screened to confirm the absence of Mycoplasma species.

Background

NK (natural killer) cells are part of the innate immune system. They function in a histocompatibility complex-independent mode and derive from the hematopoietic lineage. They are the first line of defense against cancer. Expression of marker CD56 correlates with NK cell functionality: the CD56bright subset accounts for about 5% of the population and is less cytotoxic than the CD56dim subset.  Cytotoxicity can happen by the release of perforin and granzyme, while activation by KARs (killer activating receptors) leads to release of Fas Ligand, TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) and TNFα (tumor necrosis factor-alpha). In a suppressive tumor microenvironment, NK cells can become inhibited and unable to fight cancer cells. Several clinical trials have focused on using ex vivo generated NK cells alone or in combination with other approaches. NK cells can be generated ex vivo from peripheral blood, umbilical cord blood, iPS cells or immortalized NK cell lines. The ability to generate a number of pure cells high enough for human dosage often requires the use of growth factors such as IL-2 (interleukin 2) or IL-15, and feeder cells. The use of NK cells or CAR (chimeric antigen receptor)-NK cells is an expanding area holding great promise in cancer therapy.

References

Du N., et al., 2021 Cancers (Basel) 13 (16): 4129.