Tracking of CD4+ T cells during CNS autoimmunity

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Here, we use in vivo labeling at defined anatomical sites for "provance" tracking of immune cells across compartmental borders in the context of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Specifically, we labeled T cells in mesenteric or inguinal lymph nodes (LNs) of T cell conditional mitoDendra2 reporter mice via photoconversion at disease onset and re-isolated photoconverted T cells form the LNs, spleen and CNS two days later and we performed scRNA-seq on them. Our experimental system will help to better understand the phenotype and function of T cells migration into the CNS as a consequence of priming in a distinct peripheral immune compartment.