RNA-seq of human peripheral blood B helper T-cell subsets

Human T-cells that express CXCR5 and/or CCR6 provide help to naive B-cells for IgG production. To understand the molecular pathways that are shared or unique to individual B helper T-cell subsets in human peripheral blood, CD4+IL-7R+CD25-/lo helper T-cells were purified according to the expression of CXCR5, CCR6, CXCR3, CD161 and CCR5 as follows: 1) TFH17(CD161-): CXCR5+CXCR6+CXCR3-CD161- 2) Th17: CXCR5-CCR6+CXCR3-, CD161+ or CCR5+ 3) CCR6”SP”: CXCR5-CCR6+CXCR3-CD161-CCR5- RNA-seq was performed with FACS-purified T-cell subsets from 3 healthy individuals.