Microfluidics sorting enables the isolation of an intact cellular pair complex of CD8⁺ T cells and antigen-presenting cells in a cognate antigen recognition-dependent manner

• Soichiro Kuwabara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soichiro Kuwabara, Yoshihiko Tanimoto, Mie Okutani

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine Dynamics Project, BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yoshihiko Tanimoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soichiro Kuwabara, Yoshihiko Tanimoto, Mie Okutani

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine Dynamics Project, BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-1331

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• Mie Okutani ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Soichiro Kuwabara, Yoshihiko Tanimoto, Mie Okutani

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine Dynamics Project, BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Meng Jie,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Cellular Immunology, RIMD, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yasunari Haseda,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccine Dynamics Project, BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Yumi Kinugasa-Katayama,

  Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cellular Immunology, RIMD, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

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• Taiki Aoshi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: aoshi@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Cellular Immunology, RIMD, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1607-0639

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