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BD® AbSeq Oligo Hamster Anti-Helios
Clone 22F6 (RUO)


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Preparation And Storage
Recommended Assay Procedures
Put all BD® AbSeq reagents to be pooled into a Latch Rack for 500 µL Tubes (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat. No. 4900). Arrange the tubes so that they can be easily uncapped and re-capped with an 8-Channel Screw Cap Tube Capper (Thermo Fisher Scientific Cat. No. 4105MAT) and the reagents aliquoted with a multi-channel pipette. BD® AbSeq tubes should be centrifuged for = 30 seconds at 400 × g to ensure removal of any content in the cap/tube threads prior to the first opening.
When using BD® AbSeq intracellular markers with the Single Cell 3' Sequencing Intracellular CITE-seq, cells must first be fixed and permeabilized using the BD Rhapsody™ Intracellular AbSeq Buffer Kit before the antibody-oligo can bind to the protein. Refer to the list of required companion products below and see BD Rhapsody™ System Single-Cell Labelling with BD® AbSeq Ab-Oligos for Intracellular CITE-seq (Doc ID: 23-24464) for the complete BD® AbSeq intracellular multiomics staining protocol. Contact your local Field Application Specialist (FAS) for additional guidance.
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Data Sheets
Companion Products






The 22F6 monoclonal antibody specifically binds to mouse and human Helios. Helios is a member of the Ikaros family of zinc-finger transcription factors, which play important roles in hematopoietic cell development and tumor suppression. Helios expression is restricted to the earliest stages of embryonic hematopoiesis, a variety of epithelial tissues and is notably increased in thymic-derived regulatory CD4+Foxp3+ T (Treg) cells. Its high expression levels in Treg cells are independent from Foxp3 and are believed to contribute, along with other transcription factors, to the phenotypic stability of natural regulatory T cells. Accordingly, it has been demonstrated that Helios directly stimulates Foxp3 transcription while it inhibits ll2 gene expression, contributing for the maintenance of cellular anergy. Helios is also differentially expressed during negative and positive selection in the thymus, marking CD4+ autoreactive cells for deletion. Helios may possibly play roles in T cell activation, since it is upregulated in Th2 and Tfh cells. Despite these roles in T cell development and function, Helios genetic ablation in mice revealed no significant abnormalities in Treg or other T cell subsets. This finding suggests that other Ikaros family members may play redundant roles.
Development References (10)
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Baine I, Basu S, Ames R, Sellers RS, Macian F. Helios induces epigenetic silencing of IL2 gene expression in regulatory T cells. J Immunol. 2013; 190(3):1008-1016. (Biology). View Reference
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Cai Q, Dierich A, Oulad-Abdelghani M, Chan S, Kastner P. Helios deficiency has minimal impact on T cell development and function. J Immunol. 183(4)(Biology). View Reference
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Daley SR, Hu DY, Goodnow CC. Helios marks strongly autoreactive CD4+ T cells in two major waves of thymic deletion distinguished by induction of PD-1 or NF-kappaB. J Exp Med. 2013; 210(2):269-285. (Biology). View Reference
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Fu W, Ergun A, Lu T, et al. A multiply redundant genetic switch 'locks in' the transcriptional signature of regulatory T cells. Nat Immunol. 2012; 13(10):972-980. (Biology). View Reference
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Georgopoulos K. Haematopoietic cell-fate decisions, chromatin regulation and ikaros. Nat Rev Immunol. 2002; 2(3):162-174. (Biology). View Reference
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Kelley CM, Ikeda T, Koipally J, et al. Helios, a novel dimerization partner of Ikaros expressed in the earliest hematopoietic progenitors. Curr Biol. 1998; 8(9):508-515. (Biology). View Reference
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Serre K, Benezech C, Desanti G, et al. Helios is associated with CD4 T cells differentiating to T helper 2 and follicular helper T cells in vivo independently of Foxp3 expression. PLoS ONE. 2011; 6(6):e20731. (Biology). View Reference
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Sugimoto N, Oida T, Hirota K, et al. Foxp3-dependent and -independent molecules specific for CD25+CD4+ natural regulatory T cells revealed by DNA microarray analysis. Int Immunol. 18(8)(Biology). View Reference
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Thornton AM, Korty PE, Tran DQ, et al. Expression of Helios, an Ikaros transcription factor family member, differentiates thymic-derived from peripherally induced Foxp3+ T regulatory cells. J Immunol. 2010; 184(7):3433-3441. (Immunogen: ELISA, Flow cytometry, Western blot). View Reference
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Yoshimatsu Y, Sujino T, Miyamoto K, et al. Aryl hydrocarbon receptor signals in epithelial cells govern the recruitment and location of Helios+ Tregs in the gut.. Cell Rep. 2022; 39(6):110773. (Clone-specific: Flow cytometry). View Reference
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