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The expression of Foxp3 in Treg cells depends on the stability of transcription factors that are directly linked to the molecular interplay between Stat5a and cyclin-dependent kinase CDK8\/19. In this study, dendritic cells obtained from C57BL\/6 male mice were co-cultured with CD4+ splenocytes obtained from Balb\/c male mice to obtain alloantigen-specific CD4+ T cells. Next, these alloantigen-specific CD4+ T cells were cultured with the addition of the CDK8\/19 inhibitor AS2863619 compound, TGF-\u03b21, and IL-2 to induce their transdifferentiation into alloantigen-specific CD4+ Foxp3+ Treg cells. The efficacy of this cocktail in promoting the transdifferentiation of activated CD4+ lymphocytes into alloantigen-specific Treg cells (ag-Tregs) was further evaluated using Nanostring gene expression profiling, flow cytometry, ELISA, and in vivo migration assays. 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