Table 3.
Burkholderia cenocepacia and Ubiquitin Staining for High-Content Imaging
Step | Parameter | Value | Description |
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1 | Differentiation | 48 h | Human THP1 monocytes were differentiated to macrophages by treating with 50 ng/mL PMA and grown in RPMI media with 10% heat-inactivated FBS |
2 | Rapamycin treatment | 50 μg/mL | If required for experimental protocol, treat cells with rapamycin for 2 h before infection |
3 | Infect cells | 1 h | Burkholderia cenocepacia J2315 was added to cells in fresh media (no rapamycin) at an MOI of 1 (5 × 105 bacteria/mL) |
4 | Combination antibiotic treatment | 2 h | Infected media was aspirated and replaced with media treated with 250 μg/mL gentamicin and 500 μg/mL ceftazidime |
5 | Media replacement | 3–21 h | Antibiotic media was replaced with nonantibiotic RPMI for the remainder of the time course |
6 | Fixation | 3×, 10 min | Cells were washed thrice in PBS and fixed with 4% PFA |
7 | Permeabilize cells | 10 min | Cells were washed once in PBS and permeabilized with Triton X-100 0.1% |
8 | Block cells | 1 h | Cells were washed twice in PBS and blocked in 5% BSA-PBS |
9 | Primary and secondary antibody staining; nuclear staining | As described in Table 1, steps 8–14 |
FBS, fetal bovine serum; PMA, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate; MOI, multiplicity of infection.