Calu-3 cells were incubated in the presence and/or absence of CHI3L1 (250 ng/ml) in the presence or of kasugamycin (250 ng/ml) or its vehicle control. (A) Pseudoviruses with delta S proteins were added, and ACE2 and GFP viral infection were evaluated using double-labeled immunocytochemistry (ICC). DAPI (blue) was used to evaluate nuclei, red label was used to evaluate ACE2, and the pseudoviruses contained GFP. (B, C) The quantification of ACE2 can be seen in panel (B), and the quantification of GFP is illustrated in panel (C). These evaluations were done using fluorescent microscopy (×20 of original magnification). In these quantifications, five randomly selected fields were evaluated. The values in panels (B, C) are the mean ± SEM of the noted five evaluations. *p<0.05, **p<0.01; ***p<0.001; ns, not significant (one-way ANOVA with multiple comparisons). Scale bar:10 μm (applies to all subpanels in A).
Figure 6—source data 1. Composite images of immunocytotochemical evaluation of delta pseudovirus infection of Calu-3 cells.