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. 2022 Nov 18;11:e82094. doi: 10.7554/eLife.82094

Figure 8. Perturbing DAG signalling affects centrosomal motility and phagocytosis.

(A) Schematic showing the effect of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) and pan-inhibitor of PLC (PLCi) on DAG-mediated signalling. (B) Distance of the centrosome from the cell centre in microglia after 1% DMSO (N = 4, n = 26), 2.5 μM PMA (N = 3, n = 17) or 1 μM U73122 (N = 4, n = 29) treatment. (C) Probability map of the radial location of the centrosome, relative to the cell centre, after DMSO, PMA, or PLCi treatment. (D) A colour-coded overlay of a 10 min time lapse of a representative microglia (Tg(mpeg1:Gal4; UAS:lyn-tagRFPt)) treated with 2.5 μM PMA, to show branch dynamics. (E, F) Phagocytic attempts by microglia treated with 1% DMSO (white), 2.5 μM PMA (light grey) or 1 μM U73122 (dark grey). Plots show (E) successful and (F) total phagocytic attempts (*p<0.05, ****p<0.0001). (G) Tracks of the centrosome relative to successful phagocytic events, after DMSO, PMA, or PLCi treatment. Histograms summarize the position of the centrosome at the time of phagosome formation. (H) Centrosome distance from cell centre at the time of successful or aborted phagocytic attempts, after DMSO, PMA, or PLCi treatment (*p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001, ****p<0.0001). Violin and boxplots depict mean and 1.5x interquartile range. Groups were compared using an unpaired, nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis with Bonferroni correction. N refers to the number of zebrafish and n to the total number of microglia analysed.

Figure 8.

Figure 8—figure supplement 1. The radius of microglia cell soma.

Figure 8—figure supplement 1.

Left: schematic of how the radius of a microglia soma was determined. Right: a boxplot showing the radius of individual microglia treated with DMSO (N = 2, 7–10 microglia analysed per fish), Pan-inhibitor of PLC (PLCi) (N = 2, 5–8 microglia analysed per fish) or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) (N = 2, 5–8 microglia analysed per fish). Boxplots depict the mean +/- min and max values. N refers to the number of zebrafish analysed.
Figure 8—figure supplement 1—source data 1. Related to Figure 8—figure supplement 1.