Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.007
Rosa Ana Lacalle, Raquel Blanco, Rebeca García-Lucena, Santos Mañes
{"title":"Generation of human and murine exhausted CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells in vitro.","authors":"Rosa Ana Lacalle, Raquel Blanco, Rebeca García-Lucena, Santos Mañes","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>T cell exhaustion is a state of dysfunction that can occur due to persistent exposure to antigens, such as in the tumor microenvironment. The progressive loss of effector functions in exhausted T cells can lead to resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive cell immunotherapies. Improving our understanding of the exhaustion process is thus crucial for optimizing the clinical outcomes of immunotherapy. A significant hurdle in this area is obtaining an adequate quantity of exhausted T cells. One solution could be the in vitro production of exhausted T cells by mimicking exhaustion-induced conditions. We present a simple, repeatable, flow cytometry-assisted method for generating exhausted CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells from both human and mouse sources. This flexible protocol works with various cell sources and activation methods. Our results confirm the production of dysfunctional CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells, akin to those in mouse tumor models and patient tumor samples. This methodology could help identify genes involved in the exhaustion process and serve as a platform for finding agents capable of altering, reversing, or accelerating this dysfunctional state. By using both mouse and human models, we increase the adaptability of the method, making it a powerful instrument for assessing potential substances with immunotherapeutic utility.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"191 ","pages":"93-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143008126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.010
Nicolas Delhez, Frank Aboubakar Nana, Camille Houbion, Alexandre Bayard, Annika Bruger, Christophe Vanhaver, Sven Brandau, Pierre van der Bruggen, Thibault Hirsch
{"title":"Deciphering neutrophil heterogeneity in human blood and tumors: Methods for isolating neutrophils and assessing their effect on T-cell proliferation.","authors":"Nicolas Delhez, Frank Aboubakar Nana, Camille Houbion, Alexandre Bayard, Annika Bruger, Christophe Vanhaver, Sven Brandau, Pierre van der Bruggen, Thibault Hirsch","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neutrophils were historically considered a homogenous population of cells with functions limited to innate immunity against external threats. However, with the rise of immunotherapy, recent works have shown that neutrophils are also important actors in immuno-oncology. In this context, neutrophils appear as a more heterogenous population of cells. However, many reported neutrophil subpopulations, or neutrophils with various transcriptional states, lack functional characterization to confirm their suspected roles. Thus, we believe that functional assays remain essential to define the role of neutrophils in cancer. In this chapter, we present a T-cell proliferation assay based on the use of allogeneic T-cells to assess the suppressive capabilities of neutrophils isolated from human blood or tumor samples. Allogeneic T-cells are isolated in large quantities from the blood of non-cancerous donors and frozen in aliquots to be used in several experiments. This reduces variability by excluding other cancer-derived factors, which would be present if autologous T-cell were used and allows to isolate the effect of neutrophils on T-cell proliferation. Thawed T-cells have poor proliferative capacities and to initiate proliferation they require co-culture with mature dendritic cells that we generate from monocytes isolated from the same blood sample. Initially developed for lung cancer patients, our method to isolate low-density neutrophils (LDN) and normal-density neutrophils (NDN) can be used with any patient and adapted to other kind of samples (e.g., ascites, urine, …).</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"191 ","pages":"151-196"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143008070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-11-18DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.002
Lourdes Hontecillas-Prieto, Daniel J García-Domínguez, Rocío Flores-Campos, Juan Antonio Flores, Antonio Pérez-Pérez, Luis de la Cruz-Merino, Víctor Sánchez-Margalet, Nabil Hajji
{"title":"Simplified acid extraction and quantification of histones in human tumor cells.","authors":"Lourdes Hontecillas-Prieto, Daniel J García-Domínguez, Rocío Flores-Campos, Juan Antonio Flores, Antonio Pérez-Pérez, Luis de la Cruz-Merino, Víctor Sánchez-Margalet, Nabil Hajji","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Histones are essential nuclear proteins that package eukaryotic DNA into chromosomes, play a vital role in gene regulation, DNA replication, DNA repair and chromosome condensation. Understanding histone modifications is crucial for grasping biological and disease-related processes. Specific alterations in histone modifications serve as sensitive and selective biomarkers for conditions like cancer, impacting both tumor and immune cells and affecting their interactions. Indeed, the interest in histone modifications is growing in the field of tumor immunology and immunotherapy. Different techniques have been developed to characterize histone proteins and their modifications. Here, we present a simple acid extraction protocol to identify and quantify histones. The workflow described here can be used to detect and measure histone proteins or specific residues of histone, even capturing changes resulting from treatment with epigenetic drugs (Epi-drugs) or other drugs in in different human cancer cell line models.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"191 ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143008163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-03-02DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2023.04.003
Javier Ruiz-Navarro, Sofía Blázquez-Cucharero, Víctor Calvo, Manuel Izquierdo
{"title":"Imaging the immune synapse: Three-dimensional analysis of the immune synapse.","authors":"Javier Ruiz-Navarro, Sofía Blázquez-Cucharero, Víctor Calvo, Manuel Izquierdo","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2023.04.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2023.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>T cell receptor (TCR) stimulation of T lymphocytes by antigen bound to the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) of an antigen-presenting cell (APC), together with the interaction of accessory molecules, induces the formation of the immunological synapse (IS), the convergence of secretion vesicles toward the centrosome, and the polarization of the centrosome to the IS. Upon IS formation, an initial increase in cortical filamentous actin (F-actin) at the IS takes place, followed by a decrease in F-actin density at the central region of the IS, which contains the secretory domain. These reversible, cortical actin cytoskeleton reorganization processes that characterize a mature IS occur during lytic granule secretion in cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and natural killer (NK) cells and cytokine-containing vesicle secretion in T-helper (Th) lymphocytes. Besides, IS formation constitutes the basis of a signaling platform that integrates signals and coordinates molecular interactions that are necessary for an appropriate antigen-specific immune response. In this chapter we deal with the three-dimensional (3D) analysis of the synaptic interface architecture, as well as the analysis of the localization of different markers at the IS.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"193 ","pages":"15-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.002
María Alejandra Parigiani
{"title":"γδ T cell expansion and their use in in vitro cytotoxicity assays.","authors":"María Alejandra Parigiani","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Limited therapeutic options for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) patients prompted the exploration of advanced immunotherapeutic approaches in this cancer entity. γδ T cells started gaining attention for their remarkable ability to suppress skin cancer, which rapidly extended to other cancer entities. This special T cells represent a suitable immune population to be used in adoptive T cell transfer approaches. Combining characteristics of both αβ T cells and natural killer (NK) cells, these unique T cells exhibit swift cancer cell elimination independent of MHC class I antigen presentation. The distinct advantage of γδ T cell immunotherapy lies in its HLA-unrestricted nature, enabling the utilization of cells from healthy donors. Up to date, many studies demonstrate that also expanded γδ T cells from breast cancer patients exhibit enhanced cytotoxicity and cytokine release in vitro, paving the way for γδ T cell-based therapies. The approach outlined below offers an alternative method for conducting in vitro cytotoxicity assays, utilizing γδ T cells as the effector cell population and breast cancer stem cells as the target.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"193 ","pages":"253-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.03.001
Andrea Michela Biolato, Liza Filali, Max Krecke, Clément Thomas, Céline Hoffmann
{"title":"A comprehensive guide to study the immunological synapse using imaging flow cytometry.","authors":"Andrea Michela Biolato, Liza Filali, Max Krecke, Clément Thomas, Céline Hoffmann","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.03.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cytotoxic lymphocytes, such as cytotoxic T cells and natural killer (NK) cells, are instrumental in the recognition and eradication of pathogenic cells, notably those undergoing malignant transformation. Cytotoxic lymphocytes establish direct contact with cancer cells via the formation of a specialized cell-cell junction known as the lytic immunological synapse. This structure serves as a critical platform for lymphocytes to integrate surface signals from potential cancer cells and to direct their cytolytic apparatus toward the confirmed targets. Conversely, cancer cells evolve synaptic defense strategies to evade lymphocyte cytotoxicity. This chapter delineates protocols using imaging flow cytometry to examine and quantify important subcellular processes occurring within cytotoxic lymphocytes and cancer cells engaged into an immunological synapse. These processes encompass the spatial redistribution of cytoskeletal components, vesicles, organelles and cell surface molecules. We specifically describe methods to generate and select conjugates between MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells or K-562 leukemic cells and either the NK-92MI cell line or primary human NK cells. In addition, we detail procedures to evaluate the synaptic polarization of the actin cytoskeleton, CD63-positive vesicular compartments, MHC class I molecules, as well as the microtubule-organizing center in effector cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"193 ","pages":"69-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2023-02-26DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2023.01.018
Emilia Scharrig, Maria L Sanmillan, Claudio G Giraudo
{"title":"Analysis of immune synapses by τau-STED imaging and 3D-quantitative colocalization of lytic granule markers.","authors":"Emilia Scharrig, Maria L Sanmillan, Claudio G Giraudo","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2023.01.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2023.01.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Over the last decades, intensive research studies have been focused on describing how the immunological synapse is formed, the intracellular mechanisms that control lytic granules formation, and even further, the steps toward granule polarization before the killing event is achieved. These convoluted processes pose significant experimental challenges since the components' sizes are smaller than the diffraction limit of the conventional fluorescent microscopy techniques and their highly dynamic nature. Here, we describe a procedure to perform a quantitative analysis of the protein markers of these lytic granules by using τau-STED imaging and 3D-quantitative colocalization of lytic granule markers. The innovative technology offered by τau-STED microscopy and unbiased imaging analysis is a great tool that could be applied to further our understanding of lytic granule composition and localization and study other dynamic processes at the immunological synapses.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"193 ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11806212/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143370850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-08-24DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.07.003
Valerio Iebba
{"title":"Bacterial predators and BALOs: Growth protocol and relation with mitochondria.","authors":"Valerio Iebba","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The microbial world is characterized by mechanisms of competition and predation, akin to the animal world. However, while predation's ecological role is well-established in animals, it's less understood in bacteria due to fewer known predators and unclear phylogenetic affiliations. Nevertheless, microorganisms can prey on bacterial cells, including Bacteriophages, Protists, and Predatory Prokaryotes. These predators inhabit various habitats and may play vital roles in bacterial ecology and ecosystem regulation. Predatory interactions between host and parasite are common in nature. Predatory bacteria, such as Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs), employ various strategies, including epibiotic predation and direct invasion. BALOs, which thrive in the periplasmic space of Gram-negative bacterial cells, modulate bacterial populations and could serve as preventive or therapeutic agents against Gram-negative infections. While primarily active against extracellular prey, BALOs may also target mitochondria, which are crucial for cellular processes. The relationship between intracellular bacteria and host mitochondria, including morphology, function, and apoptosis, warrants further exploration. Protocols for growing, propagating, and detecting predatory activities of BALOs, particularly Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, are provided to assess their presence and activities against potential prey.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"194 ","pages":"151-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring the mitochondrial localization of mycobacterial proteins.","authors":"Krishnaveni Mohareer, Jayashankar Medikonda, Sriram Yandrapally, Anushka Agarwal, Sharmistha Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.10.018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mitochondrion apart from being the energy hub of the cell, is also the center of various signaling pathways. During intracellular infection, either bacterial or viral, several pathogen proteins, metabolites, and possibly, lipids interact with the host mitochondria. These interactions allow the pathogens, such as Mtb, to reprogram the host mitochondrial functions, screwing the host immune responses and resulting in the persistence of the bacteria. Therefore, mitochondria offer a critical target organelle for various therapeutic interventions. This chapter deals with methods to demonstrate and establish the mitochondrial localization of Mtb proteins by confocal microscopy and mitochondrial enrichment. Transient transfection of mammalian constructs or infection Mycolicibacterium smegmatis infection could be used to overexpress the candidate Mtb protein in host cells, allowing the study of changes in the mitochondria's composition and function with regard to localization studies, mitochondrial DNA and RNA, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and bioenergetics.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"194 ","pages":"135-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Methods in cell biologyPub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2024-02-24DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.01.005
Kanmani Suganya, Paulraj Kanmani, Guochang Hu
{"title":"Quantification of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in macrophages during sepsis.","authors":"Kanmani Suganya, Paulraj Kanmani, Guochang Hu","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.01.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sepsis is the leading causes of death globally, arising from an imbalanced host response to severe infection. It leads to multi-organ failure and poor outcomes in septic patients due to compromised glucose and lipid oxidation, reduced oxygen consumption, elevated levels of circulating substrates, and impaired mitochondrial function. Mitochondria, essential cellular organelles, play a vital role in regulating various cellular activities and the host immune response to infection. Pathogens, particularly bacteria, often disrupt mitochondrial functions to dysregulate host immunity. Additionally, the mitochondrial function is closely associated with most host immune responses, making mitochondria crucial in maintaining host homeostasis during infection. The intrinsic inflammatory response triggered by pathogens in sepsis impairs mitochondrial function, resulting in excessive production of mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) and subsequently damage to multiple organs. Here, we present a simple protocol for assessing mitochondrial ROS levels in bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs) isolated from mice. We observed a higher level of ROS generation in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-treated BMDMs, indicating the effectiveness and efficiency of our designed protocol for assessing mitochondrial ROS generation in vitro.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"194 ","pages":"59-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}