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":"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: 2024-04-24DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.03.008
Douglas C Chung, Alisha R Elford, Nicolas Jacquelot
{"title":"Characterizing tumor-infiltrating group 1 innate lymphoid cells in PyMT breast tumors.","authors":"Douglas C Chung, Alisha R Elford, Nicolas Jacquelot","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and continues to have a significant impact in cancer-associated deaths worldwide. Investigating the complex roles of infiltrating immune subsets within the tumor microenvironment (TME) will enable a better understanding of disease progression and reveal novel therapeutic strategies for patients with breast cancer. The mammary-specific expression of polyomavirus middle T oncoprotein (MMTV-PyMT) was first established in 1992 by William Muller and is the most commonly used genetically engineered mouse model (GEMM) for breast cancer research. Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are composed of a diverse family of effector cells known to play important roles in defense against pathogens, tissue homeostasis, and tumor immunity. In mice, group 1 ILCs are composed of NK cells and ILC1s, which have been shown to have differential roles within the TME. Here, we provide a detailed methodology in characterizing tumor-infiltrating NK cells and ILC1s in MMTV-PyMT breast tumor model.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"192 ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143039818","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":"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: 2024-03-02DOI: 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":"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}
{"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":"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: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.005
Laura Carrillo-Serradell, Alessandra Borgognone, Marc Noguera-Julian, Violeta Planells-Romeo, Lucía Aragón-Serrano, Mariona Parera, Francesc Català-Moll, Sergi Casadó-Llombart, María Velasco-de Andrés, Roger Paredes, Francisco Lozano
{"title":"Antimicrobial regime for gut microbiota depletion in experimental mice models.","authors":"Laura Carrillo-Serradell, Alessandra Borgognone, Marc Noguera-Julian, Violeta Planells-Romeo, Lucía Aragón-Serrano, Mariona Parera, Francesc Català-Moll, Sergi Casadó-Llombart, María Velasco-de Andrés, Roger Paredes, Francisco Lozano","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mice models serve as a valuable tool to study microbiome-immune system interactions. While the use of germ-free mice may represent the gold-standard method, antibiotic-based microbiome depletion provides a more cost-efficient and feasible system. The protocol here in presented provides a mild antimicrobial regime to deplete basal microbiota in 8-week-old C57BL/6 mice, aiming to ensure reproducibility in microbiota studies. The antibiotic regime combines five different antimicrobial agents delivered either ad libitum or via oral gavage, aiming at depleting core gut microbiota in mice. Various administration timings were explored, concluding there were no differences when the antimicrobial treatment was applied for 3, 5 or 7 consecutive days. By offering a detailed antimicrobial preparation and mouse administration, as well as fecal sample processing and 16s rRNA sequencing, this protocol provides an initial framework to develop mice microbiota studies, with perceptible results in fecal microbiota composition.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"192 ","pages":"101-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143039808","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":"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}
{"title":"Evaluating polyglutamine protein aggregation and toxicity in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans models of Huntington's disease.","authors":"Larissa Marafiga Cordeiro, Félix Alexandre Antunes Soares, Leticia Priscilla Arantes","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder characterized by a repeat of the cytosine-adenine-guanine trinucleotide (CAG) in the huntingtin gene (HTT). This results in the translation of a mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein with an abnormally long polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat. The pathology of HD leads to neuronal cell loss, motor abnormalities, and dementia. Currently, the pathogenesis of HD remains incompletely understood, and available treatments only address symptoms. Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model for neurodegenerative diseases, enabling the exploration of the molecular, cellular, and physiological mechanisms underlying HD pathogenesis. It also facilitates the investigation of potential therapeutic targets and interventions. Here, we describe common experiments employed to assess polyQ aggregation and toxicity in transgenic C. elegans models of HD, utilizing fluorescent markers to detect protein aggregation and neuron degeneration, in addition to specific behavioral assays (thrash frequency, nose touch response, and octanol response).</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"192 ","pages":"115-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143039851","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: 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.003
Lydia F Daniels Gatward, Aileen J F King
{"title":"Matching model with mechanism: Appropriate rodent models for studying various aspects of diabetes pathophysiology.","authors":"Lydia F Daniels Gatward, Aileen J F King","doi":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/bs.mcb.2024.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many rodent models are available for preclinical diabetes research making it a challenge for researchers to choose the most appropriate one for their experimental question. To aid in this, models have classically been categorized according to which type of diabetes they represent, and further into whether the model is induced, spontaneous or the result of genetic manipulation. This fails to capture the complexity of pathogenesis seen in diabetes in humans. This includes pathogenesis specifically involving the beta cell, which is no longer considered to be innocuous in the development and progression of diabetes. In this chapter we explore rodent models that incorporate the initiating factors believed to be involved in type 1 diabetes (autoimmunity) and type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance), before further discussing rodents that can be used to model specific mechanisms involved in a failure of functional beta cell mass (impaired beta cell function and beta cell apoptosis). We segregate models of beta cell pathogenesis based on the beta cell stressor predominantly associated with phenotype, but it is important to consider that most rodent models will exhibit more than one beta cell stressor. Similarly, many models exhibit more than one pathogenic mechanism, for example the same model may show insulin resistance, impaired beta cell function as well as beta cell loss. This can complicate interpretation of results and should be considered, and the model thoroughly researched, during the experimental planning stage.</p>","PeriodicalId":18437,"journal":{"name":"Methods in cell biology","volume":"192 ","pages":"39-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143039857","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}