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Imaging G Protein-coupled Receptor-mediated Chemotaxis and its Signaling Events in Neutrophil-like HL60 Cells
Published on: September 14, 2016
Chemotaxis in neutrophil-like HL-60 cells
Arthur Millius1, Orion D Weiner
1Cardiovascular Research Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Abstract:
Asymmetric localization of intracellular proteins and signals directs movement during axon guidance, endothelial cell invasion, and immune cell migration. In these processes, cell movement is guided by external chemical cues in a process known as chemotaxis. In particular, leukocyte migration in the innate immune system has been studied in the human neutrophil-like cell line (HL-60). Here, we describe the maintenance and transfection of HL-60 cells and explain how to analyze their behavior with two standard chemotactic assays. Finally, we demonstrate how to fix and stain the actin cytoskeleton of polarized cells for fluorescent microscopy imaging.
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