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On Jun 29, 2011, at 11:46 AM, JOEL B. SHEFFIELD wrote:
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> Gudrun, by "small", what mw dextran are you suggesting?
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> Joel
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> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Gudrun Ihrke <
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>> Jason,
>> The times should hold up pretty well for many mammalian cell lines,
>> provided the cells are incubated at 37C and have prominent clathrin-
>> mediated
>> endocytosis. We have used fibroblasts or epithelial cells. Fluid
>> phase
>> uptake is of course through all endocytic pathways, but I have little
>> experience with cells that use mostly other uptake mechanisms. We
>> have used
>> either normal serum-containing tissue culture medium (buffered with
>> HEPES if
>> pH is a concern due to small volumes, and/or preequilibrate the
>> dextran-containing medium in CO2 incubator) or BSA-containing
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>> the pulse.
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>> Regards,
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>> On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Kilgore, Jason wrote:
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>>> I second that advice, though I imagine the timing would depend
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>>> Gudrun, what was the cell line and media you used?
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>>> Tobias,
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>>> Unless you preincubate with lipoprotein-deficient serum, the LDL
>>> receptor will be downregulated. It would be much easier to use a
>>> small
>>> fluorescent dextran to label the endocytic pathway towards
>>> lysosomes:
>>> ~3 min incubation will give you early endosomal staining, ~15-45 min
>>> late endosomal (best use a pulse of 10-15 min pulse and chase 15-30
>>> min for bright staining, >1h late endosomal/lysosomal staining (use
>>> also a pulse if you want to chase the dextran out of earlier
>>> compartments).
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>>> Gudrun
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>>> On Jun 28, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Tobias Baskin wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
>>>> This is not a "confocal" question but rather a cell bio/
>>>> microscopy
>>>> related one. Nevertheless, I am hoping someone will be able to
>>>> answer.
>>>>
>>>> I co-teach a cell biology lab course where students learn
>>>> how to
>>>> use conventional epi fluorescence and video microscopy. We have a
>>>> variety of "cells in action" labs for them to do, one of these
>>>> being
>>>> endocytosis. As markers, e have used labeled-transferrin and also
>>>> DiI labeled LDL, with the idea being that the transferrin is
>>>> recycled back to the plasma membrane whereas the LDL moves into
>>>> lysosomes. While the transferrin labeling seems to work more or
>>>> less
>>>> as expected, results with the DiI LDL are erratic. Sometimes there
>>>> is no labeling at all, and we never have seen what looks like deep
>>>> internal labeling in putative lysosomes.
>>>>
>>>> We plan to troubleshoot later this summer but as none of us
>>>> have
>>>> studied endocytosis, we have no first hand experience. I am
>>>> wondering if anyone out there knows of a tried and true endocytosis
>>>> cell bio lab? Or perhaps knows about some tricks for handling DiI
>>>> LDL. Or perhaps it is a matter of a good cell line -- we work
>>>> typically with a 3T3 fibroblasts or LLCPK epithelial cells (with
>>>> equally dismal results for the DiI LDL endocytosis).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> As ever
>>>> Tobias Baskin
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