发布: 2021年04月20日第11卷第8期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3991 浏览次数: 3045
评审: Jason NeidlemanMei Po ChanAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
The CCF4-AM Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay is a sensitive approach to measure bacterial cytosolic translocation in live cells. The FRET pair hydroxycoumarin (donor) and fluorescein (acceptor) are linked by a CCF4-AM β-lactam ring, the substrate of β-lactamase. The exogenously added, neutral charged-FRET reagent can diffuse across the membrane and stay in the cytosol only once it is charged in the cytosol. When bacteria translocate from subcellular organelles (e.g., phagosomes) to the cytosol, the bacteria-associated β-lactamase cleaves the β-lactam ring, resulting in loss of FRET signal. Here we describe the fluorometer-based approach optimized for direct measurement of cytosolic translocation as a result of the EsxAB complex of Mycobacterium marinum in RAW264.7 cells.
Keywords: CCF4-AM (CCF4-AM)Background
The development of a β-lactamase reporter assay gave rise to the subsequent Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) assay (Zlokarnik et al., 1998; Cavrois et al., 2002). Two fluorescence dyes, hydroxycoumarin (donor) and fluorescein (acceptor), are linked via a CCF4-AM (CCF2-AM in earlier reports) β-lactam ring. When excited at 405 nm, hydroxycoumarin emits at 450 nm (blue), which subsequently excites fluorescein to emit at 527 nm (green). Cleavage of the β-lactam ring by bacteria-associated β-lactamase results in loss of FRET and direct emission of hydroxycoumarin (blue) (Jones and Padilla-Parra, 2016). The CCF4-AM FRET reporter assay is versatile and has been been used for a variety of different applications, such as tracking molecular fusions (Jones and Padilla-Parra, 2016; Shaikh, et al., 2019), tracking delivery of biological cargos to the cytosol (Stone et al., 2018), and monitoring translocation of bacteria within cells (Charpentier and Oswald, 2004). Since Mycobacterium marinum also possesses β-lactamase (Flores et al., 2005), Simeone and colleagues exploited the FRET assay to track cytosolic translocation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in THP-1 cells (Simeone et al., 2012). Recently, we applied this method for investigation of the role of EsxAB in cytosolic translocation of Mycobacterium marinum (Acosta et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2016; Aguilera et al., 2020). RAW264.7 cells were infected with M. marinum and the results were obtained under a fluorometer, providing a quick, quantitative method for analysis of results. Furthermore, as Mycobacterium marinum is a BSL-2 pathogen and contains similarities in its ESX-1 locus (Tobin and Ramakrishnan, 2008), it provides a safe, direct way to investigate the EsxAB complex. Here we describe our procedure for direct monitoring of cytosolic translocation of Mycobacterium marinum in RAW264.7 cells via the CCF4-AM FRET assay using a fluorometer.
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细胞生物学 > 基于细胞的分析方法 > 细菌感染
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