Rai, M.N. and Borah, S. and Bairwa, G. and Sriram, B. and Neelima, G. and Kaur, Rupinder (2013) Establishment of an in vitro system to study intracellular behavior of Candida glabrata in human THP-1 macrophages. Journal of Visualized Experiments (82). e50625. ISSN 1940-087X

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Abstract

A cell culture model system, if a close mimic of host environmental conditions, can serve as an inexpensive, reproducible and easily manipulatable alternative to animal model systems for the study of a specific step of microbial pathogen infection. A human monocytic cell line THP-1 which, upon phorbol ester treatment, is differentiated into macrophages, has previously been used to study virulence strategies of many intracellular pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Here, we discuss a protocol to enact an in vitro cell culture model system using THP-1 macrophages to delineate the interaction of an opportunistic human yeast pathogen Candida glabrata with host phagocytic cells. This model system is simple, fast, amenable to high-throughput mutant screens, and requires no sophisticated equipment. A typical THP-1 macrophage infection experiment takes approximately 24 hr with an additional 24-48 hr to allow recovered intracellular yeast to grow on rich medium for colony forming unit-based viability analysis. Like other in vitro model systems, a possible limitation of this approach is difficulty in extrapolating the results obtained to a highly complex immune cell circuitry existing in the human host. However, despite this, the current protocol is very useful to elucidate the strategies that a fungal pathogen may employ to evade/counteract antimicrobial response and survive, adapt, and proliferate in the nutrient-poor environment of host immune cells.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Immunology, Issue 82, Candida glabrata, THP-1 macrophages, colony forming unit (CFU) assay, fluorescence microscopy, signature-tagged mutagenesis
Depositing User:	Users 2 not found.
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2015 08:32
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2015 08:32
URI:	http://cdfd.sciencecentral.in/id/eprint/517

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