Co-Culture and Transduction of Murine Thymocytes on Delta-Like 4-Expressing Stromal Cells to Study Oncogenes in T-Cell LeukemiaGisele O. L. Rodrigues 1, WenQing Li 1, Sarah D. Cramer 1,2,3, Hila Y. Winer 1, Tu Chun Hsu 1,2,3, Timothy Gower 4, Julie A. Hixon 1, Scott K. Durum 1
1Cytokines and Immunity Section, Cancer Innovation Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 2Comparative Biomedical Scientist Training Program, NIH, 3Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Michigan State University, 4NCI-Frederick Laboratory Animal Sciences Program
This protocol describes the isolation of double-negative thymocytes from the mouse thymus followed by retroviral transduction and co-culture on the delta-like 4-expressing bone marrow stromal cell line co-culture system (OP9-DL4) for further functional analysis.