Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, CNRS UMR 8104, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Immunology and Infection

"Phagosome Closure Assay" to Visualize Phagosome Formation in Three Dimensions Using Total Internal Reflection Fluorescent Microscopy (TIRFM)

Florence Marie-Anaïs¹, Julie Mazzolini¹, Pierre Bourdoncle¹, Florence Niedergang¹

¹Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, CNRS UMR 8104, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité

We describe an experimental setup to visualize with unprecedented high resolution phagosome formation and closure in three dimensions in living macrophages, using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. It allows monitoring of the base of the phagocytic cup, the extending pseudopods, as well as the precise site of phagosome scission.

Immunology and Infection

Phagosome Migration and Velocity Measured in Live Primary Human Macrophages Infected with HIV-1

Gabrielle Lê-Bury¹, Chantal Deschamps¹, Audrey Dumas¹, Florence Niedergang¹

¹Inserm U1016, Institut Cochin, CNRS UMR 8104, Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité

We describe a method to measure the velocity of phagosomes moving towards the cell center in living cells infected with or without the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1, using spinning disk confocal fluorescence microscopy to identify fluorescent infected cells and bright field microscopy to detect phagosomes.