We thank F. Bouallague and the IBENS animal facility for excellent zebrafish care. Research reported in this publication was supported by the Fondation ARC pour la recherche sur le cancer, grants N&#176; SFI20111203770 and N&#176; PJA 20131200143.

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このプロトコルは、ライブイメージングと細胞移植を使用してキメラ胚の生成を組み合わせることにより、 インビボでの細胞遊走における候補遺伝子の役割を研究するための簡単な方法を提示します。 モザイク胚の作成細胞のダイナミクスを研究することは、細胞質拡張を分析するために、その輪郭の可視化が必要となります。良好な視覚的...

多細胞生物において、細胞遊走は、組織や器官への細胞の組織化を確実に胚の発達のために、それが組織の恒常性（創傷治癒）および免疫性に関与する成人用の両方に必須です。これらの生理学的な機能に加えて、細胞遊走はまた、特に、癌転移を含む多様な病的状態に関与しています。 細胞遊走は、平坦な表面上での細胞の移動を確保する分子機構の全体的な理解を提供する、数十年にわたってインビトロで分析された。 インビボではしかしながら、細胞は、より複雑な環境に直面しています。明らかに、移行を誘導する細胞や分泌ケモカイン隣接、そのような細胞外マトリックスとして生体内移行が外部の合図によって影響され得ることは、過去数年に登場し、その記載されているものと異なる場合があり、細胞移動を駆動機構&lt;em&gt;のin vitroで1,2。 生体内の細胞遊走に確保するメカニズムは、in vitro試験に比べて、主に増加した技術的な困難のため、これまであまり注目されてきた。特に、細胞遊走のインビボ分析遊走細胞への直接的な光アクセスを必要とする、でユニークな細胞を標識するためのテクニックその原動力と形態、ならびにゲインまたは機能の損失を見るためには、候補遺伝子の役割をテストするために近づきます。これまでのところ、これらの特性を保有するだけ少数のモデル系は、 インビボ細胞遊走3 に切開するために使用されています。 我々は最近、 生体内の細胞遊走4,5 に制御する際に候補遺伝子の機能を評価するために、新しい便利なモデルシステムとして初期のゼブラフィッシュの胚に前向き脊索前板の移行を使用していました。 （また、前方の中内として知られている）前向き脊索前板はGASTの開始時に形成する細胞群であります胚の背側にrulation。原腸形成時に、このグループをまとめ脊索前板、中内胚葉の肥厚、脊索に前方、および神経板の下にあるを形成するために、胚6-8の動物極に向かって移動します。その後部の可能性が高い中胚葉9を頭に貢献しながら、脊索前板の前方部分は、孵化腺を生じさせます。外部開発及び魚類胚の光学的透明度のおかげで、細胞遊走を直接かつ容易にこの構造では観察することができます。 細胞移植は、モザイク胚10を迅速かつ簡単に作成できます非常に強力なテクニックです。単離された細胞を標識に移植された細胞の結果で蛍光細胞骨格マーカーを発現する、の形態とダイナミクスを容易に観察することができます。機能の喪失またはゲインにこれ​​をアプローチ組み合わせることにより、缶の細胞自律的な機能の分析を可能にしますdidate遺伝子。 提示されたプロトコルは、我々は生体内 5 に細胞遊走およびアクチンダイナミクスを制御する際にTORC2コンポーネントSIN1の機能を評価する方法について説明します。しかし、結果に記載し、さらに説明するように、 インビボでの細胞遊走を制御する任意の候補遺伝子の潜在的な含意を分析するために使用することができます。

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analyzing in vivo cell migration using cell transplantations and time-lapse imaging in zebrafish embryos

Cell migration is key to many physiological and pathological conditions, including cancer metastasis. The cellular and molecular bases of cell migration have been thoroughly analyzed in vitro. However, in vivo cell migration somehow differs from in vitro migration, and has proven more difficult to analyze, being less accessible to direct observation and manipulation. This protocol uses the migration of the prospective prechordal plate in the early zebrafish embryo as a model system to study the function of candidate genes in cell migration. Prechordal plate progenitors form a group of cells which, during gastrulation, undergoes a directed migration from the embryonic organizer to the animal pole of the embryo. The proposed protocol uses cell transplantation to create mosaic embryos. This offers the combined advantages of labeling isolated cells, which is key to good imaging, and of limiting gain/loss of function effects to the observed cells, hence ensuring cell-autonomous effects. We describe here how we assessed the function of the TORC2 component Sin1 in cell migration, but the protocol can be used to analyze the function of any candidate gene in controlling cell migration in vivo.

提示された技術は、 インビボ細胞遊走に制御する際に、SIN1、Torの錯体2（TORC2）のコア要素の1つの役割を分析するために使用しました。細胞移植の使用は、単離された細胞と細胞自律的効果の分析の標識化を可能にします。映画S1は、移植脊索前板前駆細胞の遊走を示しています。 ABP140とアクチン標識がアクチン豊富な細胞質突起の容易な可視化を可能?...

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Analyzing In Vivo Cell Migration using Cell Transplantations and Time-lapse Imaging in Zebrafish Embryos

分析<em&gt;インビボ</emゼブラフィッシュ胚における細胞移植とタイムラプスイメージングを使用して&gt;細胞移動

Combining cell transplantation, cytoskeletal labeling and loss/gain of function approaches, this protocol describes how the migrating zebrafish prospective prechordal plate can be used to analyze the function of a candidate gene in in vivo cell migration.

Cell migration is key to many physiological and pathological conditions, including cancer metastasis. The cellular and molecular bases of cell migration ...

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Analyzing In Vivo Cell Migration using Cell Transplantations and Time-lapse Imaging in Zebrafish Embryos

7.7K ビュー.  IBENS, Institut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure. Combining cell transplantation, cytoskeletal labeling and loss/gain of function approaches, this protocol describes how the migrating zebrafish prospective prechordal plate can be used to analyze the function of a candidate gene in in vivo cell migration. 

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Invasive Behavior of Human Breast Cancer Cells in Embryonic Zebrafish

In many cases, cancer patients do not die of a primary tumor, but rather because of metastasis. Although numerous rodent models are available for studying cancer metastasis in vivo, other efficient, reliable, low-cost models are needed to quickly access the potential effects of (epi)genetic changes or pharmacological compounds. As such, we illustrate and explain the feasibility of xenograft models using human breast cancer cells injected into zebrafish embryos to support this goal. Under the microscope, fluorescent proteins or chemically labeled human breast cancer cells are transplanted into transgenic zebrafish embryos, Tg (fli:EGFP), at the perivitelline space or duct of Cuvier (Doc) 48 h after fertilization. Shortly afterwards, the temporal-spatial process of cancer cell invasion, dissemination, and metastasis in the living fish body is visualized under a fluorescent microscope. The models using different injection sites, i.e., perivitelline space or Doc are complementary to one another, reflecting the early stage (intravasation step) and late stage (extravasation step) of the multistep metastatic cascade of events. Moreover, peritumoral and intratumoral angiogenesis can be observed with the injection into the perivitelline space. The entire experimental period is no more than 8 days. These two models combine cell labeling, micro-transplantation, and fluorescence imaging techniques, enabling the rapid evaluation of cancer metastasis in response to genetic and pharmacological manipulations.

Here, we describe xenograft zebrafish models using two different injection sites, i.e., perivitelline space and duct of Cuvier, to investigate the invasive behavior and to assess the intravasation and extravasation potential of human breast cancer cells, respectively.

胚ゼブラフィッシュにおけるヒト乳癌細胞の浸潤挙動

In many cases, cancer patients do not die of a primary tumor, but rather because of metastasis. Although numerous rodent models are available for studying ...

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Observing Mitotic Division and Dynamics in a Live Zebrafish Embryo

Mitosis is critical for organismal growth and differentiation. The process is highly dynamic and requires ordered events to accomplish proper chromatin condensation, microtubule-kinetochore attachment, chromosome segregation, and cytokinesis in a small time frame. Errors in the delicate process can result in human disease, including birth defects and cancer. Traditional approaches investigating human mitotic disease states often rely on cell culture systems, which lack the natural physiology and developmental/tissue-specific context advantageous when studying human disease. This protocol overcomes many obstacles by providing a way to visualize, with high resolution, chromosome dynamics in a vertebrate system, the zebrafish. This protocol will detail an approach that can be used to obtain dynamic images of dividing cells, which include: in vitro transcription, zebrafish breeding/collecting, embryo embedding, and time-lapse imaging. Optimization and modifications of this protocol are also explored. Using H2A.F/Z-EGFP (labels chromatin) and mCherry-CAAX (labels cell membrane) mRNA-injected embryos, mitosis in AB wild-type, auroraBhi1045, and esco2hi2865 mutant zebrafish is visualized. High resolution live imaging in zebrafish allows one to observe multiple mitoses to statistically quantify mitotic defects and timing of mitotic progression. In addition, observation of qualitative aspects that define improper mitotic processes (i.e., congression defects, missegregation of chromosomes, etc.) and improper chromosomal outcomes (i.e., aneuploidy, polyploidy, micronuclei, etc.) are observed. This assay can be applied to the observation of tissue differentiation/development and is amenable to the use of mutant zebrafish and pharmacological agents. Visualization of how defects in mitosis lead to cancer and developmental disorders will greatly enhance understanding of the pathogenesis of disease.

Mitosis is critical to every living organism and defects often lead to cancer and developmental disorders. Using this imaging protocol and zebrafish as a model system, researchers can visualize mitosis in a live vertebrate organism and the multitude of defects that arise when mitotic processes are defective.

ライブゼブラフィッシュ胚における有糸分裂とダイナミクスを観察します

Mitosis is critical for organismal growth and differentiation. The process is highly dynamic and requires ordered events to accomplish proper chromatin ...

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In Vivo Imaging of Transgenic Gene Expression in Individual Retinal Progenitors in Chimeric Zebrafish Embryos to Study Cell Nonautonomous Influences

The genetic and technical strengths have made the zebrafish vertebrate a key model organism in which the consequences of gene manipulations can be traced in vivo throughout the rapid developmental period. Multiple processes can be studied including cell proliferation, gene expression, cell migration and morphogenesis. Importantly, the generation of chimeras through transplantations can be easily performed, allowing mosaic labeling and tracking of individual cells under the influence of the host environment. For example, by combining functional gene manipulations of the host embryo (e.g., through morpholino microinjection) and live imaging, the effects of extrinsic, cell nonautonomous signals (provided by the genetically modified environment) on individual transplanted donor cells can be assessed. Here we demonstrate how this approach is used to compare the onset of fluorescent transgene expression as a proxy for the timing of cell fate determination in different genetic host environments.
In this article, we provide the protocol for microinjecting zebrafish embryos to mark donor cells and to cause gene knockdown in host embryos, a description of the transplantation technique used to generate chimeric embryos, and the protocol for preparing and running in vivo time-lapse confocal imaging of multiple embryos. In particular, performing multiposition imaging is crucial when comparing timing of events such as the onset of gene expression. This requires data collection from multiple control and experimental embryos processed simultaneously. Such an approach can easily be extended for studies of extrinsic influences in any organ or tissue of choice accessible to live imaging, provided that transplantations can be targeted easily according to established embryonic fate maps.

In Vivo Imaging of Transgenic Gene Expression in Individual Retinal Progenitors in Chimeric Zebrafish Embryos to Study Cell Nonautonomous Influences

Live tracking of individual WT retinal progenitors in distinct genetic backgrounds allows for the assessment of the contribution of cell non-autonomous signaling during neurogenesis. Here, a combination of gene knockdown, chimera generation via embryo transplantation and in vivo time-lapse confocal imaging was utilized for this purpose.

細胞非自律影響を研究するためのキメラゼブラフィッシュ胚における個々の網膜前駆細胞におけるトランスジェニック遺伝子発現のin vivoイメージング

The genetic and technical strengths have made the zebrafish vertebrate a key model organism in which the consequences of gene manipulations can be traced ...

Multi-Photon Time Lapse Imaging to Visualize Development in Real-time: Visualization of Migrating Neural Crest Cells in Zebrafish Embryos

Congenital eye and craniofacial anomalies reflect disruptions in the neural crest, a transient population of migratory stem cells that give rise to numerous cell types throughout the body. Understanding the biology of the neural crest has been limited, reflecting a lack of genetically tractable models that can be studied in vivo and in real-time. Zebrafish is a particularly important developmental model for studying migratory cell populations, such as the neural crest. To examine neural crest migration into the developing eye, a combination of the advanced optical techniques of laser scanning microscopy with long wavelength multi-photon fluorescence excitation was implemented to capture high-resolution, three-dimensional, real-time videos of the developing eye in transgenic zebrafish embryos, namely Tg(sox10:EGFP) and Tg(foxd3:GFP), as sox10 and foxd3 have been shown in numerous animal models to regulate early neural crest differentiation and likely represent markers for neural crest cells. Multi-photon time-lapse imaging was used to discern the behavior and migratory patterns of two neural crest cell populations contributing to early eye development. This protocol provides information for generating time-lapse videos during zebrafish neural crest migration, as an example, and can be further applied to visualize the early development of many structures in the zebrafish and other model organisms.

A combination of the advanced optical techniques of laser scanning microscopy with long wavelength multi-photon fluorescence excitation was implemented to capture high-resolution, three-dimensional, real-time imaging of neural crest migration in Tg(sox10:EGFP) and Tg(foxd3:GFP) zebrafish embryos.

リアルタイムで開発を可視化する多光子タイムラプス イメージング: ゼブラフィッシュ胚の神経堤細胞の可視化

Congenital eye and craniofacial anomalies reflect disruptions in the neural crest, a transient population of migratory stem cells that give rise to ...

Live Imaging of Cell Motility and Actin Cytoskeleton of Individual Neurons and Neural Crest Cells in Zebrafish Embryos

The zebrafish is an ideal model for imaging cell behaviors during development in vivo. Zebrafish embryos are externally fertilized and thus easily accessible at all stages of development. Moreover, their optical clarity allows high resolution imaging of cell and molecular dynamics in the natural environment of the intact embryo. We are using a live imaging approach to analyze cell behaviors during neural crest cell migration and the outgrowth and guidance of neuronal axons.
Live imaging is particularly useful for understanding mechanisms that regulate cell motility processes. To visualize details of cell motility, such as protrusive activity and molecular dynamics, it is advantageous to label individual cells. In zebrafish, plasmid DNA injection yields a transient mosaic expression pattern and offers distinct benefits over other cell labeling methods. For example, transgenic lines often label entire cell populations and thus may obscure visualization of the fine protrusions (or changes in molecular distribution) in a single cell. In addition, injection of DNA at the one-cell stage is less invasive and more precise than dye injections at later stages.
Here we describe a method for labeling individual developing neurons or neural crest cells and imaging their behavior in vivo. We inject plasmid DNA into 1-cell stage embryos, which results in mosaic transgene expression. The vectors contain cell-specific promoters that drive expression of a gene of interest in a subset of sensory neurons or neural crest cells. We provide examples of cells labeled with membrane targeted GFP or with a biosensor probe that allows visualization of F-actin in living cells1.
Erica Andersen, Namrata Asuri, and Matthew Clay contributed equally to this work.

This protocol describes imaging of individual neurons or neural crest cells in living zebrafish embryos. This method is used to examine cellular behaviors and actin localization using fluorescence confocal time-lapse microscopy.

細胞運動やゼブラフィッシュ胚における個々の神経細胞と神経堤細胞のアクチン細胞骨格のライブイメージング

The zebrafish is an ideal model for imaging cell behaviors during development in vivo. Zebrafish embryos are externally fertilized and thus easily ...

生物学

ゼブラフィッシュ幼生の効率的なIn vivo腫瘍研究への活用

A Simple, Rapid, and Effective Method for Tumor Xenotransplantation Analysis in Transparent Zebrafish Embryos

In vivo studies of tumor behavior are a staple of cancer research; however, the use of mice presents significant challenges in cost and time. Here, we present larval zebrafish as a transplant model that has numerous advantages over murine models, including ease of handling, low expense, and short experimental duration. Moreover, the absence of an adaptive immune system during larval stages obviates the need to generate and use immunodeficient strains. While established protocols for xenotransplantation in zebrafish embryos exist, we present here an improved method involving embryo staging for faster transfer, survival analysis, and the use of flow cytometry to assess disease burden. Embryos are staged to facilitate rapid cell injection into the yolk of the larvae and cell marking to monitor the consistency of the injected cell bolus. After injection, embryo survival analysis is assessed up to 7 days post injection (dpi). Finally, disease burden is also assessed by marking transferred cells with a fluorescent protein and analysis by flow cytometry. Flow cytometry is enabled by a standardized method of preparing cell suspensions from zebrafish embryos, which could also be used in establishing the primary culture of zebrafish cells. In summary, the procedure described here allows a more rapid assessment of the behavior of tumor cells in vivo with larger numbers of animals per study arm and in a more cost-effective manner.

著者スポットライト:ゼブラフィッシュにおける腫瘍異種移植を用いたがん治療の進歩

We describe a protocol for xenotransplantation into the yolk of transparent zebrafish embryos that is optimized by a simple, rapid staging method. Post-injection analyses include survival and assessing the disease burden of xenotransplanted cells by flow cytometry.

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

In vivo studies of tumor behavior are a staple of cancer research; however, the use of mice presents significant challenges in cost and time. Here, we ...

Live Imaging of Cell Extrusion from the Epidermis of Developing Zebrafish

Homeostatic maintenance of epithelial tissues requires the continual removal of damaged cells without disrupting barrier function. Our studies have found that dying cells send signals to their live neighbors to form and contract a ring of actin and myosin that ejects it out from the epithelial sheet while closing any gaps that might have resulted from its exit, a process termed cell extrusion1. The optical clarity of developing zebrafish provides an excellent system to visualize extrusion in living epithelia. Here we describe a method to induce and image extrusion in the larval zebrafish epidermis. To visualize extrusion, we inject a red fluorescent protein labeled probe for F-actin into one-cell stage transgenic zebrafish embryos expressing green fluorescent protein in the epidermis and induce apoptosis by addition of G418 to larvae. We then use time-lapse imaging on a spinning disc confocal microscope to observe actin dynamics and epithelial cell behaviors during the process of apoptotic cell extrusion. This approach allows us to investigate the extrusion process in live epithelia and will provide an avenue to study disease states caused by the failure to eliminate apoptotic cells.

Dying cells are extruded from epithelial tissues by concerted contraction of neighboring cells without disrupting barrier function. The optical clarity of developing zebrafish provides an excellent system to visualize extrusion in living epithelia. Here we describe methods to induce and image extrusion in the larval zebrafish epidermis at cellular resolution.

開発ゼブラフィッシュの表皮から細胞の押出のライブイメージング

Homeostatic maintenance of epithelial tissues requires the continual removal of damaged cells without disrupting barrier function.  Our studies have found ...

<meta charset="utf8"></head><body>再生・開発研究のための堅牢なゼブラフィッシュ細胞移植

High-resolution Cell Transplantation in Embryonic and Larval Zebrafish

Development and regeneration occur by a process of genetically encoded spatiotemporally dynamic cellular interactions. The use of cell transplantation between animals to track cell fate and to induce mismatches in the genetic, spatial, or temporal properties of donor and host cells is a powerful means of examining the nature of these interactions. Organisms such as chick and amphibians have made crucial contributions to our understanding of development and regeneration, respectively, in large part because of their amenability to transplantation. The power of these models, however, has been limited by low genetic tractability. Likewise, the major genetic model organisms have lower amenability to transplantation. 
The zebrafish is a major genetic model for development and regeneration, and while cell transplantation is common in zebrafish, it is generally limited to the transfer of undifferentiated cells at the early blastula and gastrula stages of development. In this article, we present a simple and robust method that extends the zebrafish transplantation window to any embryonic or larval stage between at least 1 and 7 days post fertilization. The precision of this approach allows for the transplantation of as little as one cell with near-perfect spatial and temporal resolution in both donor and host animals. While we highlight here the transplantation of embryonic and larval neurons for the study of nerve development and regeneration, respectively, this approach is applicable to a wide range of progenitor and differentiated cell types and research questions.

<meta charset="utf8"></head><body>著者スポットライト:発生および再生中のゼブラフィッシュ神経系における細胞接続性のマッピング

Here we present a protocol to transplant cells with high spatial and temporal resolution in zebrafish embryos and larvae at any stage between at least 1 and 7 days post fertilization.

ゼブラフィッシュの胚および幼生における高分解能細胞移植

Development and regeneration occur by a process of genetically encoded spatiotemporally dynamic cellular interactions. The use of cell transplantation ...

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胚ゼブラフィッシュにおけるヒト乳癌細胞の浸潤挙動

ライブゼブラフィッシュ胚における有糸分裂とダイナミクスを観察します

細胞非自律影響を研究するためのキメラゼブラフィッシュ胚における個々の網膜前駆細胞におけるトランスジェニック遺伝子発現のin vivoイメージング

リアルタイムで開発を可視化する多光子タイムラプスイメージング: ゼブラフィッシュ胚の神経堤細胞の可視化

細胞運動やゼブラフィッシュ胚における個々の神経細胞と神経堤細胞のアクチン細胞骨格のライブイメージング

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

開発ゼブラフィッシュの表皮から細胞の押出のライブイメージング

ゼブラフィッシュの胚および幼生における高分解能細胞移植

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胚ゼブラフィッシュにおけるヒト乳癌細胞の浸潤挙動

ライブゼブラフィッシュ胚における有糸分裂とダイナミクスを観察します

細胞非自律影響を研究するためのキメラゼブラフィッシュ胚における個々の網膜前駆細胞におけるトランスジェニック遺伝子発現のin vivoイメージング

リアルタイムで開発を可視化する多光子タイムラプス イメージング: ゼブラフィッシュ胚の神経堤細胞の可視化

細胞運動やゼブラフィッシュ胚における個々の神経細胞と神経堤細胞のアクチン細胞骨格のライブイメージング

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

透明ゼブラフィッシュ胚における腫瘍異種移植解析のための簡便、迅速、効果的な方法

開発ゼブラフィッシュの表皮から細胞の押出のライブイメージング

ゼブラフィッシュの胚および幼生における高分解能細胞移植

リアルタイムで開発を可視化する多光子タイムラプスイメージング: ゼブラフィッシュ胚の神経堤細胞の可視化