Name: high-throughput assay to phenotype salmonella enterica typhimurium association, invasion, and replication in macrophages
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This project was supported partly by a grant for National Institutes of Health NIAID (for A.J.B. and L.G.A., R01 AI076246). The Salmonella mutant collection was partly supported by National Institutes of Health grants (for M.M., U01 A152237-05, R01 AI07397-01, R01 AI039557-11 and R01 AI075093-01), partly by National Institutes of Health grants (for H.A.P, R21 AI083964-01, 1R0 1AI083646-01, 1R56AI077645, R01 AI075093). We thank Steffen Prowollik for replica plating and confirming the mutants in the collection.

1. Murine Macrophage RAW264.7 Cell Culture
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	<li>Grow low passage number murine macrophage cells, RAW264.7 (The ATCC&#174; Number, TIB-71) in a T-75 cell culture flask vented filter cap in Dulbecco&#39;s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 0.5% NaHCO3, and 1% 100x Nonessential amino acids (NEAA) at 37&#176;C, in a 5% CO2 incubator.</li>
	<li>Once cells reach a 60-80% confluence in the flask, use a cell scraper to harvest cells, and count the ...

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The Gentamicin protection assay is widely used to study the invasion and replication of intracellular bacterial pathogens inside host cell, and it is especially an important biological tool for studying pathogens, like Salmonella, whose invasion is the prerequisite step for establishing infection1. The standard Gentamicin protection assay in Salmonella research community is implemented in 24-well culture dish5. Though the use of 48 or even 96-well plates were discussed before for h...

Nontyphoidal Salmonella are important causes of enteric diseases in all vertebrates. Salmonellosis in humans is among the top bacterial food-borne diseases1. Characterization of the molecular mechanisms that underpin the interactions of Salmonella with their animal hosts is mainly achieved through the study of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium (STM) in tissue culture and animal models of infection. Gaining insights in STM-host interactions will help us understand how Salmonella survive and grow inside host cells. The first challenge in studying these interactions is to identify as many participating factors as possible from both host and pathogen, but these endeavors are largely obstructed by the significant difficulties of dealing with two independent complex biological systems simultaneously, i.e., host and Salmonella, under physiological conditions. Additionally, the large repertoire of Salmonella and host genes potentially encoding factors involved in host interactions require high-throughput biological platform to tackle this challenge.
A modified, standardized assay to phenotype Salmonella association, invasion&#160;and replication in macrophages with high-throughput capacity was developed to examine a large set of genes likely engaging in Salmonella-host interactions. The Gentamicin protection assay was developed in 19732, but was first thoroughly described by Elsinghorst in 19943,4. It has now become a standard tool for studying many intracellular bacterial pathogens ex vivo, including Salmonella5,6. Internalized bacteria avoid being killed by some antibiotics, like Gentamicin, that cannot penetrate eukaryotic cells3. By taking advantage of this phenomenon, the Gentamicin protection assay measures the survival and growth of intracellular bacterial pathogens. Three events during the infection, i.e., association with eukaryotic cells, invasion and replication, can be evaluated for intracellular bacterial pathogens based on the time interval between infection, Gentamicin treatment, and further incubation (Figure&#160;1). Eukaryotic cell lines provide a physiological environment that is less complex than relevant animal models for host-pathogen interaction studies.
The Gentamicin protection assay is an appropriate platform to study STM-host interactions, but the standard assay in a 24-well culture dish has low-throughput capacity. Computational analysis of in vivo datasets identified 149 Salmonella gene products that are predicted to interact with approximately 300 host gene products (unpublished data). The standard Gentamicin protection assay does not have the capacity to phenotype this number of mutants efficiently.
In addition, the Gentamicin protection assay can theoretically detect the invasion of even a single bacterium. Because of this inherent sensitivity, the raw data are susceptible to technical variances when repeated at different times. The internal controls and relative data presentation after normalization are essential for meaningful interpretation of the results. Given these considerations, a modified, standardized Gentamicin protection assay was developed to enhance testing capacity and increase precision.
The following protocol is detailed and illustrated to perform the modified Gentamicin protection assay using 96-well culture dishes and the murine macrophage RAW264.7 cell line. Compared to the standard protocol in 24-well culture dishes, the modified protocol has the following advantages: 1) Using 96-well culture dishes allows up to 10 different mutant strains to be phenotyped including internal positive and negative controls with sufficient statistical power; 2) The variance of results is significantly reduced, because the mutant strains are tested in the same culture dish and at the same time; 3) The use of multichannel pipettes increases throughput while reducing operator fatigue. Lastly, comparing to 24-well culture dishes, concerns of less host cells per well in 96-well culture dish were addressed through protocol optimization and standardization.
In summary, the modified, standardized assay to in vitro phenotype Salmonella or other bacterial association, invasion and replication in phagocytic cells increases precision and achieves high-throughput capacity while reducing operator fatigue.

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			<td height="41" style="height:41px;width:173px;">100X Non-Essential Amino Acids</td>
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high-throughput assay to phenotype salmonella enterica typhimurium association, invasion, and replication in macrophages

Salmonella species are zoonotic pathogens and leading causes of food borne illnesses in humans and livestock1. Understanding the mechanisms underlying Salmonella-host interactions are&#160;important to elucidate the molecular pathogenesis of Salmonella infection. The Gentamicin protection assay to phenotype Salmonella association, invasion and replication in phagocytic cells was adapted to allow high-throughput screening to define the roles of deletion mutants of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium in host interactions using RAW 264.7 murine macrophages. Under this protocol, the variance in measurements is significantly reduced compared to the standard protocol, because wild-type and multiple mutant strains can be tested in the same culture dish and at the same time. The use of multichannel pipettes increases the throughput and enhances precision. Furthermore, concerns related to using less host cells per well in 96-well culture dish were addressed. Here, the protocol of the modified in vitro Salmonella invasion assay using phagocytic cells was successfully employed to phenotype 38 individual Salmonella deletion mutants for association, invasion and intracellular replication. The in vitro phenotypes are presented, some of which were subsequently confirmed to have in vivo phenotypes in an animal model. Thus, the modified, standardized assay to phenotype Salmonella association, invasion and replication in macrophages with high-throughput capacity could be utilized more broadly to study bacterial-host interactions.

See representative results (Figure 2) after the data are plotted based on the modified phagocytic cell invasion assay. The data include five different strains, WT, &#916;invA, &#916;phoP, mutant A, and mutant B. &#916;invA,&#160;known to be defective for invasion, and &#916;phoP known to be defective for replication8, are used as positive controls to assess the experimental validity. Indeed, in the modified invasion assay, a &#916;invA mutant is int...

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High-throughput Assay to Phenotype Salmonella enterica Typhimurium Association, Invasion, and Replication in Macrophages

A high-throughput assay to in vitro phenotype Salmonella or other bacterial association, invasion, and replication in phagocytic cells with high-throughput capacity was developed. The method was employed to evaluate Salmonella gene knockout mutant strains for their involvements in host-pathogen interactions.

High-throughput Assay to Phenotype Salmonella enterica Typhimurium Association, Invasion, and Replication in Macrophages

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