Polarization of M1 and M2 Human Monocyte-Derived Cells and Analysis with Flow Cytometry upon Mycobacterium tuberculosis InfectionAkhirunnesa Mily 1,2, Sadaf Kalsum 1, Marco Giulio Loreti 1, Rokeya Sultana Rekha 3, Jagadeeswara Rao Muvva 1, Magda Lourda 1,4, Susanna Brighenti 1
1Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM), Department of Medicine Huddinge, ANA Futura, Karolinska Institutet, 2Infectious Diseases Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, 3Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine (Labmed), ANA Futura, Karolinska Institutet, 4Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet
This protocol provides a method to study Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in human M1- or M2-polarized macrophages based on differentiation of peripheral-blood-monocytes to macrophage-like cells that are infected with the GFP-labeled virulent strain H37Rv, and analyzed with flow cytometry using a 10-color panel including expression of selected M1/M2 markers.
