Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Cancer Research

Coculture Assays to Study Macrophage and Microglia Stimulation of Glioblastoma Invasion

Salvatore Coniglio¹, Ian Miller², Marc Symons³, Jeffrey E. Segall⁴

¹New Jersey Center for Science, Technology and Mathematics, Kean University, ²Department of Physiology and Medical Physics, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, ³The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at North Shore-LIJ, ⁴Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Understanding the malignant behavior of cancer requires creating accurate models of how tumor cells interact with components of the tumor microenvironment, such as macrophages. Here we describe two methods to study glioblastoma cell interaction with tumor associated macrophages and microglia where the effect on glioblastoma invasion is assessed.

Immunology and Infection

Visualizing the Effects of Sputum on Biofilm Development Using a Chambered Coverglass Model

Trevor Beaudoin¹, Sarah Kennedy², Yvonne Yau³, Valerie Waters⁴

¹Physiology and Experimental Medicine, Hospital for Sick Children, ²Department of Clinical Microbiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, ³Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, ⁴Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto

This protocol describes the visualization of biofilm development following exposure to host-factors using a slide chamber model. This model allows for direct visualization of biofilm development as well as analysis of biofilm parameters using computer software programs.

Immunology and Infection

Dissecting Multi-protein Signaling Complexes by Bimolecular Complementation Affinity Purification (BiCAP)

Jordan F. Hastings¹, Jeremy Z.R. Han¹, Robert F. Shearer^1,2, Sean P. Kennedy^1,3, Mary Iconomou^1,4, Darren N. Saunders⁵, David R. Croucher^1,6,7

¹The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, ²Ubiquitin Signaling Group, Protein Signaling Program, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, ³RCSI Molecular Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, ⁴Department of Epigenetics, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, ⁵School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, ⁶St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School, University of New South Wales, ⁷School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin

This manuscript describes the protocol for Bimolecular Complementation Affinity Purification (BiCAP). This novel method facilitates the specific isolation and downstream proteomic characterization of any two interacting proteins, while excluding un-complexed individual proteins as well as complexes formed with competing binding partners.