Name: tumor allotransplantation in drosophila melanogaster with a programmable auto-nanoliter injector
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We thank former lab members Dr. Sheng-An Yang and Mr. Juan-Martin Portilla for their contribution in developing this protocol. We are grateful for Dr. Yan Song&#39;s lab at Peking University School of Life Sciences for sharing their protocol on manual allotransplantation. We also thank Mr. Calder Ellsworth and Mr. Everest Shapiro for critical reading of the manuscript.
WMD received funding (GM072562, CA224381, CA227789) for this work from National Institute of Health (https://www.nih.gov/)&#160;and funding (IOS-155790) from the National Science Foundation (htps://nsf.gov/).&#160;The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

1. Preparation of SG imaginal ring tumor
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	<li>Cross adult flies with genotypes of UAS-NICD (Male: 10-15 flies) and Act-Gal4, UAS-GFP/CyO; tub-Gal80ts (Virgin female: 10-15 flies) and allow them to breed for 1 day at 18 &#176;C. The selected adult flies should be 5-9 days old to ensure high fertility.</li>
	<li>Allow the adult flies to lay eggs in the fly food contained in vials for 24 h at 18 &#730;C, then remove the adult flies. 
	NOTE: Fly food is prepared using the standard cor...

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Tumor allotransplantation can help researchers address certain problems that arise during Drosophila tumor growth and progression. One such challenge is the circumvention of premature deaths of tumor-bearing larvae or adults during primary tumor culture12. In this context, continued tumor allotransplantation allows tumors to grow indefinitely, which facilitates longitudinal studies of tumor growth, metastasis, and evolution. Tumor allotransplantation is also useful for assessing various a...

This protocol provides a step-by-step guidance for allotransplantation of Drosophila larval salivary gland (SG) imaginal ring tumors into abdomens of adult hosts using an auto-nanoliter injection apparatus (e.g., Nanoject). This protocol also provides directions for the subsequent re-allografting of tumors into new generations of adult hosts, which provides opportunities for continued longitudinal study of tumor characteristics, such as tumor evolution and tumor-host interactions. The protocol can also be applied toward drug screening experiments.
This method was developed to improve upon the efficacy of performing tumor allotransplantation in Drosophila using manual injectors1, which are often inconsistent in their suction and injection forces, leading to suboptimal results for tumor allotransplantation. An autoinjector apparatus provides better control and can result in lower rates of fly mortality post-allograft. A trained operator could achieve a host-survival rate of over 90% with the autoinjector, compared to around 80% when the manual injector was used1. The overall tumor acquisition rate is 60%-80% at day 8-12 post-allograft. The average injection time has also been improved from 30-40 s per fly using a manual injector to 20-25 s per fly using the autoinjector.
This protocol is among the first few protocols to use the autoinjector apparatus in Drosophila tumor allotransplantation. A recent study also used the autoinjector for allotransplantation of tumorous neural stem cells2. Previously, the autoinjector apparatus was used in Drosophila to study bacterial virulence3, parasitic infections and host defense4, as well as screening for bioactivity of different compounds5. Our protocol adapts the autoinjector apparatus for tumor injection use and seeks to provide Drosophila researchers with higher quality and more consistent results while saving them considerable time. This protocol can not only be used for the allotransplantation of tumors, but can also be tailored to the allotransplantation of wildtype and mutant tissues of similar caliber6.
The Drosophila NICD tumor used in this protocol was first introduced by Yang et al.7 in the SG imaginal ring transitional zone, a &#34;tumor hotspot&#34; that exhibits high levels of endogenous Janus Kinase/Signal Transducer and Activators of Transcription (JAK-STAT), and c-Jun N-terminal Kinase (JNK) activity. Additionally, the transition zone has high levels of matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP1)7, which makes this region particularly conducive to tumorigenesis. Notch pathway activation through NICD overexpression alone is sufficient to consistently initiate tumor formation. These tumors can be subsequently allotransplanted to allow investigation of a broad range of topics, including tumor cell division, invasion, and tumor-host interactions.

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			<td>Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope</td>
			<td>Zeiss</td>
			<td>LSM 980</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Zeiss LSM 980&#34;</td>
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			<td>Cornmeal Fly Food</td>
			<td>Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center</td>
			<td>N/A</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;BDSC Standard Cornmeal Food&#34;</td>
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			<td>Dissection Needle (30Gx1/2)</td>
			<td>BD PrecisionGlide</td>
			<td>305106</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Dissection Plate</td>
			<td>Fisher Scientific</td>
			<td>12-565B</td>
			<td></td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Fly Tape</td>
			<td>Fisherbrand</td>
			<td>159015A</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Fluoresence Adapter for Stero Microscope</td>
			<td>Electron Microscopy Sciences</td>
			<td>SFA-UV</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;NightSea Fluorescence Adapter&#34;</td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Fluoresence Microscope</td>
			<td>Zeiss</td>
			<td>495015-0001-000</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Zeiss Stereo Discovery.V8&#34;</td>
		</tr>
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			<td>Forceps</td>
			<td>Fine Science Tools</td>
			<td>11251-10</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Dumont #5 Forceps&#34;&#160;</td>
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			<td>Glass Capillary (3.5&#39;&#39;)</td>
			<td>Drummond</td>
			<td>3-000-203-G/X</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Glue</td>
			<td>Elmer</td>
			<td>E305</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Elmer Washabale Clear Glue&#34;</td>
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			<td>Light Microscope</td>
			<td>Zeiss</td>
			<td>435063-9010-100</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Zeiss Stemi 305&#34;</td>
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			<td>Micropipette Puller</td>
			<td>World Precision Instruments</td>
			<td>PUL-1000</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Four Step Micropipette Puller&#34;</td>
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			<td>Nanoject Apparatus</td>
			<td>Drummond</td>
			<td>3-000-204</td>
			<td>Also known as &#34;Nanoject II Auto-Nanoliter Injector&#34;</td>
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			<td>Schneider&#39;s Medium</td>
			<td>ThermoFisher</td>
			<td>21720001</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Syringe (27G x1/2)</td>
			<td>BD PrecisionGlide</td>
			<td>305109</td>
			<td></td>
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			<td>Vial</td>
			<td>Fisherbrand</td>
			<td>AS507</td>
			<td></td>
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tumor allotransplantation in drosophila melanogaster with a programmable auto-nanoliter injector

This protocol describes the allotransplantation of tumors in Drosophila melanogaster using an auto-nanoliter injection apparatus. With the use of an autoinjector apparatus, trained operators can achieve more efficient and consistent transplantation results compared to those obtained using a manual injector. Here, we cover topics in a chronological fashion: from the crossing of Drosophila lines, to the induction and dissection of the primary tumor, transplantation of the primary tumor into a new adult host and continued generational transplantation of the tumor for extended studies. As a demonstration, here we use Notch intracellular domain (NICD) overexpression induced salivary gland imaginal ring tumors for generational transplantation. These tumors can first be reliably induced in a transition-zone microenvironment within larval salivary gland imaginal rings, then allografted and cultured in vivo to study continued tumor growth, evolution, and metastasis. This allotransplantation method can be useful in potential drug screening programs, as well as for studying tumor-host interactions.

Here, we carried out generational allotransplantation of SG imaginal ring tumors using the nanoliter injection autoinjector apparatus and conducted subsequent tumor live-imaging with a confocal laser scanning microscope, which allowed for a deeper dive into topics of tumor growth, tumor cell migration, and tumor-host interactions. When mounting flies, glue them to a microscope slide and restrain them via a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) block11.
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