Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: High mannose N-glycans on red blood cells as phagocytic ligands, mediating both sickle cell anaemia and resistance to malaria
doi: 10.1101/2020.11.26.399402
Figure Lengend Snippet: a) Oxidized RBCs stained with Cell Trace Far Red (CTFR, red) are incubated with HMDM for 3 hours, washed with PBS, permeabilized and stained for nucleus (DAPI, blue). Immunofluorescence. Scale bar shown. b) Oxidized RBCs stained with Cell Trace Far Red (CTFR, red) are incubated with HMDM for 3 hours, washed with PBS, and counter-stained prior to immunofluorescence microscopy with anti-GPA-FITC antibody (green) to identify RBCs that are not sequestered inside macrophages: GPA-FITC only (i), GPA-FITC and CTFR (ii), bright field only (iii) and merged (iv). CTFR (red) single positive cells are counted as having been phagocytosed (letter E). Double positive (CTFR and GPA) cells are not counted as having been phagocytosed, but bound to the macrophage cell surface. Scale bar 50 μm scale as shown. c) Mannose receptor (CD206) expression assessed by microscopy for human monocyte derived macrophages treated with siRNA or scramble control. Mann-Whitney. d) Percentage surface binding of HbSS RBCs assessed by microscopy for human monocyte derived macrophages treated with siRNA or scramble control. e) Quantified phagocytosis beads by HMDM with and without glycan polymer blockade, applied in the same way and the same concentration as for RBC phagocytosis experiments.
Article Snippet: Human mannose receptor (CD206) siRNA (UACUGUCGCAGGUAUCAUCCA) or a non-targeting siRNA sequence control (4390843, Life Technologies) were transfected into HMDM (RNAiMax, Life Technologies) (n = 4 donors for all siRNA experiments).
Techniques: Staining, Incubation, Immunofluorescence, Microscopy, Expressing, Derivative Assay, MANN-WHITNEY, Binding Assay, Concentration Assay