Journal: Frontiers in Immunology
Article Title: Macrophage subpopulation identity in Drosophila is modulated by apoptotic cell clearance and related signalling pathways
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1310117
Figure Lengend Snippet: Croquemort and Draper do not affect plasmatocyte subpopulations. (A-D’) representative maximum projection images of the ventral midline of repo -only single mutant embryos (A–D) and crq;repo double mutant embryos (A’-D’) at stage 15. Plasmatocytes labelled via Fascin staining (magenta) while subpopulation plasmatocytes are labelled via VT-GAL4 driving expression of UAS-Stinger (green). Anterior is up in all images, scale bars denote 10µm. (E) scatterplot showing proportion of plasmatocytes within subpopulations. n= 18, 17, 20, 8, 17, 12, 17 and 17, respectively. Statistical analyses carried out via unpaired t -tests. (F-I’) representative maximum projection images of the ventral midline of repo -only single mutant embryos (F–I) and repo mutant embryos expressing UAS-drpr-II specifically in plasmatocytes (F’-I’) at stage 15. All plasmatocytes labelled via srpHemo-H2A-3x-mCherry, while subpopulation plasmatocytes are labelled via VT-GAL4 lines driving expression from UAS-Stinger. Anterior is up in all images, scale bars denote 10µm. (J) scatterplot showing proportion of plasmatocytes within subpopulations. n =14, 19, 17, 13, 17, 14, 16 and 14, respectively. Statistical analyses in (E, J) carried out via unpaired t -tests.
Article Snippet: For Fascin staining, embryos were treated with a mouse anti-Fascin primary antibody (sn7c; Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; used at 1:500), with Alexa fluor 568 goat anti-mouse used as a secondary antibody (A11031, Life Technologies; 1:200).
Techniques: Mutagenesis, Staining, Expressing