Journal: Frontiers in immunology
Article Title: Surfactant protein A alters endosomal trafficking of influenza A virus in macrophages.
doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.919800
Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 4 Differential reduction in uptake of endocytic cargo and binding of IAV PR8 to cell membrane in the presence of SP-A. Endocytic and binding experiments were performed using RAW264.7 cells (A-E) or isolated RAW264.7 membrane (F). Raw264.7 cells were incubated with Dextran 10,000 or transferrin conjugated with either the pH sensitive dye pHRodo (A, B) or FITC (C, D) in 1:1 DMEM in the presence or absence of SP-A, for 15 minutes at room temperature. The media were replaced with dye-free 1:1 DMEM and cells incubated with PHRodo- and FITC-labeled molecules were chased at 37°C for 10, 20, 30, and 45-minutes and 5, 10, 15, 30, and 45-minutes at 37°C to monitor rates of endosomal acidification and uptake, respectively. (A, B) SP-A does not alter acidification rate for either Dextran (A) or transferrin (B) tracked endosomes, N=6. (C) SP-A reduced level of FITC-Dextran over the first 5-minutes, whereas SP-A appeared to delay uptake of FITC-transferrin between 5-20-minutes reaching a similar plateau after 30-minutes. Differences were significant for FITC-Dextran only. N=6, *p<0.05. (D) and (E) SP-A suppresses uptake rate of Alexa Fluor488-labeled PR8. RAW264.7 cells were incubated with IAV with SP-A throughout infection or pre-treatment only. Cells were infected with Alexa Fluor488-labeled PR8 at MOI=15. The uptake of the labeled virus was monitored for 5, 15, 30, and 45-minutes at 37°C by flow cytometry. N=6 per condition per time point, **p < 0.005 and ****p < 0.001 for vehicle vs SP-A throughout; ++, p < 0.005 and +++, p<0.0005 for vehicle vs SP-A pretreatment; ##, p < 0.05 for SP-A throughout vs SP-A. (F) To assess differences in membrane binding, immulon-2 flat bottom plates were coated overnight at 4°C with 12.5 mg/ml of Raw264.7 cell membranes and then washed and incubated with PBS, 5 x 106 ffc of PR8, or 50 mg/ml SP-A for 2- hours at room temperature. The membranes were then washed, and incubated for an additional 2-hours with PR8, pre-formed PR8+SP-A complex, or SP-A to evaluate PR8 binding in a combination of conditions shown on the x-axis on panel F graph. Plates were washed and bound PR8 visualized spectrophotometrically using a polyclonal anti-HA antibody and HRP-conjugated anti-rabbit antibody as described in Materials and Methods. N=8, ****p < 0.00001, ***p < 0.001. Statistical differences were assessed by 2-way ANOVA.
Article Snippet: After washing, plates were incubated with 1:5000 dilutions of rabbit anti-SP-A polyclonal antibodies followed by washing and incubation with 1:10,000 dilution of an HRP-conjugated anti-rabbit antibody (BioRad Cat No 170-6515).
Techniques: Binding Assay, Membrane, Isolation, Incubation, Labeling, Infection, Virus, Cytometry