Krutzik Peter O, Trejo Angelica, Schulz Kenneth R, Nolan Garry P
Baxter Laboratory in Stem Cell Biology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2011;699:179-202. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61737-950-5_9.
Phospho-specific flow cytometry, or phospho flow, measures the phosphorylation state of intracellular proteins at the single cell level. Many phosphorylation events can be analyzed simultaneously in each cell, along with cell surface markers, enabling complex biochemical signaling networks to be resolved in heterogeneous cell populations. The method has been applied to many diverse areas of biology, including the characterization of signaling pathways in normal immune responses to antigenic stimulation and microbial challenge, alteration of signaling networks that occur in cancer and autoimmune diseases, and high-throughput, high-content drug discovery. In this chapter, we provide detailed experimental protocols for performing phospho flow in cell lines, Ficoll-purified peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and whole blood. These protocols are applicable to both human and murine samples. We also provide methods for the validation of surface marker antibodies for use in phospho flow. Finally, we discuss data analysis methods, in particular, how to quantify changes in phosphorylation and how to visualize the large data sets that can result from experiments in primary cells.
磷酸化特异性流式细胞术,即磷酸化流式分析,可在单细胞水平测量细胞内蛋白质的磷酸化状态。在每个细胞中,许多磷酸化事件可与细胞表面标志物同时进行分析,从而能够解析异质性细胞群体中的复杂生化信号网络。该方法已应用于生物学的许多不同领域,包括对抗抗原刺激和微生物挑战的正常免疫反应中信号通路的表征、癌症和自身免疫性疾病中发生的信号网络改变,以及高通量、高内涵药物发现。在本章中,我们提供了在细胞系、经Ficoll纯化的外周血单核细胞和全血中进行磷酸化流式分析的详细实验方案。这些方案适用于人类和小鼠样本。我们还提供了用于磷酸化流式分析的表面标志物抗体验证方法。最后,我们讨论数据分析方法,特别是如何量化磷酸化变化以及如何可视化原代细胞实验可能产生的大量数据集。