Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Huffington Center on Aging, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Methods Mol Biol. 2020;2144:1-6. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0592-9_1.
The replicative aging of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been a useful model for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of the aging process. Traditionally, the replicative lifespan (RLS) is measured by manually dissecting mother cells from daughter cells, which is a very tedious process. Since 2012, several microfluidic systems have been developed to automate the dissection process, significantly accelerating RLS determination. Here, we describe a detailed protocol of RLS measurement using a ommercially available microfluidic system based on the HYAA chip design, which enables data collection of up to 8000 cells in a single experiment.
酿酒酵母的复制性衰老一直是解析衰老过程分子机制的有用模型。传统上,通过手动从子细胞中分离母细胞来测量复制寿命(RLS),这是一个非常繁琐的过程。自 2012 年以来,已经开发了几种微流控系统来自动化分离过程,显著加快了 RLS 的确定速度。在这里,我们描述了一种使用基于 HYAA 芯片设计的商业微流控系统进行 RLS 测量的详细方案,该系统可在单个实验中收集多达 8000 个细胞的数据。