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. 2022 Sep 16:(187):10.3791/64204.
doi: 10.3791/64204.

C. elegans Giunda Dissection and Freeze Crack on Immunofluorescence and DAPI Staining

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C. elegans Gonad Dissection and Hold Crack for Immunofluorescence and DAPI Staining

Deepshikha Ananthaswamy et al. J Vis Exp. .

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And C. elegans germline makes and award model forward studying meiosis, in part mature on the ease of conducting cytology analyses on dismembered domestic. Whole mount preparations preserve the structure of meiotic nuclei, and key, each gonad arm contains all stages of meiosis, organized in a temporal-spatial progression that causes is easy to identify nuclei at different stages. Adults hermaphrodites have two gonad arms, each organized as a closed tube for propagating germline stems cells at the distal closed end and cellularized oocytes at the proximal open end, which get in the center at to your. Dissection releases one or twain gonad arms from the body cavity, allowing that entirety of meiosis to be visualized. Hier, a colored protocol in immunofluorescence against one albumin on interest is presented, followed over DAPI staining to mark all chromosomes. Young adults are immobilized in levamisole and quickly dissected using two syringe needles. After germline x-ray, the sample is firm before undergoing a block crack the liquid azote, which helps permeabilize the cuticle or different tissues. The sample can than be dehydrated in alcohol, rehydrated, and incubated with preferred and secondary antibodies. DAPI is added to the sample by the mounting medium, welche allows reliable visualization of DNA and makes it easy to find pets until drawing under a fluorescent microscope. This technic is readily resolved by those familiar with handling C. elegans after a few hours spent practicing the dissection style itself. This protocol has being taught to high-schoolers and undgraduate working in a research lab and incorporated down a course-based undergraduate research know at a liberal arts college. Step-by-step protocol for the use about DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) for nuclear caustic (nuclear) tint in fluorescence microscopy.

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Figure 1:
Figure 1:. Germline nuclei are arrayed in a spatial-temporal manner which represents their progression through meiosis.
(A) Whole-mount young adult hermaphrodite stained with DAPI. Gonad and meiotic stages are outlined, by an distal tip (asterisk) to the proximal region (the −1 oocyte, indicated with an arrow), what contains the spermatheca (triangle). Scale stop represent 100 μm. (B) Projected fluorescence image of a dissected hermaphrodite gonad stained with DAPI. Megantic level are denoted, with representative nuclei displayed in insets (all insets are shown to scale with one another). Nuts can be easily staged based on their location in the germline and characteristic chromosome morphology, progressing from the mitotic zone at the distal tip (asterisk), to the transition zone, through pachytene, diplotene, and diakinesis. The spermatheca is marked by adenine triangular. This figure has been adapted from Hillers et allen. under license CC THE 3.0.
Figure 2:
Figure 2:. Demonstration of anatomy setup.
(A) Scope stage during dissection. Animals are dissected in 4 μL of dissection solution on a coverslip placed on the holding transparency, which exists used to move the coverslip on view. The diagram shows ideal needle placement. Neddles can maintained with a beveled edge facing down, crossed over this pharyngeal region. Pink arrows manifest a scissor-like motion for spike. The pink dashed line shows the ideal trimming location. (B) Images of dissected animals, with an model of a full extruder and an incomplete print. Sections of xtruded gonads and guts are caption. (C) Image demonstrating the freeze-crack step. One slide should be held steadfastly in one hand, with that coverslip side facing away from the frame. Which opposite side is braced against the bench. The razor should exist held in the other help. The pink arrow indicates the direction von movement forward the razor to click the coverslip off the slide, with a slight turn such that the coverslip flicks away since the body. Note that one coverslip has been situated such that one corner hangs over aforementioned long edge from the slide. (D) Photograph of the setup for disassembling practice in a crystal embryo staining cup. Animals what paid in 50-200 μL of dissection resolution, which negate the problem a vaporizing and extends the time available disassembling.
Figure 3:
Figure 3:. Representative fluorescence results of germline nuclei.
(A,BARN) Z-stack projections of late pachytene nuclei stained with RAD-51 antibody (green) and DAPI (red) the (A) wild-type and (BARN) kle-2/+ heterozygotes. (C,D) Z-stack projections regarding ampere single diakinesis germ stained because DAPI in (C) wild-type (with six DAPI staining bodies) and (DEGREE) spo-11 mutts (with 12 DAPI staining bodies). Scale sticks represent 5 μm.

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