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Chemotaxis

Methods and Protocols

  • Includes cutting-edge methods and protocols
  • Provides step-by-step detail essential for reproducible results
  • Contains key notes and implementation advice from the experts

Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology (MIMB, volume 1407)

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Table of contents (27 protocols)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. In Situ Assays of Chemotropism During Yeast Mating

    • David E. Stone, Robert A. Arkowitz
    Pages 1-12
  3. Imaging Polarization in Budding Yeast

    • Allison W. McClure, Chi-Fang Wu, Sam A. Johnson, Daniel J. Lew
    Pages 13-23
  4. Migration of Dictyostelium discoideum to the Chemoattractant Folic Acid

    • Karl J. Aufderheide, Chris Janetopoulos
    Pages 25-39
  5. Mitochondrial Stress Tests Using Seahorse Respirometry on Intact Dictyostelium discoideum Cells

    • Sui Lay, Oana Sanislav, Sarah J. Annesley, Paul R. Fisher
    Pages 41-61
  6. Studying Chemoattractant Signal Transduction Dynamics in Dictyostelium by BRET

    • A. F. M. Tariqul Islam, Branden M. Stepanski, Pascale G. Charest
    Pages 63-77
  7. Chemotactic Blebbing in Dictyostelium Cells

    • Evgeny Zatulovskiy, Robert R. Kay
    Pages 97-105
  8. Employing Dictyostelium as an Advantageous 3Rs Model for Pharmacogenetic Research

    • Grant P. Otto, Marco Cocorocchio, Laura Munoz, Richard A. Tyson, Till Bretschneider, Robin S. B. Williams
    Pages 123-130
  9. Live Imaging of Border Cell Migration in Drosophila

    • Wei Dai, Denise J. Montell
    Pages 153-168
  10. shRNA-Induced Gene Knockdown In Vivo to Investigate Neutrophil Function

    • Abdul Basit, Wenwen Tang, Dianqing Wu
    Pages 169-177
  11. Studying Neutrophil Migration In Vivo Using Adoptive Cell Transfer

    • Yoshishige Miyabe, Nancy D. Kim, Chie Miyabe, Andrew D. Luster
    Pages 179-194
  12. Visualizing Cancer Cell Chemotaxis and Invasion in 2D and 3D

    • Olivia Susanto, Andrew J. Muinonen-Martin, Max Nobis, Robert H. Insall
    Pages 217-228
  13. 4D Tumorigenesis Model for Quantitating Coalescence, Directed Cell Motility and Chemotaxis, Identifying Unique Cell Behaviors, and Testing Anticancer Drugs

    • Spencer Kuhl, Edward Voss, Amanda Scherer, Daniel F. Lusche, Deborah Wessels, David R. Soll
    Pages 229-250
  14. An Experimental Model for Simultaneous Study of Migration of Cell Fragments, Single Cells, and Cell Sheets

    • Yao-Hui Sun, Yuxin Sun, Kan Zhu, Bruce W. Draper, Qunli Zeng, Alex Mogilner et al.
    Pages 251-272

About this book

This second edition expands on the first edition with new chapters describing methods for studying cell movement, molecular components involved in chemotaxis, spatiotemporal dynamics of signaling components, and quantitative modeling, as well as several updated chapters from the first edition. Various methods to investigate directional cell growth and movements are presented in Chapters 1-20. These chapters contains experimental procedures to visualize and measure migration behaviors of different kinds of organisms, including chemotropism in the budding yeast; cell growth and migration of D. discoideum; border cell migration in Drosophila; chemotaxis of mouse and human neutrophils; and HIV-induced T cell chemotactic response. Chemotaxis: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition also contains microscopy procedures for studying breast cancer cell migration, tumor cell invasion in vivo, and axon guidance. The book concludes with Chapters 21-27 describing methods that measure spatiotemporal dynamics of signaling components involved in chemotaxis; introduce imaging techniques, such as TRIF, BRET, FRET, and single-molecule microscopy; and mathematical models of experimentally generated chemoattractant gradients. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.

Cutting edge and thorough, Chemotaxis: Methods and Protocols, Second Edition is a valuable resource for anyone who is interested in the diverse methodologies that are propelling chemotaxis research forward. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Nat Inst of Allergy& Infectious Dis, NIH, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, Rockville, USA

    Tian Jin

  • National Institutes of Health, Nat Inst Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism, Rockville, USA

    Dale Hereld

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chemotaxis

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Protocols

  • Editors: Tian Jin, Dale Hereld

  • Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3480-5

  • Publisher: Humana New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Protocols

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3478-2Published: 07 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8059-8Published: 26 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-3480-5Published: 06 June 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1064-3745

  • Series E-ISSN: 1940-6029

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 425

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cell Biology

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