2. M ATERIALS UND M ETHODS
2.1 M ATERIALS
2.1.1DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT
TABLE 2.1DEVICES AND EQUIPMENT
DEVICE/EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER
Agarose gel chamber Biofuge 15
CASY®-1 Cell counter Diavert microscope
Electrophoresis power supply
Emax microplate spectrophotometer Flow cytometer FACSCalibur™
Flow cytometer/sorter FACSAria™ III Gel photo-imaging system
Gel UV-imaging system Hera Cell 240 Incubator Hettich Rotanta Centrifuge Manual pipetting aid (Pipetus®) Micropipettes (10µl; 100µl; 1000µl) Multifuge 1 L-R
Skanwasher 400 Microplate Washer Thermocycler Eppendorf
Vortexer Reax 2000
OWL, Weilheim Heraeus, Hanau
Schärfe System, Reutlingen Leitz, Bielefeld
EC 150 – E-C Apparatus Cooperation American Laboratory Trading, USA Molecular Devices, Ismaning Becton Dickinson, Heidelberg Becton Dickinson, Heidelberg Mitsubishi, Ratingen
Fröbel, Lindau Heraeus, Hanau
Hettich Lab Technology, Tuttlingen Hirschmann, Eberstadt
Eppendorf, Hamburg Heraeus, Hanau
Molecular Devices, Ismaning Eppendorf, Hamburg
Heidolph, Schwabach
Used devices and equipment are listed with name and location of manufacturer.
55 2.1.2CHEMICALS
TABLE 2.2CHEMICALS
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURER
Ethanol
Ethidium bromide
Ethylenediaminetetraacetate (EDTA) H2O2
H2SO4
KCL KH2PO4
Isopropanol
NaCl
Na2HPO4 x 2H20
PBS def without Ca2+, Mg2+
Sodium azide (NaN3) Tween® 20
Ultra pure water
β-Mercaptoethanol 50 mM
Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Biochrom AG, Berlin Roth, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Biochrom AG, Berlin Gibco, Karlsruhe
Used chemicals listed with name and location of manufacturer.
2.1.3MEDIA AND SUPPLEMENTED MEDIA
TABLE 2.3MEDIA
MEDIUM MANUFACTURER
OptiMEM (with L-glutamine) RPMI 1640 (with Hepes)
Gibco, Karlsruhe PAA, Cölbe
Used media listed with name and location of manufacturer.
56 TABLE 2.4SUPPLEMENTED MEDIA
SUPPLEMENTED MEDIUM SUPPLEMENTS
OptiMEMSuppl.
RPMISuppl.
Spleen DC isolation medium
500 ml OptiMEM (with L-Glutamine) 1 % FCS
100 U/ml Penicillin 100 µg/ml Streptomycin 0.05 mM β-Mercaptoethanol 500 ml RPMI 1640 (with Hepes) 10 % FCS
2 mM L-Glutamin 100 U/ml Penicillin 100 µg/ml Streptomycin 0.05 mM β-Mercaptoethanol 500 ml RPMI 1640 (with Hepes) 1 mg/ml Collagenase D
50 µg/ml DNase
Used supplemented media listed with supplements.
2.1.4MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL REAGENTS
TABLE 2.5MOLECULAR BIOLOGICAL REAGENTS
REAGENT MANUFACTURER
6x LoadingDye
Agarose (Electrophoresis grade) Bovine serum albumin (BSA) Collagenase D
DNase
DOTAP Liposomal Transfection Reagent Dulbecco’s PBS
Fetal bovine serum (FBS) Flt3L
Generuler 1 kb DNA Ladder Plus
Fermentas, St. Leon Rot Invitrogen, Karlsruhe Roth, Karlsruhe Roche, Mannheim Roche, Mannheim Roth, Karlsruhe PAA, Cölbe Gibco, Karlsruhe
Cell culture supernatant, BMFZ Marburg
Fermentas, St. Leon Rot
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GM-CSF GM-CSF
Lipofectamine 2000 Reagent L-glutamine 200 mM
LSM 1077 Separation Medium (Ficoll) M-CSF
o-Phenyl-Diamin (OPD) 20 mg tablet Penicillin/Streptamycin
Proteinase K
Recombinant murine IFN-α (Standard) Recombinant murine IL-6 (Standard) Streptavidin-POD
Taq PCR Master Mix Kit
Fermentas, St. Leon Rot PeproTech, Rocky Hill, USA Cell culture supernatant, BMFZ Marburg
Invitrogen, Karlsruhe PAA, Cölbe
PAA, Cölbe
PeproTech, Rocky Hill, USA Sigma-Aldrich, München PAA, Cölbe
Fermentas, St. Leon Rot HyCult Biotech, Uden, NL R&D Systems, Wiesbaden Roche, Mannheim
Qiagen, Hilden
Used molecular biological reagents listed with name and location of manufacturer.
2.1.5BUFFERS AND SOLUTIONS
TABLE 2.6BUFFERS AND SOLUTIONS
BUFFER/SOLUTION COMPONENTS
ELISA blocking buffer 1%
ELISA substrate buffer
ELISA washing buffer
10 g BSA
0.5 ml Tween® 20 Ad 1 L PBS def.
7.3 g C6H8O7
11,87 g Na2HPO4 x 2H2O Ad 1 L ddH20
500 ml 10x PBS 2.5 ml Tween® 20 Ad 5 L ddH2O
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FACS sorting buffer
PBS 10x
TAE DNA-gel running buffer 50x
Tail lysing buffer
PBS def.
2 % FCS 0.01 % NaN3
2 mM EDTA PBS def.
2 % FCS 2 mM EDTA 10 g KCl 10 g KH2PO4
400 g NaCl
57.5 g Na2HPO4 x 2H2O Ad 5 L ddH20
242 g Tris-Base
57.1 ml concentrated CH3COOH 100 ml 0.5 M EDTA (pH 8) 10 mM Tris HCL pH 8.0 25 mM EDTA
100 mM NaCl 0.5 % SDS (10 %)
Used buffers and solutions listed with required components.
2.1.6MOUSE STRAINS
TABLE 2.7MOUSE STRAINS
MOUSE STRAIN SOURCE
C57/Bl6 (wild type mice) HoxA9 knockout mice on C57/Bl6 background
Animal facility BMFZ Marburg Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dimmeler, Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
Used mouse strains and their source.
59 2.1.7ANTIBODIES
TABLE 2.8ELISAANTIBODIES
ELISAANTIBODY MANUFACTURER
Goat IgG biotinylated anti-mouse IL-6 PAb (Detection-Ab)
Goat POD-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG Mab (3.Ab)
Rabbit anti-mouse IFN-α PAb (Detection-Ab)
Rat IgG1 anti-mouse IFN-α MAb (Capture-Ab)
Rat IgG1 anti-mouse IL-6 MAb (Capture-Ab)
R&D Systems, Wiesbaden
Jackson ImmunoResearch, Suffolk, UK
PBL, Piscataway, NJ, USA PBL, Piscataway, NJ, USA R&D Systems, Wiesbaden
Used ELISA antibodies listed with name and location of manufacturer.
TABLE 2.9FACSANTIBODIES
FACSANTIBODY MANUFACTURER
ChromePure Rat IgG (Fc blocking) Rat anti-mouse BST2-FITC
Rat anti-mouse B220-APC Rat anti-mouse B220-FITC Rat anti-mouse CD11b-APC Rat anti-mouse CD11b-FITC Rat anti-mouse CD11c-APC Rat anti-mouse CD11c-PE Rat anti-mouse Flt3-PE Rat anti-mouse F4/80-FITC Rat anti-mouse Ly6C-PE
Jackson ImmunoResearch, Suffolk, UK
eBioscience, San Diego, USA BD Pharmingen, Heidelberg BD Pharmingen, Heidelberg eBioscience, San Diego, USA eBioscience, San Diego, USA eBioscience, San Diego, USA eBioscience, San Diego, USA BD Pharmingen, Heidelberg eBioscience, San Diego, USA Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch Gladbach
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Rat anti-mouse MHC-II-PE Rat anti-mouse SiglecH-FITC TO-PRO®-3 iodide
eBioscience, San Diego, USA eBioscience, San Diego, USA eBioscience, San Diego, USA Invitrogen, Karlsruhe
Used FACS antibodies listed with name and location of manufacturer.
2.1.8STIMULI
TABLE 2.10STIMULI
STIMULUS SEQUENCE 5’-3’/DESCRIPTION MANUFACTURER
LPS
ODN AP-1 PD ODN 1668 PD ODN 1720 PD ODN 2216 PS POLY I:C
RNA 40 PD R848
Pam-3-Cys
Lipopolysaccharide from Escherichia coli GCTTGATGACTCAGCCGGAA
TCCATGACGTTCCTGATGCT TCCATGAGCTTCCTGATGCT
GsGsGGGACGATCGTCGsGsGsGsGsGsG Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid
GCCCGUCUGUUGUGUGACUC
Imidazoquinoline compound Resiquimod -selective synthetic ligand for murine TLR7 and human TLR7/8
Pam3CysSerLys4 – synthetic tripalmitoylated lipopeptide which activates TLR2
DIFCO, Detroit, USA
TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin
TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin
TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin
TIB MOLBIOL, Berlin
InvivoGen, San Diego USA GE Healthcare IBA Biologics, Göttingen InvivoGen, San Diego USA InvivoGen, San Diego USA
Used stimuli listed with sequence or description and name as well as location of manufacturer. ‘G’ – guanine; ‘C’ – cytosine; ‘A’ – adenine; ‘T’ – thymine; ‘U’ – uracil; ’s’ – phosphorothioate (PS) linkage.
61 2.1.9PRIMER
TABLE 2.11PRIMER
PRIMER SEQUENCE 5’-3’ MANUFACTURER
hoxa9-fp hoxa9-rp MC1neo-rp
CGCTGGAACTGGAGAAGGAGTTTCTG ATCCTGCGGTTCTGGAACCAGATC TCTATCGCCTTCTTGACGAGTTC
Metabion, Martinsried Metabion, Martinsried Metabion, Martinsried
Used primer listed with sequence and name and location of manufacturer. ‘G’ – guanine; ‘C’ – cytosine;
‘A’ – adenine; ‘T’ – thymine.
2.1.10CONSUMPTION ITEMS
TABLE 2.12CONSUMPTION ITEMS
ITEMS MANUFACTURER
24 G cannula
96-well ELISA MaxiSorp microplate 96-well flat bottom plate
96-well round bottom plate Cell culture dishes BD 10 cm
Cell culture dishes BD Primaria 10 cm Cell culture dishes Nunclon surface 10 cm Cell strainer 70 µm Nylon
FACS tubes sterile 5 ml snap cap (12 x 75 mm)
FACS tubes 1.3 ml (8.5 x 44 mm) Petri dishes 10cm
Pipette barrier tips (10 µl; 100 µl; 1000 µl)
BD Microlance, Heidelberg NUNC, Roskilde, Denmark Greiner, Frickenhausen Greiner, Frickenhausen BD Falcon, Heidelberg BD Falcon, Heidelberg NUNC, Roskilde, Denmark BD Falcon, Heidelberg
Fisher Scientific, Pittsburgh, USA BD Falcon, Heidelberg
Greiner, Frickenhausen Greiner, Frickenhausen
Sorenson, Salt Lake City, USA
62 Pipette tips (10 µl; 100 µl; 1000µl)
Pipette tips for multipette® (25 µl; 50 µl; 250 µl)
Plastic pipettes (5 ml; 10 ml; 25 ml) Reaction tubes (0.5 ml; 1.5 ml; 2 ml) Reaction tubes (15 ml; 50 ml)
Syringe 10 ml
Topseal A for 96-well microplates
Greiner, Frickenhausen Eppendorf, Hamburg Greiner, Frickenhausen Sarstedt, Nümbrecht Greiner, Frickenhausen B. Braun, Melsungen
PerkinElmer, Zaventem, Belgium
Used consumption items listed with name and location of manufacturer.
2.1.11SOFTWARE
TABLE 2.13SOFTWARE
SOFTWARE MANUFACTURER
BD FACSDivaTM 7.0 (for Windows)
CellQuest Pro, version 5.2.1 (for Macintosh)
EndNote Web
FlowJo, version 10.0.7 (for Windows)
Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, and 2013 GraphPad Prism 6.05
SigmaPlot 10.0 SoftMax Pro V5
BD Bioscience, San Jose, USA BD Bioscience, San Jose, USA Thomson Reuters, Carlsbad, USA Treestar, San Carlos, USA
Microsoft, Redmond, USA
GraphPad Software, La Jolla, USA Scientific Solutions, Lausanne, Swiss Molecular Devices, Ismaning
Used software listed with name and location of manufacturer.
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