We describe a single-cell high-throughput assay to measure cytotoxicity of T cells when incubated with tumor target cells. This method employs a dense, elastomeric array of sub-nanoliter wells (~100,000 wells/array) to spatially confine the T cells and target cells at defined ratios and is coupled to fluorescence microscopy to monitor effector-target conjugation and subsequent apoptosis.
Liadi, I., Roszik, J., Romain, G., Cooper, L. J., Varadarajan, N. Quantitative High-throughput Single-cell Cytotoxicity Assay For T Cells. J. Vis. Exp. (72), e50058, doi:10.3791/50058 (2013).