This video demonstrates the bacterial adherence assay to evaluate GFP-tagged bacterial adherence to epithelial cell culture to study the dynamics of host-pathogen interactions using fluorescence microscopy-based imaging.
Protocol
1. Bacterial adherence and host cell staining First, wash the seeded A549 cell monolayers three times with warm 1x PBS. For each wash, add 100 μL of 1x PBS to each well, gently pipette up and down three times, dispose of 1x PBS or wait for 10 s after addition, and then vacuum to remove 1x PBS. To determine the kinetics of bacterial association, overlay the cells with 100 µL of desired concentrations of bacterial suspension with different MOIs (0, 1, 10, and 100). Spin down the bacte…