Drosophila Larva Imaginal Disc Dissection: A Method to Observe Developing Epithelia
Published: April 30, 2023
Abstract
Source: Morimoto, K. and Tamori, Y. Induction and Diagnosis of Tumors in Drosophila Imaginal Disc Epithelia. J. Vis. Exp. (2017).
When staining Drosophila imaginal discs, often a rough dissection is performed where the discs are exposed but remain attached to the body. Once stained, the discs of interest are isolated and mounted. The example protocol demonstrates a procedure for wing imaginal disc dissection and mounting.
Protocol
This protocol is an excerpt from Morimoto and Tamori, Induction and Diagnosis of Tumors in Drosophila Imaginal Disc Epithelia, J. Vis. Exp. (2017). 1. Dissection of Larvae Collect wandering third instar larvae with a wooden stick or blunt forceps, genotype them by appropriate fluorescent markers (e.g., EGFP) under a fluorescence stereoscopic microscope and place them in a dissection dish with PBS (phosphate buffered saline)…
Materials
| Reagents | |||
| Phosphate buffered saline (PBS) | Wako | 162-19321 | |
| TritonX-100 | Wako | 168-11805 | |
| Formaldehyde | Wako | 064-00406 | |
| bovine serum albumin | Sigma | A7906 | |
| normal goat serum | Sigma | G6767 | |
| mounting medium, Vectashield | Vector Laboratories | H-1000 | |
| DAPI | Sigma | D9542 | |
| mouse-anti-Dlg 4F3 | Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank | 4F3 anti-discs large, RRID:AB_528203 | dilute in PBTG, 1:40 |
| mouse-anti-MMP1 | Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank | 3A6B4, RRID:AB_579780 | 3 mixed 1:1:1 and dilute in PBTG, 1:40 |
| mouse-anti-MMP1 | Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank | 3B8D12, RRID:AB_579781 | 3 mixed 1:1:1 and dilute in PBTG, 1:40 |
| mouse-anti-MMP1 | Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank | 5H7B11, RRID:AB_579779 | 3 mixed 1:1:1 and dilute in PBTG, 1:40 |
| mouse-anti-atubulin | Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank | AA4.3, RRID:AB_579793 | dilute in PBTG, 1:100 |
| Alexa Fluor 546 Phalloidin | Molecular probes | A22283 | dilute in PBS, 1:40 |
| goat anti-mouse IgG antibody, Alexa Fluor 546 | Molecular probes | A11030 | dilute in PBTG, 1:400 |
| Fly strains | |||
| sd-Gal4 | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #8609 | recombined with UAS-EGFP |
| upd-Gal4 | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #26796 | recombined with UAS-EGFP |
| UAS-lgl-RNAi | Vienna Drosophila RNAi center | #51247 | |
| UAS-scrib-RNAi | Vienna Drosophila RNAi center | #105412 | |
| UAS-RasV12 | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #64196 | |
| UAS-Yki3SA | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #28817 | |
| hsFLP | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #6 | |
| Act>CD2>GAL4 (flip-out GAL4) | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #4780 | recombined with UAS-EGFP |
| UAS-EGFP | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #5428 | X chromosome |
| UAS-EGFP | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #6658 | third chromosome |
| UAS-Dicer2 | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #24650 | second chromosome |
| UAS-Dicer2 | Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center | #24651 | third chromosome |
| vkg-GFP | Morin et al. 2001 | GFP protein trap |
Cite This Article
Drosophila Larva Imaginal Disc Dissection: A Method to Observe Developing Epithelia. J. Vis. Exp. (Pending Publication), e20087, doi: (2023).