High-throughput immunofluorescence microscopy using yeast spheroplast cell-based microarrays

Methods Mol Biol. 2011:706:83-95. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61737-970-3_7.

Abstract

We have described a protocol for performing high-throughput immunofluorescence microscopy on microarrays of yeast cells. This approach employs immunostaining of spheroplasted yeast cells printed as high-density cell microarrays, followed by imaging using automated microscopy. A yeast spheroplast microarray can contain more than 5,000 printed spots, each containing cells from a given yeast strain, and is thus suitable for genome-wide screens focusing on single cell phenotypes, such as systematic localization or co-localization studies or genetic assays for genes affecting probed targets. We demonstrate the use of yeast spheroplast microarrays to probe microtubule and spindle defects across a collection of yeast strains harboring tetracycline-down-regulatable alleles of essential genes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Down-Regulation
  • Genes, Fungal
  • High-Throughput Screening Assays / methods*
  • Microscopy, Fluorescence
  • Microtubules / metabolism
  • Spheroplasts / genetics*
  • Spindle Apparatus / metabolism
  • Spindle Apparatus / pathology
  • Tetracycline / pharmacology
  • Tissue Array Analysis / methods*
  • Yeasts / genetics*

Substances

  • Tetracycline