Chapter title |
Analysis of Histone Deacetylase-Dependent Effects on Cell Migration Using the Stripe Assay
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Chapter number | 5 |
Book title |
HDAC/HAT Function Assessment and Inhibitor Development
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6527-4_5 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6525-0, 978-1-4939-6527-4
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Authors |
Sonja Mertsch, Solon Thanos |
Abstract |
For normal embryonic development/morphogenesis, cell migration and homing are well-orchestrated and important events requiring specific cellular mechanisms. In diseases such as cancer deregulated cell migration represents a major problem. Therefore, numerous efforts are under way to understand the molecular mechanisms of tumor cell migration and to generate more efficient tumor therapies. Cell migration assays are one of the most commonly used functional assays. The wound-healing assay or the Boyden chamber assay are variations of these assays. Nearly all of them are two-dimensional assays and the cells can only migrate on one substrate at a time. This is in contrast to the in vivo situation where the cells are faced simultaneously with different surfaces and interact with different cell types. To approach this in vivo situation we used a modified version of the stripe assay designed by Bonhoeffer and colleagues to examine mechanisms of axonal guidance. The design of this assay allows cells to decide between two different substrates offered at the same time. Utilizing alternating neuronal substrates for migration analyses we can partially mimic the complex in vivo situation for brain tumor cells. Here we describe the detailed protocol to perform a modified version of the stripe assay in order to observe substrate-dependent migration effects in vitro, to analyze the effect of Rho-dependent kinases (ROCKS), of histone deacetylases (HDACs) and of other molecules on glioma cells. |
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