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160 Erfle <strong>and</strong> Pepperkok<br />

5. The stained samples are stored at 4°C either embedded in Mowiol or in PBS<br />

solution containing 0.1% azide after a brief poststaining fixation of the samples<br />

with paraformaldehyde for 2 min.<br />

3.5. Analysis of Samples by High-Content Screening<br />

In principle, images of the cells on the spots can be acquired with any commercially<br />

available inverted microscope. We use a ScanR (Olympus Biosystems,<br />

Munich, Germany; [3]) scanning microscope, with automated focus, allowing<br />

time-lapse data acquisition. The microscope is equipped with st<strong>and</strong>ard filters to<br />

detect DAPI, GFP, <strong>and</strong> Cy3. A 10 × /0.4 air or a 40 × /0.95 air PlanApo objective<br />

(Olympus) is used for image acquisition.<br />

A key step of the whole image acquisition process is to find the first spot of<br />

the array. We use the fluorescent signal of the cotransfected Cy3 DNA oligonucleotide.<br />

In addition, we mark the first spot manually with a thin <strong>and</strong> waterresistant<br />

black marker pen on the opposite side of the coverglass where the<br />

spots are located, before cell seeding.<br />

1. Assign the spot-to-spot distance, the number of samples, <strong>and</strong> the array dimensions<br />

(number of samples in x-direction <strong>and</strong> number of samples in y-direction).<br />

2. For image processing the images are background corrected by subtracting the average<br />

pixel value in a blank region of the image. The locations of the cells are determined<br />

by Hoechst nuclear stain. A possible fluorescence statistics can be based on<br />

the mean fluorescence values in a dilated region around the nucleus (including or<br />

not including nucleus, depending on the assay). Average values obtained should be<br />

normalized to the siRNA control (1.0) (nonsilencing) spotted on the same slide.<br />

4. Notes<br />

1. The spotting robot used has to be able to pass the walls of the Lab-Tek chamber.<br />

2. To achieve the required accuracy of the spot-to-spot distance, high-resolution<br />

spotting robots are necessary.<br />

References<br />

1. Ziauddin, J. <strong>and</strong> Sabatini, D. M. (2001) Microarrays of cells expressing defined<br />

cDNAs. Nature 411, 107–110.<br />

2. Erfle, H., Simpson, J. C., Bastiaens, P. I., <strong>and</strong> Pepperkok, R. (2004) siRNA cell<br />

arrays for high-content screening microscopy. BioTechniques 37, 454–462.<br />

3. Liebel, U., Starkuviene, V., Erfle, H., et al. (2003) A microscope-based screening<br />

platform for large scale functional analysis in intact cells. FEBS Lett. 554,<br />

394–398.<br />

4. Starkuviene, V., Liebel, U., Simpson, J. C., et al. (2004) High-content screening<br />

microscopy identifies novel proteins with a putative role in secretory membrane<br />

traffic. Genome Res. 14, 1948–1956.

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