Source: Imura, E., et al. Protocols for Visualizing Steroidogenic Organs and Their Interactive Organs with Immunostaining in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster. J. Vis. Exp. (2017).
This video describes the Drosophila ring gland, a complex endocrine structure important for biosynthesis and secretion of ecdysteroids and other hormones. The featured protocol demonstrates its dissection, fixation, and immunostaining.
Egg collection | |||
tissue culture dish (55 mm) | AS ONE | 1-8549-02 | for grape-juice agar plates |
collection cup | HIKARI KAGAKU | ||
yeast paste | Oriental dry yeast, Tokyo | ||
100% grape juice | Welch Food Inc. | ||
rearing larvae | |||
small vials (12ml, 40×23.5 mm, PS) | SARSTEDT | 58.487 | |
disposable loop | AS ONE | 6-488-01 | |
standard fly food | The recipe is on the website of Bloomington stock center. | ||
Dissection | |||
dissecting microscope | Carl Zeiss | Stemi 2000-C | |
dissecting microscope | Leica | S8 AP0 | |
tissue culture dish (35 x 10 mm, non-treated) | IWAKI | 1000-035 | |
Sylgard | TORAY | coarting silicon inside dishes | |
Terumo needle (27G, 0.40 x 19 mm) | TERUMO | NN-2719S | A "knife" to cut the tissue |
forceps, Inox, #5 | Dumont, Switzerland | ||
insect pin (0.18 mm in diameter) | Shiga Brand | for fillet dissection | |
micro scissors | NATSUME SEISAKUSHO CO LTD. | MB-50-10 | |
Fixation | |||
ultrapure water | Merck Millipore | ||
phosphate buffered saline (PBS) | |||
Formaldehyde | Nacalai tesque | 16222-65 | |
Paraformaldehyde | Nacalai tesque | 02890-45 | |
Triton-X100 | Nacalai tesque | 35501-15 | |
microtubes (1.5 ml) | INA OPTIKA | CF-0150 | |
Incubation | |||
As one swist mixer TM-300 (rocker) | As one | TM-300 | rocker |
Bovine Serum Albumin | SIGMA | 9048-46-8 | |
Primary antibody | |||
anti-Sro (guinea pig), 1:1000 | |||
anti-GFP (rabbit), 1:1000 | Molecular Probes | A6455 | Shimada-Niwa ans Niwa, 2014 |
anti-GFP (mouse mAb, GF200), 1:100 | Nakarai tesque | 04363-66 | |
anti-5HT (rabbit), 1:500 | SIGMA | S5545 | |
anti-Hts 1B1 (mouse) | Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank (DSHB) | 1B1 | |
anti-DE-cadherin (rat), 1:20 | DSHB | DCAD2 | |
anti-nc82 (mouse), 1:50 | DSHB | nc82 | |
Secondary antibody | |||
Goat anti-Rabbit IgG (H+L) Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 488 conjugate | Life Technologies | A-11008 | |
Goat anti-Mouse IgG (H+L) Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 488 conjugate | Life Technologies | A-11001 | |
Goat anti-Rat IgG (H+L) Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 546 conjugate | Life Technologies | A-11081 | |
Goat anti-Guinea Pig IgG (H+L) Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor 555 conjugate | Life Technologies | A-21435 | |
Alexa Fluor 546 dye-conjugated phalloidin | Life Technologies | A-22283 | |
Mounting reagents | |||
Micro slide glass | Matsunami Glass Ind.,Ltd. | SS7213 | |
Square microscope cover glass | Matsunami Glass Ind.,Ltd. | C218181 | |
FluorSave reagent (Mounting reagent) | Calbiochem | 345789 | |
Transfer pipette 1 ml (Disposable dropper) | WATSON | 5660-222-1S | |
Fly stocks | |||
w; GMR45C06-GAL4 | from Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. (#46260) | ||
UAS–GFP; UAS–mCD8::GFP | gifts from K. Ito, The University of Tokyo. | ||
w[1118] | |||
w; phantom-GAL4#22/UAS-turboRFP | |||
w; UAS-mCD8::GFP; TRH-GAL4 | Li, H. H. (2014) and Alekseyenko, O. V, Lee, C. & Kravitz, E. A. (2010) | ||
w; UAS-mCD8::GFP | from Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. (#32188) | ||
yw;; nSyb-GAL4 | from Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center. (#51941) |