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        Fixation and permeabilization protocol 5/30/91 Mike Finney

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        Fixation and permeabilization protocol 5/30/91 Mike Finney

        This protocol works for all stages except dauers (which won't open) and
        hypoclorite-treated eggs (which disintegrate). Luckily, hypochlorite
        treatment and fixation are by themselves sufficient to open eggs. This
        technique should work for virtually all polyclonal sera most
        monoclonals, as long as the major epitopes do not depend on disulfide
        bonds. Animals fixed in this way can be stained with X-gal.

        1) Fixation:

        - Wash animals from an unstarved plate with buffer. Wash them free of
        bacteria with water, leaving them in water in a microfuge tube on ice.

        - Add cold 2X MRWB to a final concentration of 1X and 20% formaldehyde
        to a final concentration of 1-4% (total volume usually 1 ml). Mix well,
        freeze in dry ice/ethanol, melt on ice, and incubate on ice with
        occasional agitation for 0.5 hr to overnight. Frozen samples may be
        processed immediately or stored indefinitely.

        Notes: Methanol precipitates proteins, reducing diffusion before
        crosslinking. Spermidine and formaldehyde together crosslink proteins.
        Formaldehyde concentration and fixation time are important and should be
        optimized; a good place to start is 1% for 0.5 hr; more fixation will
        stabilize some antigens but destroy others (like unc-86). Freezing
        cracks egg shells, letting the fixatives in.

        2) Reduction:

        - Wash worms twice with Tris Triton buffer, then incubate in
        Tris Triton buffer + 1% BME, 1-2 hours at 37degrees with mild agitation.
        After this point the worms are fragile and shouldn't be spun hard (5000
        rpm in a microfuge is OK).
        Note: Steve Salser reports that spinning the worms is essential for the
        protocol to work; letting them settle out apparently does not provide
        enough stress to open the cuticle.

        - Wash worms once in 10-15 vols. 1x BO3 buffer, then incubate in 1x BO3
        buffer + 10mM DTT, 15 min with agitation.

        Notes: BME and DTT reduce the disulfide linkages that help hold the
        cuticle together; Triton keeps the worms from sticking to each other.
        The disulfide reduction is complete in minutes; the extended incubation
        at 37 degrees is to kill worm enzymes like DNases, proteases and
        peroxidases (which wreak havok in the oxidation step).

        3) Oxidation:

        - Wash worms once in 10-15 vols. 1x BO3 buffer, then incubate in
        1x BO3 buffer + 0.3% H2O2, 15 min at room temperature. Agitate gently
        but keep tubes upright because the cap may pop open from the O2
        pressure.

        - Wash once with 1x BO3 buffer and once for at least 15 min with
        antibody buffer B. Store worms at 4 degrees in antibody buffer A.

        Notes: H2O2 oxidizes the -SH groups to -SO3. Do not over-wash, so
        disulfides do not reform. BO3 buffer provides the basic pH needed for
        the reaction. Cysteines and methionines in other proteins will be
        oxidized as well, possibly affecting some epitopes. Met but not Cys can
        be restored by a second DTT treatment.

        4) Staining:

        Do antibody incubations in buffer A and washes in buffer B.

        Buffers:

        2X Modified Ruvkun's witches brew (MRWB)
        160 mM KCl
        40mM NaCl
        20 mM Na2EGTA
        10 mM Spermidine HCl
        30 mM Na PIPES pH 7.4
        50% methanol

        Tris Triton buffer
        100 mM Tris Cl pH 7.4
        1% Triton X-100 or NP-40
        1 mM EDTA

        40x BO3 buffer (pH ~9.2 at 25mM)
        1 M H3BO3
        0.5 M NaOH

        Antibody buffers:
        A 1X PBS
        1 % BSA
        0.5 % Triton X-100 or NP-40
        0.05 % Na Azide
        1 mM EDTA

        B Same as A except 0.1% BSA

        20% formaldehyde
        Weigh somewhat more dry paraformaldehyde than you need (<300 mg)
        and put it in a microfuge tube. Multiply the weight in mg by 4.5 and add
        that volume in microliters of 5mM NaOH. Place in 65degree bath for 30
        minutes with occasional mixing. Spin for 1 min. to pellet undissolved
        paraformaldehyde. Use the supernatant immediately.

         

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