Flow cytometry-based ex vivo murine NK cell cytotoxicity assay

Pamela Wong; Julia A. Wagner; Melissa M. Berrien-Elliott; Timothy Schappe; Todd A. Fehniger

doi:10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100262

Flow cytometry-based ex vivo murine NK cell cytotoxicity assay

Pamela Wong, Julia A. Wagner, Melissa M. Berrien-Elliott, Timothy Schappe, Todd A. Fehniger

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Abstract

Direct killing of diseased cells is a hallmark function of NK cells. This protocol describes a flow-based assay to measure in vivo activated murine NK cells’ ability to kill target cells ex vivo. Existing published protocols for assaying ex vivo NK cell killing utilized the radioactive chromium release assay or were designed for human NK cells. This protocol details specifically an ex vivo cytotoxicity assay using primary murine NK cells enriched from splenocytes that were activated in vivo with poly(I:C). For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Wagner et al. (2020).

Original language	English
Article number	100262
Journal	STAR Protocols
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2020.100262
State	Published - Mar 19 2021

Keywords

Cell culture
Cell isolation
Cell-based assays
Flow cytometry/mass cytometry
Immunology

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