Infecting Dinn-1 Cells with P4 DiNV for RNA

Infected Dinn-1 cells needed for time course for RNASeq, flies for day 0, 1, 3, and 5. Cells had already been plated a few days before here.

I used the 250ul aliquot of P4 DiNV, this was not diluted (see here), Rob and I decided that using 20ul seemed like a good amount for each plate of cells to have the max ability to see all cells infected.

  • Thawed virus tube 81 on ice
  • Got LN2 for day 0 cells
  • Scraped up the wells for the day 0 cells with pipette tips inside the hood (Plate A)
  • Transferred the solution to 1.5mL tubes per well
  • Centrifuged tubes 1 min at 1000g to pellet the cells
  • Removed the supernatant to separate tubes
  • Flash froze the cell pellets:
sample number treatment day
1 NA 0
2 NA 0
3 NA 0
4 NA 0

For innoculating plates:

  • Pipette mixed virus solution
  • Added 20ul of P4 virus solution to wells C2, C3, C4, and C5 of plates B, C, and D
  • Added 20ul of cell culture medium to wells B2, B3, B4, and B5 of plates B, C, and D
  • Rocked plates back and forth a bit
  • Placed plates back in the incubator

Freezing plates later on:

  • On the day specified I followed the same process as above to freeze the cells
  • Scraped up the wells for the day cells with pipette tips inside the hood
  • Transferred the solution to 1.5mL tubes per well
  • Centrifuged tubes 1 min at 1000g to pellet the cells
  • Removed the supernatant to separate tubes
  • Flash froze the cell pellets

All samples:

sample number treatment day
1 NA 0
2 NA 0
3 NA 0
4 NA 0
9 CCM 1
10 CCM 1
11 CCM 1
12 CCM 1
13 20ul P4 DiNV 1
14 20ul P4 DiNV 1
15 20ul P4 DiNV 1
16 20ul P4 DiNV 1
25 CCM 3
26 CCM 3
27 CCM 3
28 CCM 3
29 20ul P4 DiNV 3
30 20ul P4 DiNV 3
31 20ul P4 DiNV 3
32 20ul P4 DiNV 3
41 CCM 5
42 CCM 5
43 CCM 5
44 CCM 5
45 20ul P4 DiNV 5
46 20ul P4 DiNV 5
47 20ul P4 DiNV 5
48 20ul P4 DiNV 5

Sample info here