PMID- 36905507 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230314 LR - 20230424 IS - 1940-6029 (Electronic) IS - 1064-3745 (Linking) VI - 2618 DP - 2023 TI - In Vivo Tracking of Dendritic Cell Migration. PG - 39-53 LID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-2938-3_3 [doi] AB - Dendritic cells (DCs) in peripheral tissue serve as a sentinel to invasion and maintain tolerance. They ingest and carry antigens to the draining lymph nodes and present antigens to antigen-specific T cells to initiate acquired immune responses. Thus, understanding DC migration from peripheral tissues and function is critical for understanding DCs' roles in immune homeostasis. Here, we introduced the KikGR in vivo photolabeling system, an ideal tool for monitoring precise cellular movements and related functions in vivo under physiological conditions and during various immune responses that occur in pathologic condition. Using a mouse line expressing photoconvertible fluorescent protein KikGR, we can label DCs in peripheral tissues by changing the color of KikGR from green to red after exposure to violet light and accurately track DC migration from each peripheral tissue to its respective draining lymph nodes. CI - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. FAU - Tomura, Michio AU - Tomura M AD - Laboratory of Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Osaka Ohtani University, Tondabayashi, Osaka, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Methods Mol Biol JT - Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) JID - 9214969 RN - 0 (Proteins) RN - 0 (Antigens) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Mice MH - *Dendritic Cells MH - Cell Movement MH - *Proteins MH - Antigens MH - Adaptive Immunity MH - Lymph Nodes MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL OTO - NOTNLM OT - Dendritic cells OT - In vivo photo labeling OT - KikGR mouse OT - Migration OT - Photoconvertible protein OT - Tracking EDAT- 2023/03/12 06:00 MHDA- 2023/03/15 06:00 CRDT- 2023/03/11 11:17 PHST- 2023/03/11 11:17 [entrez] PHST- 2023/03/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/03/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1007/978-1-0716-2938-3_3 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Methods Mol Biol. 2023;2618:39-53. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2938-3_3.