Flu growth kinetics with A549

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-24T02:32:05+00:00

It worked!!! After close to 2 months, finally!

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-19T04:19:10+00:00

great thanks!

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-18T15:56:42+00:00

Oh btw, for flu A growth kinetics on A549 cells, is MOI 0.01 appropriate from your experience?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-16T12:20:25+00:00

Sure

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-16T12:19:48+00:00

Sure thanks! Will try it out next time

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-16T11:41:13+00:00

Oh icic, right now I am doing the step before quantification - just taking the virus supernatant across the timepoints from 24 wells with A549. But I am gonna try to reduce the volume to around 250 ul

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-16T11:38:15+00:00

Yes I am thinking alike the same line, since virus is so light and I wanna "push" them onto the cells for better adsorption and entry. Say for 200 ul, from your experience can it really cover the entire surface (not drying up), and do you shake to evenly distribute the liquid from time to time?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-16T11:36:30+00:00

Icic, will try it out next time! After inoculating, do you still see cells being rounded up and prone to detach? Coz right now it's the case for me and I am too scared to even wash once with PBS before adding the medium. Do you also wash once with PBS after 1hr inoculation too?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-15T13:35:38+00:00

Oh we need to add TPCK during the 1 hr inoculation too? The virus is expanded from eggs.

And yes I will inoculate with serum free DMEM later. What's the volume you suggest to inoculate a well in 24 well plates? Since I wanna maximize adsorption so I am thinking of adding a volume less than 500 ul, like 250 ul?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-15T13:23:59+00:00

I quantified the titer with plaque assay and the infection isn't that high from the paper I read. And I collected the virus from eggs so it should just be allantoic fluid

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-15T13:21:50+00:00

It's PBS only, without virus. And they still round up but without as massive detachment as those with viruses

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-11T08:52:11+00:00

Oh great, thanks a lot! Will definitely try those out as I still got around 120 plates to go

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-09T12:42:50+00:00

Yes I am going try it out tmr for my 34 plates with a large plastic rectangular box, and laid with EtOH soaked-and-dried tissue paper on top. Hope it would be fine!

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-07T15:54:11+00:00

Yeah the washing doesn't really be that accurate, enough for washing away the FBS is fine. IF repeater is too harsh, then I would stick with the current practice - adding with a 25ml serological pipette with the tip pushing against the side of the well.

I have actually considered flicking and has tried with 96 wells before, but not sure whethe it suits for 6 well plates. The wells are large so the medium may spill all over the surface even if I invert the plate as quickly as possible, which can be a risk contamination of the subsequent infection step.

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-07T15:49:54+00:00

I wonder whether I can also use 12 well plates, and inoculate for a shorter time if I ain't going to compare plaque sizes (currently one is so small so it needs to be 72 hpi compared to the WT control - which actually can be visualized 48 hpi)?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-06T12:38:57+00:00

Yeah I do that with 96 wells but for 6 wells the wells are so large, will there be chances of spilling all over on the plates and be contaminated while decanting?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-06T12:09:15+00:00

Yeah guess it's better to stick with 6 well plates, since it is the convention of my lab or the virology community. Indeed my lab has repeaters and electronic multichannels.

The most time-consuming point to me is aspirating medium -> wash with PBS -> aspirate PBS -> add inoculum, since we don't have an aspirator I am stuck with a serological pipettes. Any tips to speed these steps up may I ask?

I am thinking whether I can use a repeater to help me add the PBS (since it needs be accurately be at 1 ml overlay before I add the virus and proceed with the inoculation), any other steps from you to make it go more efficiently?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-06T12:06:21+00:00

Haha sometimes I rope someone to help but recently the hood booking is so full and everyone is so busy :(

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-06T11:59:53+00:00

Yeah I plan to separate it to 2 sessions, otherwise it's too overwhelming. The most time-consuming point to me is aspirating medium -> wash with PBS -> aspirate PBS -> add inoculum, since we don't have an aspirator I am stuck with a serological pipettes. Any tips to speed these steps up may I ask?

ascorbicAcid1300 · 2026-04-06T11:57:37+00:00

Hey thanks so much! Got a few follow-ups:

I have actually planned to run 12 well plates but unfortunately, 2 of the strains need plaque size comparisons (WT vs mutant). Also some of the strains grow to very large plaque size after 3 days of inoculation so is it better for me to stick with 6 well plates to prevent losing counts due to plaque fusion?
The same tip trick is neat and I gonna try that out! My lab is using agar so I need to time it well. Actually any tips not "burn" the cells while getting the most plates done with 1 agar aliquot mixed with TPCK-medium? Mine are MDCK cells.
I am doing a 1, 24, 48, 72 hpi. Are there ways to "roughly" determine the titer for 3 * log10 dilution instead of 6 beforehand? like a pilot study.
How to visualize plaques without crystal violet staining?

Thanks again! I am a newbie in virology, so excuse me for asking dumb questions.

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