dpp and dawdle Are Expressed in Subsets of Phagocytes
(A–T) Dorsal thoraxes of flies injected with Alexa Fluor 488-labeled S. aureus.
(A–E) HmlΔ-dsRed flies (w;HmlΔdsRed.nuc).
(F–J) crq>cherry flies (w1118;;crq-Gal4,UAS-mCD8-cherry/+).
(K–O) dpp>mRFP flies (w;UAS-myr.mRFP/+;dpp.blk1.40C.6-Gal4/+).
(P–T) daw>mRFP flies (w;UAS-myr.mRFP/dawNP4661).
(A, F, K, and P) Bright field of the region imaged in each row.
(B, G, L, and Q) Maximum projection, Alexa Fluor 488 S. aureus-labeled phagocytes (green).
(C, H, M, and R) Maximum projection, RFP (magenta).
(D, I, N, and S) Merge of red and green showing overlap (white) between Alexa Fluor 488 S. aureus and RFP.
(E, J, O, and T) Close-up of the indicated region of the previous image (yellow square), taken from a single focal plane to clarify the overlap between S. aureus and marker expression. Example double-labeled cells are indicated with white arrowheads.
(U) Proportions of cells showing green fluorescence (Alexa Fluor 488 S. aureus), red fluorescence (RFP), or both. Top: these subsets as proportions of the total number of labeled cells. Bottom: proportions of RFP+ cells that were also AF488+/AF488−. Counts were taken from single images covering the entire dorsal thorax and abdomen. Full counts are given in Table S1.
(V) Top and bottom right: fluorescence-activated cell sorting strategy for cells marked by HmlΔ>eGFP (w1118;HmlΔ-Gal4,UAS-2xeGFP/+). Gating (clockwise from top left): debris exclusion, doublet exclusion, eGFP expression. Bottom left: expression of Hml, crq, dpp, and daw in this sample (20,000 GFP+ cells) and purity analysis for this sample.
See also Figure S4 and Table S1.