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Optimisation of HEK-Blue™ IL-6 assay to detect physiological levels of IL-6. a Standard curve produced in a 96 well plate from a dilution series of recombinant human IL-6 (n = 2 plate replicates per concentration, with in-plate triplicates, standard deviations and 95% confidence interval shown). Conditions: 50000 HEK-Blue cells per well, 20 µL of IL-6 sample, final volume 200 µL. b Standard curve produced in a 384 well plate from a dilution series of recombinant human IL-6 (n = 2 plate replicates per concentration, with in-plate triplicates, standard deviations and 95% confidence intervals shown). Conditions: 12,500 cells per well, 5 µL of IL-6 sample, final volume 50 µL. c Schematic demonstrating optimisation protocol for HEK-SASP (i) the 4 variables tested in parallel were volume of SCCM added to HEK-Blue cells, volume of SEAPcontaining medium (i.e. medium conditioned by HEK-BlueTMcells), volume of QUANTI-Blue detection reagent, and colour development time for the final QB step of the assay; (ii) ratios of SEAP-containing medium to QUANTI-Blue detection reagent (QB) tested in 4 adjacent wells; (iii) pipetting of the different ratios of media in (ii) was achieved using a 96-well pipettor, with the plate shifted by one well position to the right, down or left (as shown) for each sequential pipetting reaction, leading to a quadrant format in the 384 well plate. d Colour coded 384 well plate with quantitative values, showing quadrant arrangement of samples. e Colour-coded data from incubation time course. f Standard curves generated from the various combinations of variables described in (c) and (d). g Standard curve from optimised protocol: 384 well plate, 12,500 HEKBlue™ IL-6 cells per well, 15 µL of sample (SCCM or recombinant human IL-6) to a final volume of 50 µL. 15 µL of SEAP medium was transferred to 35 µL of QUANTI-Blue and incubated for 2 h at 37 °C in a humidified incubator at 5% CO2. For each curve, continuous line = mean of triplicates at each concentration within a single plate, dotted lines = 95% confidence intervals
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Rolt, A., Nair, A. & Cox, L.S. Correction to: Optimisation of a screening platform for determining IL-6 inflammatory signalling in the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Biogerontology 20, 373–375 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-019-09803-8
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