Chick kidney cells (CKCs) were prepared from 2–4 weeks-old specific-pathogen-free (SPF) chickens, obtained from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Poultry Farm, following standard methods [27 ] and seeded in growth medium consisting of
Medium 199 (Cellgro, Corning, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% tryptose-phosphate broth (TPB), 0.63% NaHCO
3 solution, and antibiotics (100 U/mL penicillin and 100 µg/mL streptomycin) and 4% fetal bovine serum (FBS). Confluent CKCs were maintained in F10.199 medium consisting of a 1:1 mixture of
Ham’s F10 (Cellgro) and
Medium 199 supplemented with 7.5% TPB, 0.63% NaHCO
3, 0.2% FBS, and antibiotics.
Chicken embryo cells (CECs) were prepared from 10–11-day-old SPF embryos obtained from the UIUC Poultry Farm following standard methods [27 ]. Briefly, primary CECs were seeded in growth medium consisting of
Medium 199 supplemented with 10% TPB, 0.63% NaHCO
3 solution, antibiotics, and 4% FBS. Confluent CECs were maintained in
Medium 199 supplemented with 7.5% TPB, 0.63% NaHCO
3, 0.2% FBS, and antibiotics.
The chicken DF-1-Cre fibroblast cell line [28 (
link)] was cultivated in a 1:1 mixture of
Leibovitz L-15 and McCoy 5A (LM) media (Gibco, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) supplemented with 10% FBS and antibiotics, and maintained in 50 µg/mL
Zeocin (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA).
All cells were maintained at 38 °C in a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO
2.
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