Example 4
A549 and NIH-3T3 cells were cultured in DMEM+10% FCS. HEK-293 cells were cultured in DMEM+15% FCS and SK-MEL-30 in RPMI+10% FBS. Cells were harvested using Accumax (Sigma), washed with PBS and resuspended in stain buffer (BD Pharmingen). Anti-IL-1R3 antibodies were incubated with the cells in stain buffer for 30 minutes at 4° C. at a concentration of 10 lag/ml. For EC50 SK-MEL-30 cell binding analysis, cells were incubated in a 1:2 dilution series starting with 20 μg/ml. Cells were washed with stain buffer and incubated with Alexa-488 labelled goat-anti-human secondary antibody (Dianova) for 30 minutes at 4° C. Cells were washed with stain buffer and resuspended in buffer containing 1:100 diluted DRAQ7 (Abcam) dead cell stain. Cells were analysed using a BD Accuri C6 Sampler flow cytometer. Fitting curve and EC50 calculation was done using Excel (Microsoft) and XLfit (IDBS).