Intracellular reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was measured by epifluorescence using the described protocol [26 (link)]. Briefly, the Huh7 cells were seeded into 48-well plates, transfected with plasmids encoding HCV core variants. Cell culture medium was removed 30 h post transfection, and cells were incubated in the medium containing 25 µM 2′,7′-dichlorodihydrofluorescein diacetate (DCFH-DA) for 30 min. The treated cells were washed with PBS, resuspended in PBS, and the fluorescence intensities were measured using Plate CHAMELEON V reader (Hidex Oy, Åbo, Finland) with excitation at 485 and emission at 535 nm.
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