Fig. 6

Fig. 6

ZIKV induces a spread-out morphology of monocytes. a Noninfected (NI) or ZIKV-infected monocytes were plated in wells coated with fibronectin. Upon fixation, cells were permeabilized and stained with Phalloidin A568 (yellow) and Dapi (blue). Images were acquired with a spinning-disk confocal microscope. For each condition, the images show a top view of the unprocessed fluorescence signal of a field of view (upper right) and isosurface-processed 3D reconstructions in the side view (down left). Scale bar: 10 µm. b ZIKV-infected or noninfected (NI) monocytes from two healthy donors were added to hCMEC/D3 and processed as mentioned in Fig. 5g. The relative projected area (area covered by the surface of individual monocytes) was measured at the indicated times post monocyte addition to the endothelial layer. Each bar graph corresponds to an experiment performed on monocytes from two donors showing the mean +/− SEM from two individual experiments. c Circularity of individual monocytes was measured 17 h after monocyte–hCMEC/D3 coculture by using ImageJ. Each dot corresponds to a single monocyte and the red bars correspond to the mean ± SEM from two individual experiments from two donors. A circularity value of 1 indicates a perfect circle and as the value approaches 0, it indicates an increasingly elongated polygon. d A transmigration assay in a transwell was performed with noninfected (NI) or 48 h ZIKV-infected (ZIKV) monocytes in the presence or absence of 50 µM ZCL278. The ratio of transmigrating cells between ZCL278-treated and untreated samples is shown. Each dot corresponds to an individual donor. Two-tailed p value was nonsignificant (ns), <0.05 (*) or <0.0005 (***). Statistical significance was determined by using a t test. Source data in b–d are provided as a Source Data file