使用羧基荧光素二乙酸琥珀酰亚胺酯(CFSE)监测淋巴细胞增殖。
The use of carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE) to monitor lymphocyte proliferation.
作者信息
Quah Benjamin J C, Parish Christopher R
机构信息
Department of Immunology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University.
出版信息
J Vis Exp. 2010 Oct 12(44):2259. doi: 10.3791/2259.
Carboxyfluorescein succinimidyl ester (CFSE) is an effective and popular means to monitor lymphocyte division. CFSE covalently labels long-lived intracellular molecules with the fluorescent dye, carboxyfluorescein. Thus, when a CFSE-labeled cell divides, its progeny are endowed with half the number of carboxyfluorescein-tagged molecules and thus each cell division can be assessed by measuring the corresponding decrease in cell fluorescence via Flow cytometry. The capacity of CFSE to label lymphocyte populations with a high fluorescent intensity of exceptionally low variance, coupled with its low cell toxicity, make it an ideal dye to measure cell division. Since it is a fluorescein-based dye it is also compatible with a broad range of other fluorochromes making it applicable to multi-color flow cytometry. This article describes the procedures typically used for labeling mouse lymphocytes for the purpose of monitoring up to 8 cell divisions. These labeled cells can be used both for in vitro and in vivo studies.
羧基荧光素琥珀酰亚胺酯(CFSE)是监测淋巴细胞分裂的一种有效且常用的方法。CFSE用荧光染料羧基荧光素对长寿的细胞内分子进行共价标记。因此,当一个CFSE标记的细胞分裂时,其后代获得的羧基荧光素标记分子数量减半,这样每个细胞分裂都可以通过流式细胞术测量细胞荧光的相应降低来评估。CFSE能够以极低的方差高荧光强度标记淋巴细胞群体,再加上其低细胞毒性,使其成为测量细胞分裂的理想染料。由于它是一种基于荧光素的染料,它还与广泛的其他荧光染料兼容,适用于多色流式细胞术。本文描述了通常用于标记小鼠淋巴细胞以监测多达8次细胞分裂的程序。这些标记的细胞可用于体外和体内研究。