>Hi Flow people
>I'm working on cord blood phenotyping, interested in rare leukocyte subsets.
>As those who work on these preps will know, there is a problem with RBC and
>erythroid contamination, variable but up to 80% of ficoll separated PBMC.
>They don't seem to lyse easily using hypotonic methods, and as some are
>nucleated, I wouldn't expect this to be an ideal approach.
>Gating on FS/SS can partly improve percentage of CD45+ cells but not much.
>We really want to clean the preps up, and I have been thinking of using
>complement lysis of the RBC, perhaps with an antibody to Glycophorin A.
>There are antibodies of different isotypes available, including IgM, I
>presume this might be the best to start with for complement lysis. I
>believe GlyA has a complement regulatory function, I don't know if this
>will be a problem.
>
>Does anybody have any hints on this, either the lysis method, or is there a
>simpler way of removing the erythroid cells that I have missed out on?
>Immunomagnetic separations can get a bit expensive, and positive selection
>of CD45+ cells will cause problems with further analysis. I presume there
>must be a lot of people doing this sort of thing, because of the CD34
>interest.
>
>Thanks.
>
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>Dr William Smith
>
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Barry Grimes
Manager, Hematopoiesis FACS Laboratory
UKMC Hematopoiesis Center
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