Re: Drosophila discs and cell cylce analysis

From: Derek Davies (daviesd2@icrf.icnet.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 31 1999 - 01:31:32 EST


Hi Andy,

I have done something very similar quite recently. The cells had been
tagged with a GFP variant that would not survive the ethanol fixation
required to enable me to use PI so we went back to the reliable Hoechst
technique. After disaggregation the cells were stained with 10µg/ml
Hoechst 33342 for 20 minutes at 37¡C. As the staining was performed
elsewhere, the cells remained in the dye until they were analysed but this
didnt affect the viability as judged by PI exclusion. The Hoechst
fluorescence was collected between 390 and 480nm and the GFP using a
510/20bp filter.

Good luck!

Derek


On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Andrew Morschauser wrote:
> We have a researcher that would like to look at GFP and cell cycle in 
> drosophila disks using PI or Hoechst.  Does anyone out there have a 
> labeling protocol for cells containing GFP for cell cycle?
> Andy Morschauser
> University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
> Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorter Shared Facility

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