GFP photo-bleaching?

From: Marty Bigos (bigos@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 13:06:25 EST


One of our users who screens a lot of his cell lines using GFP and cFP
finds that upon re-analysis of his sorted population, most, if not all, are
at a lower intensity, many times even below the sort window. Having
verified our sorting conditions we are wondering if photo-bleaching of the
fluorochrome is responsable for this. I have not checked the literature on
this, and would appreciate hearing about any experiences or getting
references.

Marty Bigos
Beckman/Stanford Shared FACS Facility



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