Re: Lipofectamine auto fluorescence

From: Ray Hicks (rh208@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 11:01:09 EST


Hi Tami,
Have you tried compensating (on a plot of fl2/fl1) between the lipofectamine
fluorescence and GFP fluorescence?  We do this pretty routinely so that we
can separate low expressing transfectants from highly auto-fluorescent
non-transfectants.  I'm not sure that it'll work for lipofectamine, but it's
easy to try.
Cheers,

Ray

> From: Tami Rosario <trosario@cellmate.cb.uga.edu>
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:52:05 -0400
> To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
> Subject: Lipofectamine auto fluorescence
>
>
> We are transfecting COS 7 cells with a plasmid containing GFP using
> lipofectamine.  We see a large amount of auto fluorescence from the
> lipofectamine alone in our controls.   Has anyone else experienced
> this?  If so, how can we remedy the situation.
> Thanks for your help,
> Tami Rosario
> Department of Cellular Biology
> University of Georgia
>
>



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