RE: bacterial pH

From: gerhard nebe-von-caron (Gerhard.Nebe-von-Caron@Unilever.com)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 22:51:49 EST


Due to the dye transporter systems the only working system for me has been
carboxy-fluorescein-diacetate-succinimidylester. However in the absence of dual
excitation ratio (as described in Howard Shapiro's book) your measurements are
severely limited due to variations in the dye loading and cell volume => width
of the distribution. Thus you only get a rough estimate. Unfortunately you can
also not work in the exponential growth phase as that won't allow you dye
loading in the first place. All a bit limited, the whole method unless you have
a non-pumping strain..

good luck

Gerhard

-----Original Message-----
From:	Elaine Kunze [SMTP:mek4@psu.edu]
Sent:	Wednesday, June 21, 2000 9:37 PM
To:	Cytometry Mailing List
Subject:	bacterial pH


Has anyone measured pH in E. coli using Lysosensor Green?  If not, what is
a good alternative for measuring pH?
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	Elaine Kunze
	Flow Cytometry.....Image Analysis...
	Life Sciences Consortium
	8B Althouse Laboratory	(814-863-2762)
	Penn State University
	University Park, PA 16802



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