Re: Can EYFP be run on FACScan?

From: Neal Benson (nbenson@ufl.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 08:27:50 EST


In a pinch - if you want to use the 514 line on your sorter - you can
probably get away with no filter in the SSC channel and perhaps just a
neutral density filter in your FSC channel, since the light scatter
often is so much more intense than the fluorescence.

Neal

Joseph Webster wrote:
>
> Yes, EYFP can definitely be read on a FACScan.
> The intensity is less than on the sorter with 514 excitation,
> but easily detectable.
>
> For screening clones we run them on the FACScan, only bother
> changing wavelengths on the sorter for actually sorting.
> If you want to do that, you need 514 filters for FSC & SSC,
> also something like 545/35 for FL1; the standard 530/30 will
> allow lots of 514 laser light into the fluorescence channel.
>
> Joseph.
>
> At 02:00 24/7/2001, Nancy Harvey wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I have an investigator who wants to check samples that have enhanced
> >YFP.  The ideal excitation is 514.
> >Has anyone been able to detect EYFP with the 488 excitation of
> >a FACScan?
> >
> >I could tune the primary laser on the Vantage to 514, but have only 488/10
> >filters for FSC and SSC.
> >
> >Any thoughts and suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> >Nan Harvey
> >University of MS Medical Center
> >Jackson, MS  39216

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Neal Benson
University of Florida
nbenson@ufl.edu



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