Intracellular Cytokine Staining GFP cells

From: Nathalie Tessier (tessien@ircm.qc.ca)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 15:01:28 EST


Hello.  I`m having a HUGE problem trying to intracellularly stain
primary t-cells which have been retrovirally infected with GFP.  My
infection %`s of GFP into extracted splenocytes are only about 5% at the
beginning of my experiment,  but at the end of the experiment, once I
have fixed and permeabilized and stained the cells for cytokines, I can
detect no GFP positive cells.  I know my insert is there (as my lysates
on a western showed), but how do I get around losing the fluorescence of
the GFP.  Please help! Are there any protocols that circumvent the
quenching of the GFP signal?  Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Raman Minhas
Clinical Research Institute of Montreal,
McGill University




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