1mM EDTA FACS buffer and extensive fluorochrome panel

From: Karis Hughes <karismhughes@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Mar 20 2008 - 16:16:21 EDT
Hi Flow~ers-
  I have a practical question that someone might easily be able to answer.  We have been
using a 10 color panel with the LSRII with great luck in analysis of non adherent cells. 
For this purpose we usually do not have EDTA added to our FACS buffer.	However, we have
recently been interested in some adherent cell populations.  We have been running our
samples over mesh to get rid of clumps, then adding 25ul of 5mM EDTA to our 200ul sample
immediately prior to running them.   However we are still running in to small clumping
issues.
  Here's the question:	Does anyone know if the fluorochromes APC, APC-Cy7, PE-Cy7,
PE-Cy5.5, Alexa700, PacBlu, Q-Dot are stable in 1mM EDTA or 5mM EDTA supplemented FACS
buffer for a small period of time such as a few hours?
  Thanks so much for sharing your experience-
  Karis Hughes
  Graduate Student
  Department of Immunology
  UT-Southwestern Medical Center


Karis M. Hughes
  karismhughes@yahoo.com
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Received on Fri Mar 21 11:58:00 2008

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