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1 November 2001 INNOCUOUSNESS AND INTRACELLULAR DISTRIBUTION OF PKH67: A FLUORESCENT PROBE FOR CELL PROLIFERATION ASSESSMENT
CÉCILE ROUSSELLE, MAGALI BARBIER, VINCENT COMTE, CORINNE ALCOUFFE, JOCELYNE CLEMENT-LACROIX, GÉRARD CHANCEL, XAVIER RONOT
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Abstract

PKH dyes were initially developed by Horan et al. to provide appropriate probes for in vitro and in vivo cell tracking. It has been reported for many cell types that PKH bind irreversibly to the cell membrane without significantly affecting cell growth. Thus, these probes provide an opportunity for long-term cell monitoring and the identification of cells of interest among a heterogeneous cell population. An important feature is that upon cell division, the probe is partitioned equally between each daughter cell, making it possible to quantify cell fluorescence by flow cytometry. In this situation, the flow cytometric study of PKH67 characteristics shows that this probe does not affect the main cell-functions such as viability or proliferation. Moreover, the intracellular distribution of PKH67 is demonstrated by following its kinetics of internalization by confocal microscopy. These results present PKH67 as a probe suitable for dynamic analysis of cell proliferation as well as the study of intracellular localization and membrane recycling mechanisms.

CÉCILE ROUSSELLE, MAGALI BARBIER, VINCENT COMTE, CORINNE ALCOUFFE, JOCELYNE CLEMENT-LACROIX, GÉRARD CHANCEL, and XAVIER RONOT "INNOCUOUSNESS AND INTRACELLULAR DISTRIBUTION OF PKH67: A FLUORESCENT PROBE FOR CELL PROLIFERATION ASSESSMENT," In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal 37(10), 646-655, (1 November 2001). https://doi.org/10.1290/1071-2690(2001)037<0646:IAIDOP>2.0.CO;2
Received: 26 September 2000; Accepted: 1 June 2001; Published: 1 November 2001
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KEYWORDS
confocal laser scanning microscopy
endocytosis
flow cytometry
PKH67
proliferation
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