The capability of the new luminescent probe (dibenzo[h,j]dipyrido[3,2-a:2′,3′-c]phenazine)bis(2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) dication, (RB2Z), to discriminate live and dead cells has been tested on rat hepatocytes and mouse lymphocytes. RB2Z-stained cells were analyzed using flow cytometry, fluorescence (confocal) microscopy and time-resolved luminescence measurements. The established viability probes propidium iodide (PI) and SYTOX® green (SG) were used as controls. The intense luminescence of RB2Z at 606 nm is localized in the nucleus of nonviable cells. Viability measurements by flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy using RB2Z as dead-cell marker yield the same results as PI and SG. The luminescence lifetime of RB2Z also displays sensitivity to cell viability (0.45 and 0.82 μs in presence of fully viable and dead cells, respectively). This ruthenium complex is photostable under laser sources and its 200 nm Stokes shift facilitates multicolor labeling experiments in flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. Unlike the currently available probes, the long-lived excited state of RB2Z also allows assays based on luminescence decay measurements.
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1 July 2000
A Ruthenium Probe for Cell Viability Measurement Using Flow Cytometry, Confocal Microscopy and Time-resolved Luminescence¶
M. Emilia Jiménez-Hernández,
Guillermo Orellana,
Francisco Montero,
M. Teresa Portolés
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Photochemistry and Photobiology
Vol. 72 • No. 1
July 2000
Vol. 72 • No. 1
July 2000