Simultaneous flow cytometric immunophenotyping of necroptosis, apoptosis and RIP1-dependent apoptosis.
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134-135
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56 - 66
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10.1016/j.ymeth.2017.10.013
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Methods
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Flow cytometry was been widely used to measure apoptosis for many decades but the researcher has no definitive way of determining other forms of cell death using this technology. The use of Western Blot technology has numerous drawbacks in that all the cells in the sample whether live, dead or maybe undergoing multiple discrete forms of cell death are analysed as one population. Flow cytometry given that it can analyse different sub-populations of cells within a sample would reveal the expression of cell death markers within these sub-populations rather than just give a single result from the entire population. Here we describe a flow cytometric assay fully realising that potential by the use of anti-RIP-3 (Receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase 3) and anti-active caspase-3 fluorescently tagged antibodies and a fixable live dead fluorescent dye. This allows the determination of the degree of necroptosis, apoptosis and RIP1-dependent apoptosis within live and dead populations. Necroptosis was identified by the up-regulation of RIP3, while RIP1-dependent apoptosis was described by double positive for RIP3/active Caspase-3 events in live and dead populations. Apoptotic cells were defined by an active-Caspase-3+ve/RIP3-ve phenotype. Pan-caspase blocker zVAD and RIP1 inhibitors GSK'481 or necrostatin-1 revealed interesting modulations of such sub-populations of Jurkat cells. This novel flow cytometric assay employing two antibodies and a fixable viability probe provides the researcher with in-depth analysis of various forms of regulated forms of cell death beyond what is currently available and is a major methodological advancement in this field.
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Lee, HL; Pike, R; Chong, MHA; Vossenkamper, A; Warnes, GCollections
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