Nuclear Antigens and DNA

These washless procedures require proper titration of antibodies.

Procedure A ( frozen cells)

  1. If adherent, trypsinize and wash once with PBS (without Ca++ and M++, with 2% Bovine Serum Albumin)
  2. Pellet cells and resuspend in ice-cold Freezing Buffer to a minimum concentration of 105 cells in 50 ml and store at –80°C
  3. While thawed cells are slowly agitated in an ice bath mounted on a mixer, add 200 ml Lysis-DNA Staining Solution and mix for 15 minutes
  4. Add 25 ml FITC-conjugated antibody and mix for 30 minutes
  5. Analyze

Reagents:

  • Freezing buffer:
    250 mM sucrose
    40 mM sodium citrate
    5% v/v DMSO
    pH 7.6
  • Lysis-DNA staining solution:
    0.5% Nonidet P40
    20 mg/ml propidium iodide (PI)
    0.2 mg/ml RNAse
    0.5 nM EDTA
    pH 7.2

Procedure B (fresh cells)

  1. Suspend 2 x 105 fresh cells in PBS and mix with 100 ml Lysing Solution supplemented with appropriate dilution of antibody and incubate 30 min at room temperature.
  2. Add 100 ml of an appropriate dilution of the secondary FITC-conjugated antibody containing PI (final concentration 10 mg/ml) and RNAse (final concentration 100 mg/ml) and incubate 30 minutes RT.

Reagent:

  • Lysing solution:
    1% Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA)
    0.5% Triton X-100
    0.2 mg/ml EDTA
    in PBS

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