Tetramethyl Rhodamine Methyl Ester (TMRM) is Suitable for Cytofluorometric Measurements of Mitochondrial Membrane Potential in Cells Treated with Digitonin |
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Authors: | Daniel Floryk Josef Hou?těk |
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Institution: | (1) Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Physiology, CZ-142 20 Prague, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | A new method for cytofluorometric analysis of mitochondrial membrane potential has been developed by using TMRM as a cationic, mitochondrial selective probe. The method is based on limited treatment of cultured cells with digitonin which permeabilises the plasma membrane and leaves mitochondria intact. The resulting signal of TMRM-stained cells thus represents only the probe accumulated in mitochondria. Fibroblasts and cybrids were used as a model cell systems and optimal conditions for digitonin treatment and staining by TMRM were described. The TMRM signal collapsed by valinomycin, KCN and antimycin A and FCCP titration was used to gradually lower and characterise the stability of . The method is suitable for sensitive measurement of in different types of cultured cells. |
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Keywords: | Mitochondrial membrane potential TMRM cytofluorometry digitonin |
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