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RV: MitoTracker Red and Fixation

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Hi all.

 

Sorry. It takes me a little. First of all it was in 2002. Some parts of the HD with the images were corrupted. Finally here is the post of images.

 

https://postimg.org/gallery/24sbw7vr0/b946c360/

 

The first image is the plasmid EYFP-mito expressed in a fibroblast or in a smooth muscle cell (in vivo).

 

The last 6 are the in vivo images. The rest of them are some fixed cells with PFA or in vivo with loss of colocalization after the exposure to Antimycine A.

 

Best regards,

Dr. Konstantín Levitskiy

Servicio de Microscopía

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De: Indig, Fred (NIH/NIA/IRP) [E] [mailto:[hidden email]]
Enviado el: miércoles, 28 de septiembre de 2016 17:01
Para: [hidden email]
Asunto: RE: MitoTracker Red and Fixation

 

Dear Dr. Levitskiy,

 

Your posting is very interesting. Would you be willing to share an image or two illustrating the problem?

 

Sincerely,

 

Fred E. Indig, Ph.D.

Head, Confocal Imaging Facility

 

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From: Microscopia-IBIS [[hidden email]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 7:26 AM
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Subject: Re: MitoTracker Red and Fixation

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Hi.

 

About 10 years ago we bought MitoTrackerDeepRed (MTDR) and we had some use in vivo. When we fixed we noticed something different. We expressed pEYFP-Mito in cells and after checking total colocalization with a dye we washed with a PFA, seeing how the dye was internalized in another place but with an aspect “similar to the mitochondria”. No was colocalization at all after fixing. We asked about it to Molecular probes, but with no answer.

 

Regards,

Dr. Konstantín Levitskiy

Servicio de Microscopía

InstitutodeBiomedicinadeSevilla - IBiS

Campus del Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío

Avda. Manuel Siurot s/nº

41013 Sevilla

Tlfno: 955 92 3030

Email: [hidden email]

Web: www.ibis-sevilla.es

 

 

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De: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] En nombre de Iain Johnson
Enviado el: martes, 27 de septiembre de 2016 19:14
Para: [hidden email]
Asunto: Re: MitoTracker Red and Fixation

 

Aldehyde fixation will certainly cause destaining because it kills the mitochondrial membrane potential that drives the electrophoretic uptake of the dye. Any dye that isn't coupled to protein will wash out.  

To maximize the protein coupling (which is thiol, not aldehyde, mediated), you want to make the mitochondrial interior as reduced as it can possibly be before you do the PFA. I used to use a quick 1 mM TCEP treatment step for this.

 

Iain

 

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On Sep 27, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Claire Brown, Dr. <[hidden email]> wrote:

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Hi All,

 

We are trying to fix some cells with MitoTracker Red. We usually use it live but were trying to do some photobleaching experiments. The dye seems to be quenching or washing out when we fix the cells. We tried using methanol free PFA and fixing at 37oC as the Probes protocol suggests.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Sincerely,

 

Claire