Do you have suggestions on the best way to fix cells expressing mCherry-tagged proteins? I get gorgeous images using live cells, but I lose a lot of signal using a fixation protocol that works beautifully with eGFP and YFP...
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Dear Xinyu,
We have had good luck with that combination, as well as
mCerulean/mYFP/mCherry and mCerulean/mYFP/mStrawberry. Both of the latter
sets work well on our fixed dichroic Ultraview spinning disk system, which
has a custom built quad-pass dichroic that we acquired from Chroma. We have
no detectable bleedthough between these three channels using 442/514/568 nm
laser lines for excitation. By the book, Cherry looks like it should be
brighter and more stable, but Strawberry 'fits' our existing filter sets
(based on DsRed) much better.
I had expected that mVenus should be much better that YFP, but in my
hands (and filter sets) it did not offer any significant advantages. It
actually bleached _faster_ than mYFP under constant 514nm illumination.
Best regards,
-Steve
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Tufts University Medical School
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Dear listers,
One of our users wanted to image CFP and YFP labeled cells and would like to
add a third fluorecence protein reporter later. I was wondering if anybody
could make a recomendation on this third one.
Anybody has ever used a CFP/YFP/mCherry combination ?
Thank you very much.
Xinyu Zhao
Biomedical Imaging Core Lab
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Tel: 215-898-6730