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1 March 2009 Time-gated flow cytometry: an ultra-high selectivity method to recover ultra-rare-event μ-targets in high-background biosamples
Dayong Jin, James A. Piper, Robert C. Leif, Sean Yang, Belinda C. Ferrari, Jingli Yuan, Guilan Wang, Lidia M. Vallarino, John W. Williams
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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 024023 (March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3103770
Abstract
A fundamental problem for rare-event cell analysis is auto-fluorescence from nontarget particles and cells. Time-gated flow cytometry is based on the temporal-domain discrimination of long-lifetime (<1 μs) luminescence-stained cells and can render invisible all nontarget cell and particles. We aim to further evaluate the technique, focusing on detection of ultra-rare-event 5-µm calibration beads in environmental water dirt samples. Europium-labeled 5-µm calibration beads with improved luminescence homogeneity and reduced aggregation were evaluated using the prototype UV LED excited time-gated luminescence (TGL) flow cytometer (FCM). A BD FACSAria flow cytometer was used to sort accurately a very low number of beads (<100 events), which were then spiked into concentrated samples of environmental water. The use of europium-labeled beads permitted the demonstration of specific detection rates of 100%±30% and 91%±3% with 10 and 100 target beads, respectively, that were mixed with over one million nontarget autofluorescent background particles. Under the same conditions, a conventional FCM was unable to recover rare-event fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) calibration beads. Preliminary results on Giardia detection are also reported. We have demonstrated the scientific value of lanthanide-complex biolabels in flow cytometry. This approach may augment the current method that uses multifluorescence-channel flow cytometry gating.
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Dayong Jin, James A. Piper, Robert C. Leif, Sean Yang, Belinda C. Ferrari, Jingli Yuan, Guilan Wang, Lidia M. Vallarino, and John W. Williams "Time-gated flow cytometry: an ultra-high selectivity method to recover ultra-rare-event μ-targets in high-background biosamples," Journal of Biomedical Optics 14(2), 024023 (1 March 2009). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3103770
Published: 1 March 2009
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KEYWORDS
Flow cytometry
Particles
Ultraviolet radiation
Ultraviolet light emitting diodes
Luminescence
Europium
Calibration
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