'Intracellular flow cytometry permits quantitation of diverse molecular targets at the single-cell level. However, limitations in detection sensitivity inherently restrict the method, sometimes resulting in the inability to measure proteins of very low abundance or to differentiate cells expressing subtly different protein concentrations. To improve these measurements, an enzymatic amplification ... More
Reduction in muscle fibre number during the adaptive radiation of notothenioid fishes: a phylogenetic perspective.
Authors:Johnston IA, Fernández DA, Calvo J, Vieira VL, North AW, Abercromby M, Garland T
Journal:J Exp Biol
PubMed ID:12819266
'The fish fauna of the continental shelf of the Southern Ocean is dominated by a single sub-order of Perciformes, the Notothenioidei, which have unusually large diameter skeletal muscle fibres. We tested the hypothesis that in fast myotomal muscle a high maximum fibre diameter (FD(max)) was related to a reduction in ... More
Cytoskeletal-assisted dynamics of the mitochondrial reticulum in living cells.
Authors:Knowles MK, Guenza MG, Capaldi RA, Marcus AH
Journal:Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
PubMed ID:12417764
'Subcellular organelle dynamics are strongly influenced by interactions with cytoskeletal filaments and their associated motor proteins, and lead to complex multiexponential relaxations that occur over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Here we report spatio-temporal measurements of the fluctuations of the mitochondrial reticulum in osteosarcoma cells by using ... More
High-content single-cell drug screening with phosphospecific flow cytometry.
'Drug screening is often limited to cell-free assays involving purified enzymes, but it is arguably best applied against systems that represent disease states or complex physiological cellular networks. Here, we describe a high-content, cell-based drug discovery platform based on phosphospecific flow cytometry, or phosphoflow, that enabled screening for inhibitors against ... More
Fluorescent cell barcoding in flow cytometry allows high-throughput drug screening and signaling profiling.
Authors:Krutzik PO, Nolan GP
Journal:Nat Methods
PubMed ID:16628206
'Flow cytometry allows high-content, multiparameter analysis of single cells, making it a promising tool for drug discovery and profiling of intracellular signaling. To add high-throughput capacity to flow cytometry, we developed a cell-based multiplexing technique called fluorescent cell barcoding (FCB). In FCB, each sample is labeled with a different signature, ... More