Re: Red-excitable dyes

Howard Shapiro (hms@shapirolab.com)
Mon, 1 Jul 1996 20:29:07 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Haze -

>I'm looking for a comercial source of the 633nm excitable dye
>carboxy-naphthol-fluorescein-diacetate.

That was originally made by Molecular Probes; if they don't have it, I don't
know who else would.

> Also I would be interested to
>hear of any other red-excitable dyes that can be used for viability
>measurements - particularly in animal cells

Most people would consider TO-PRO-3 and TOTO-3 usable for dye exclusion
viability tests in animal cells, although these dyes do tend to get in
slowly. With your experience, you might want to look at the oxonol
DiTBAC4(5), available from Molecular Probes; while this is nominally a
membrane potential stain, it will stain the intracellular contents of cells
with damaged membranes, making them a lot brighter than cells with intact
membranes and no membrane potential.

-Howard


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