Increase in acridine orange (AO) fluorescence intensity of monocytes cultured in plastic tissue culture plates as measured by flow cytometry
✍ Scribed by Andrzej Myc; John G. Pizzolo; Krzysztof Dygulski; Myron R. Melamed
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 396 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0196-4763
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✦ Synopsis
Although the green-red fluorescence of A 0 is an accepted measure of DNA-RNA content, respectively, it is actually a measure of the fluorescence of dye bound to nucleic acids, and may vary with changes in accessibility to the dye. It has been shown for example that extraction of nuclear proteins results in a marked increase in DNA stainability. Moreover, in certain cell systems the binding of fluorochromes correlates with structural modifications in chromatin that accompany cell differentiation. We report here that changes in green & red fluorescence intensity also occur in long-term monocyte cultures. The increased red fluorescence intensity observed in cultured monocytes may reflect ribosomal RNA synthesis and the increased green fluorescence enhanced A 0 accessibility to DNA due to changes in chromatin organization. We compared cultured monocytes from bladder cancer patients and healthy donors. The results indicate a small but statistically significantly greater increase in mean green & red fluorescence of cultured monocytes from the cancer patients. These fluorescence variations may indicate differences in the immunologic status of cancer patients and/or be related to disease state.