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Measurement of tumor necrosis factor activity by flow cytometry

✍ Scribed by Ann Lévesque; Alain Paquet; Michel Pagé

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Weight
292 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
0196-4763

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Tumor necrosis factor‐α (TNF‐α) is a monokine of 17 kDa produced by activated macrophages and various cells involved in the immune system. We propose a new method for the measurement of TNF activity using flow cytometry. After an incubation with TNF, L929 cells were harvested and treated with a calcein‐AM and ethidium homodimer‐1 solution. Nonfluorescent calcein‐AM is hydrolyzed by intracellular esterases to yield fluorescent calcein. The ethidium homodimer‐1 is a high‐affinity red fluorescent DNA dye that is internalized only through altered cell membranes. A very good correlation was observed between the calcein fluorescence intensity and the number of viable cells as well as the ethidium fluorescence and the number of cells with altered membranes. The assay is sensitive, inexpensive, and correlates with the already reported crystal violet assay while measuring membrane alteration by TNF. It allows the simultaneous measurement of total living and dead cells. There is no interference with culture medium components. This method is rapid and may be used for routine measurement of TNF activity. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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