Author:
Celikkan Ferda Topal,Mungan Ceren,Sucu Merve,Uysal Fatma,Kahveci Selda,Hayme Serhat,Kuscu Nilay,Ozkavukcu Sinan,Celik-Ozenci Ciler,Can Alp
Abstract
AbstractChemical fixation is one of the most critical steps to retaining cellular targets as naturally as possible. Recent developments in microscopy allow sophisticated detection and measuring techniques with which spatio-temporal molecular alterations is conceivable. Here, we document the fixation competence of glyoxal (Gly), a less-toxic dialdehyde molecule, and paraformaldehyde (PFA) side-by-side (with or without Triton-X 100 permealization) in live- and fixed-cell preparations including human stem cells, spermatozoa, mouse oocytes/embryos using super-resolution microscopy. Although Gly seemed to act faster than PFA, catastrophic consequences were found not acceptable, especially in oocytes and embryos. Due to cell lysate and immunocytochemistry surveys, it was obvious that PFA is superior to Gly in retaining cellular proteins in situ with little/no background staining. In many samples, PFA revealed more reliable and consistent results regarding the protein quantity and cellular localization corresponding to previously defined patterns in the literature. Although the use of Gly is beneficial as indicated by previous reports, we concluded that it does not meet the requirement for proper fixation, at least for the tested cell types and proteins.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cited by
3 articles.
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