Cell fixation in zinc salt solution is compatible with DNA damage response detection by phospho-specific antibodies

Cytometry Part A

Volumn 79 A, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 470-476

  Zhao, Hong ^a   Li, Jiangwei ^a   Traganos, Frank ^a   Halicka, H Dorota ^a   Zarebski, Mirosław ^b   Dobrucki, Jurek ^b   Darzynkiewicz, Zbigniew ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

ATM activation; Cell cycle; Click chemistry; Confocal microscopy; DNA replication; EdU incorporation; GammaH2AX; S phase

Indexed keywords

4',6 DIAMIDINO 2 PHENYLINDOLE; ATM PROTEIN; CAMPTOTHECIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE INHIBITOR; FIXATIVE; FORMALDEHYDE; H2AFX PROTEIN, HUMAN; HISTONE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; INORGANIC SALT; PHOSPHOSPECIFIC ANTIBODY; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN; ZINC;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; STAINING; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANTIBODIES, PHOSPHO-SPECIFIC; APOPTOSIS; CAMPTOTHECIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE I; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIXATIVES; FLUORESCENCE; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HISTONES; HUMANS; INDOLES; LASER SCANNING CYTOMETRY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SALTS; STAINING AND LABELING; TOPOISOMERASE I INHIBITORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZINC;

EID: 79956139075     PISSN: 15524922     EISSN: 15524930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cyto.a.21060     Document Type: Article

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