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ArticleScientific reports2018

A Microfluidic Fluorescent Flow Cytometry Capable of Quantifying Cell Sizes and Numbers of Specific Cytosolic Proteins.

Xiufeng Li, Beiyuan Fan, Lixing Liu, Deyong Chen, Shanshan Cao, Dong Men, Junbo Wang, Jian Chen

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Xiufeng LiState Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing City, China.
Beiyuan FanState Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing City, China.
Lixing LiuState Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing City, China.
Deyong ChenState Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing City, China.
Shanshan CaoState Key Lab of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China.
Dong MenState Key Lab of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. d.men@wh.iov.cn.
Junbo WangState Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing City, China. jbwang@mail.ie.ac.cn.
Jian ChenState Key Lab of Transducer Technology, Institute of Electronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing City, China. chenjian@mail.ie.ac.cn.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 61431019National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 61671430
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study presents a microfluidics based cytometry capable of characterizing cell sizes and counting numbers of specific cytosolic proteins where cells were first bound by antibodies labelled with fluorescence and then aspirated into a constriction microchannel in which fluorescent levels were measured. These raw fluorescent pulses were further divided into a rising domain, a stable domain and a declining domain. In addition, antibody solutions with labelled fluorescence were aspirated through the constriction microchannel, yielding curves to translate raw fluorescent levels to protein concentrations. By using key parameters of three domains as well as the calibration curves, cell diameters and the absolute number of β-actins at the single-cell level were quantified as 14.2 ± 1.7 μm and 9.62 ± 4.29 × 10

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A549 CellsCell Line, TumorCell SizeCytoplasmCytosolFlow CytometryFluorescenceHeLa CellsHep G2 CellsHumansMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMicrofluidicsProteinsSingle-Cell AnalysisProteins

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PMID30242168
PMCPMC6155059

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