Intracellular IFN-g Staining for Mouse Cells by Flow Cytometry

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George Washington University, Washington DC
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BioLegend

Product Name:

Alexa Fluor® 647 anti-mouse IFN-γ Antibody

Catalog Number:

505814

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Mouse splenocytes were activated by anti-CD3/anti-CD28 for 96 hours, in polarizing conditions towards Tc1/Th1 or Tc17/Th17, followed by restimulation with PMA/Ionomycin in presence of brefeldin-A (golgi-stop). intracellular staining for IFN-g was done to find differences in cytokine production.

Great choice if you use both more than 4 color Flow cytometer.

We are a T cell immunology lab and the aim of this experiment was to dissect differences in cytokine production between T cells polarized to Tc1, Tc17 or Treg.

Specific goal of this experiment was to identify differences in IFN-g and Il-17 production by polarized T cells. We cultured splenocytes from p53 knock-out and p53wild type mice and under different polarizing conditions. We wanted to see whether p53 deficiency caused differences in T cell polarization and functionality by way of alteration in cytokine production.

Product description and advantage: During a 7 color flow cytometry experiment, using IFN-g in A647 helps in a great way as you may still use APC for a different marker. Thus the bright staining flourochrme APC is still open along with obtaining great staining intensity with this IFN-g A647 antibody from Biolegend.(I use 1:100 dilution and get excellent staining).

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Applications

Flow Cytometry

Sample

Mouse splenocytes

Primary Incubation

10 mins in staining buffer for Fc block

Blocking Agent

Fc block

Secondary Incubation

30 mins in staining buffer for surface receptor staining. (CD4/CD8) followed by fixation of cells in BD fix/perm buffer for 15 mins. in ice. Then washed with BD perm/wash buffer and 30 mins in IFN-g antibody diluted in perm/wash buffer with dilution of 1:100 and kept on ice

Tertiary Incubation

30 mins in IFN-g antibody diluted in perm/wash buffer with dilution of 1:100 and kept on ice

Detection

Flow cytometry

Results Summary

Mouse splenocytes from two different strains were polarized towards Tc1/Th1 or Tc17/ Th17 and then re-stimulated for 4 hrs to find differences in cytokine production. There was a difference in amount of cytokine production after re-stimulation between the two groups as depicted by intracellular cytokine staining.

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Good specificity, good fluorescence intensity.

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Nothing much.

The Bottom Line

Good antibody to determine intracellular Interferon-gamma. It being Alexa647 gives you the advantage of using more colors if you are using a more than 4 color flow cytometer.

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