scholarly journals Total cellular RNA content: correlation between flow cytometry and ultraviolet spectroscopy.

1980 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 493-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
K D Bauer ◽  
L A Dethlefsen

Total RNA content in Chinese hamster ovary and HeLa-S3 cells determined by ultraviolet spectroscopy is compared with the red fluorescence distribution of acridine orange-stained cells observed by flow cytometry. A correlation coefficient of 0.93 is obtained when these methods of estimating RNA content are compared after various RNAse treatments. These data suggest that acridine orange staining effectively quantitates total cellular RNA content when analyzed by flow cytometry, although DNA is also shown to contribute a low but significant background of red fluorescence.

2015 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Okumura ◽  
Kenji Masuda ◽  
Kazuhiko Watanabe ◽  
Kenji Miyadai ◽  
Koichi Nonaka ◽  
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1978 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 691-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
J V Watson ◽  
S H Chambers

Flow cytofluorimetric techniques with acridine orange staining have been used to study RNA levels of cells during and immediately after mitosis. It can be inferred from the histogram data that, of the mitotic cells, those in telophase have the highest RNA content, and that the rate of synthesis increases rapidly between anaphase and telophase. These inferences correlate with results obtained from parallel labeled precursor studies.


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