| Overview | Millipore’sFlowCellect?DNADamage(HistoneH2A.X)andCellCycleAnalysisKitisdesignedtoidentifythelinkagebetweenDNAdamageinrelationtocellcyclecheckpointsinflowcytometryapplications.ThekitincludesadirectlyconjugatedAnti-phospho-HistoneH2A.X(Ser139)AlexaFluor?488antibodyplusaDNAdye(PropidiumIodide)whichallowstheresearchertoperformbivariateanalysistoidentifywhereDNAdamagetakesplacerelativetothepositioningwithinthecellcycle.Thekitincludesanoptimizedprotocolwithallofthenecessarycomponentstoprovidetheresearcheratrue“plugandplay”designfortheirresearchwhenstudyingDNAdamageandcellcyclecheckpoints.Thisimmunocytochemicalmethodisverysensitive,anditoffersanassaytoscreenanti-tumordrugsateveryphaseofthecellcycle. 
 Inall,acomprehensiveunderstandingofDNAdamageanditsassociationwithcellcyclebehaviorcanprovidetheresearcherwithusefulinformationwhichwillbeimportantininterpretingtheintrinsicnatureofcellproliferation,apoptosis,DNArepair,andassistinthedevelopmentofanti-neoplasticagents.Millipore’sFlowCellect?DNADamage(HistoneH2A.X)andCellCycleAnalysisKitisdesignedtoallowtheresearchertoeasilyidentify,discriminate,andquantitatecellsundergoingDNAdamagerelativetoitspositioningwithinthecellcycle.
 
 AllFlowCellectkitsareoptimizedonguava?benchtopflowcytometers.FlowCellectkitscanbeusedonanyflowcytometerfollowingthesameprotocolprovidingresearchersareliableandfullyvalidatedsolutiontostudyDSBsandcellcycledistributionrightinthecomfortoftheirownlab.Thiskitcontainsoptimizedfixation,permeABIlization,wash,andflowbufferstoprovideresearcherswithacompletesolutionforbivariateanalysistoassessDNAdamageinrelationtopositioningwithinthecellcycle.
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