Using FRET to quantify changes in integrin structures in human leukocytes induced by chemoattractants with multi-frequency flow cytometry

Jesus Sambrano Jr.; Yelena Smagley; Alexandre Chigaev; Larry A. Sklar; Jessica P. Houston

doi:10.1117/12.2253340

23 February 2017 Using FRET to quantify changes in integrin structures in human leukocytes induced by chemoattractants with multi-frequency flow cytometry

Jesus Sambrano Jr., Yelena Smagley, Alexandre Chigaev, Larry A. Sklar, Jessica P. Houston

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Proceedings Volume 10065, Biophotonics and Immune Responses XII; 100650W (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253340
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Flow cytometry for single cell counting uses optical measurements to report multiple cell features such as cell morphology, cell phenotype, and microenvironmental changes. Time-resolved flow cytometry is a unique method that involves the detection of the average fluorescence lifetime as a cytometric parameter. Measuring the average fluorescence lifetime is helpful when discriminating between more than one emission signal from a single cell because of spectrally overlapping emission. In this contribution, we present preliminary measurements toward a study that advances simple time-resolved flow cytometry and introduces a technique to measure fluorescence lifetime values from single cells labeled with a Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) pair. Specifically, donor fluorophore fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) fluorescence lifetime is measured to identify its proximity to the acceptor fluorophore. We hypothesize that our time-resolved flow cytometry approach can resolve changes in FRET in order to study integrin structures on the surface of leukocyte cells. Our results show that FITC has an average lifetime of 4.2 +/-0.1 nsec, and an average fluorescence lifetime of 2.4 nsec +/-0.2 nsec when engaged in FRET. After the release of FRET (e.g. dequenched) the average fluorescence lifetime of FITC was measured to be 3.1 +/- 0.5 nsec. Phasor graphs reveal large distributions of fluorescence lifetimes on a per cell basis, suggesting the existence of multiple fluorescence lifetimes. These data suggest more than one integrin conformation occurs throughout the cell population. The impact of this work is the addition of quantitative information for FRET efficiency values and determination of FRET calculations using high-throughput data.

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Jesus Sambrano Jr., Yelena Smagley, Alexandre Chigaev, Larry A. Sklar, and Jessica P. Houston "Using FRET to quantify changes in integrin structures in human leukocytes induced by chemoattractants with multi-frequency flow cytometry", Proc. SPIE 10065, Biophotonics and Immune Responses XII, 100650W (23 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253340

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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Flow cytometry

Modulation

Proteins

Receptors

Data acquisition

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