FLT Flow Cytometry

SETA BioMedicals offers advanced fluorescent dyes, tandems and labels (fluorochromes) optimized for Single Cell Fluorescence Lifetime Flow Cytometry (SC-FLFC) and High-Throughput Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Flow Cytometry (HTFLIM-FC), enabling robust, fluorescence lifetime-based, single and multi-cell analyses. These lifetime-based fluorescent reporters cover the full spectral range from UV to near-IR with analyte-sensitive fluorescence lifetimes (FLTs) from ps up to tens of ns.

Excitation
laser line
[nm]
Free dye / Ab conjugate* Environment
sensitive
FLT
lmax Ab
[nm]
lmax Fl
[nm]
Brightness at the excitation laser line
[M–1cm–1]
FLT [1]
[ns]

380

Seta-375 / IgG (D/P = 5)

No

372 / 372

476 / 480

20,500 / 50,000

3.2 / 3.5

SeTau-380 / BSA

No

381 / 383

480 / 468

900 / 3,000

32.5 / 30.6

405

SeTau-405 / IgG (D/P = 2)

No

405 / 405

518 / 518

11,000 / 6,900

9.3 / 8.9

436

SeTau-425 / BSA (D/P = 2)

 

425 / 427

545 /532

1,500 / 1,000

26.2 / n.d.**

488

SeTau-488 / IgG (D/P = 2)

Yes

486 / 484

532 / 530

22,800 / 71,600

1.2 / 2.3****

SeTau-500 / IgG (D/P = 2)

Yes

502 / 500

568 / 563

31,200 / 53,100

1.7 / 2.6****

532

Seta-555/Seta555-IgG (D/P = 2)

 

555/ 556

570/ 571

3,400 / ?

0.2 / ?

594

Seta-633 / IgG (D/P = 2)

Yes

633 /637

644 /647

3,600 / 23,700

0.25 / 1.49

Seta-640 / IgG (D/P = 2)

Yes

636 / 648

646 / 656

4,600 / 19,900

0.7 / 2.7

635

Seta-650

No

647

665

50,300

1.0

Seta-660 / IgG (D/P = 2)

 

661 / 665

672 / 675

4,900 / 38,900

1.5 / n.d.**

SeTau-647 / IgG (D/P = 2)

No

649 / 648

695 / 694

74,000 / 128,600

3.2 / 3.1

650

Seta-650

No

651

671

65,400

1.0

Seta-660 / IgG (D/P = 2)

 

661 / 665

672 / 675

10,700 / 83,800

1.5 / n.d.**

SeTau-665 / IgG (D/P = 2)

 

664 / 662

712 / 716

47,900 / 54,200

3.1 / n.d.**

SeTau-670 / IgG (D/P = 4)

No

673 / 672

694 / 693

39,600 /61,600

1.62 / 1.75

Square 650-pH at pH 5.6 / pH 9.0

pH***

653 / 535

671 / 663

20,900 / 260 (3,600 at l* = 532 nm)

1.2 / 0.5

Square-660/Oligonucleotides

Yes

657/676

676/695

? / ?

0.29/2.73

680

Seta-680

No

676

694

50,400

1.0

SeTau-680

 

683

705

122,300

2.9

Seta-670 / IgG (D/P = 5) / BSA (D/P = 1.5)

Yes

667 / 670 / 681

688 / 693 / 696

8,200 / 11,700 / 47,300

0.42 / 0.85 / 2.43

700

Zy7

No

749

774

8,400

0.6

750

Seta-750

No

773

780

230,000

0.6

780

Seta-780

No

777

807

7,400

0.6

 
* Fluorochrome conjugated to antibody (protein). D/P is dye-to-protein ratio

** Not determined

*** pH-sensitive dye, excitable at 650 nm under acidic pH and at 532 nm at basic pH emitting at 660–670 nm under all conditions [4].

**** highly lifetime sensitive

***** low lifetime sensitivity without FRET acceptor these dyes are not useful! – we should include dyes which change the lifetimes like our semi-SQ dyes and SQ dyes when binding to something! SRs are not useful here!

References

[1] Acquired with ISS Chronos FD at 25 °C

[2] Nat Commun 15, 7376 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51125-y

[3] https://www.swabianinstruments.com/applications/fluorescence-lifetime-flow-cytometry/

[4] Analytical Biochemistry, 2009, V390, 136-140.

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