Cell viability assay kit CellTiter-Fluor™
cytotoxicityfor medical researchprotease

cell viability assay kit
cell viability assay kit
cell viability assay kit
cell viability assay kit
cell viability assay kit
cell viability assay kit
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Characteristics

Applications
for medical research, cell viability, cytotoxicity
Tested parameter
protease
Sample type
for live cells
Analysis mode
fluorescence

Description

Multiplex with many other luminescent assays Normalizing data for live-cell numbers make results more comparable to other data How the Assay Works The CellTiter-Fluor™ Cell Viability Assay is a non-lytic, single-reagent-addition fluorescence assay that measures the relative number of viable cells in a population. The assay is based on measurement of a conserved and constitutive protease activity within live cells and therefore serves as a biomarker of cell viability. The live-cell protease activity is restricted to intact viable cells and is measured using a fluorogenic, cell-permeant, peptide substrate (Gly-Phe-AFC). The substrate enters intact cells, where it is cleaved by the live-cell protease activity to generate a fluorescent signal proportional to the number of living cells. The live-cell protease becomes inactive upon loss of membrane integrity and leakage into the surrounding culture medium. Multiplexing with the CellTiter-Fluor™ Assay The CellTiter-Fluor™ Assay also can be used in a single-well, sequential, multiplex format with other downstream assay chemistries to normalize data by cell number. Data from the assay can serve as an internal control and allow identification of errors resulting from cell clumping or compound cytotoxicity. In the example data on the right, ionomycin and PMA work cooperatively to stimulate NFAT-dependent gene expression; however, a higher concentration of ionomycin results in decreased expression. By simultaneously monitoring viability with the CellTiter-Fluor™ Assay, it is shown that the decrease in expression is due to a decrease in viable cells.

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