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. 2022:2386:129-145.
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1771-7_9.

Customizing Maxpar Direct Immune Profiling Assay with Additional Surface Marker and Intracellular Cytokine Staining Workflows for Expanded Mass Cytometry Panels

Carlene Petes #  1 , Stephen K H Li #  2 , Shariq Mujib #  2 , Michelle M Poulin  3 , Noah Saederup  3 , Andrew A Quong  3 , Christina Loh  2
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Customizing Maxpar Direct Immune Profiling Assay with Additional Surface Marker and Intracellular Cytokine Staining Workflows for Expanded Mass Cytometry Panels

Carlene Petes et al. Methods Mol Biol. 2022.

Abstract

Mass cytometry, or cytometry by time-of-flight (the basis for Fluidigm® CyTOF® technology), is a system for single-cell detection using antibodies tagged with metal probes. Without the need for compensation, the highly parametric Helios™ mass cytometer has a detection range of 135 distinct mass channels (75-209 Da). Optimized for mass cytometry, the Maxpar® Direct™ Immune Profiling Assay™ is a dry, metal-tagged antibody cocktail for immunophenotyping 37 immune cell populations found in human peripheral blood in a single tube. The Maxpar Direct Assay utilizes 31 mass channels for marker detection and live/dead viability staining, with at least 14 additional marker channels available from the Fluidigm catalog for flexible custom panel design. Here, we describe a workflow combining the assay with additional surface and intracellular cytokine antibodies for peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) staining using lanthanide-, bismuth-, and cadmium-tagged antibodies.

Keywords: CyTOF; Immunophenotyping; Mass cytometry; Maxpar; Metal-tagged antibodies.

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