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The electronic form of this document may be cited in the following style:
Human Genome Program, U.S. Department of Energy, DOE Human Genome Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop IV, 1994.

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Sizing DNA Fragments by Flow Cytometry - Extending the Size Range

Jeffrey T. Petty,[1] Mitchell E. Johnson,[1] Peter M. Goodwin,[1] James H. Jett,[2] John C. Martin,[2] and Richard A. Keller[1]
[1]Chemical Science and Technology Division, MS M888, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545. [2]Life Science Division, MS M888, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545.

Using flow cytometry, sizes of DNA fragments were obtained from the fluorescence intensity of samples stained with a thiazole orange dye. The stained fragments passed through a low power (30 mW) continuous-wave laser beam one at a time using transit times of 1 - 5 ms. As little as 50 fg of DNA was analyzed at a rate of 40 fragments/sec in times ranging from 1 - 15 min. A detectable lower size limit of 1.5 kilobase pairs (kbp) was demonstrated, and a linear relationship between fluorescence intensity and fragment length was observed for the fragments >/= 4.4 kbp. Issues relating to size resolution in the 2 - 50 kbp range are discussed.

This work is supported by the Los Alamos Center for Human Genome Studies under United States Department of Energy Contract W-7405-ENG-36 and the National Flow Cytometry Resource, NIH RR 01315.

[1] Goodwin, P. M.; Johnson, M. E.; Martin, J. C.; Ambrose, W. P.; Marrone, B. L.; Jett, J. H.; Keller, R. A. (1993) Rapid Sizing of Individual Fluorescently Stained DNA Fragments by Flow Cytometry Nucleic Acids Res. 21, 803.
[2] Johnson, M. E.; Goodwin, P. M.; Ambrose, W. P.; Martin, J. C.; Marrone, B. L.; Jett, J. H.; Keller, R. A. (1993) Sizing of DNA Fragments by Flow Cytometry SPIE 1895, 69.