Spectral Flow Cytometry Capabilities

Spectral unmixing for deeper immunoprofiling
Intuitive panel design for customizing panels
Autofluorescence extraction for improved sensitivity and resolution

How does spectral flow cytometry work?

Spectral flow cytometry offers unique optical collection and analytical capabilities enabling the use of a wide range of fluorochrome combinations without reconfiguring the system for each application, resulting in exceptional sensitivity with simple and intuitive operations. Full spectrum signatures are generated for each fluorochrome bound to cellular markers that are used to identify different cell types. Different signatures present in a multicolor sample are then unmixed to allow the use of fluorochromes with close emission peaks in the same sample. This expansion in fluorochrome options and panel size potential, along with the vacuum-powered fluidics system, makes the Cytek® Aurora spectral flow cytometry particularly suitable for studies where unique biomarker signatures are sought or sample availability is limited.

In a conventional flow cytometer, pacific blue and brilliant violet 421 (BV421) cannot be used together as the spectral signatures are too similar. In spectral flow cytometry, pacific blue and BV421 have enough distinctions (a complexity index of 0.78) in their spectral signatures to be used in combination.

Advantages of spectral flow cytometry

More detection

5 lasers with 64 fluorescence detectors

Greater Flexibility

Use of a wide array of new fluorochrome combinations without the need to reconfigure optical filters

Outstanding Sensitivity

Unmixing of fluorochrome with close emission peaks
Use of autofluorescence extraction to improve data clarity

More colors

Detection of up to 40 different cell types/targets in the same multicolor sample

High Value System

Larger datasets generated from smaller sample sizes

Advanced technology with full analytical compatibility and familiar workflows

Spectral flow cytometry offers several advantages over conventional flow cytometry and at the same time is amenable to complex analyses of multiparameter flow cytometric data such as the t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (tSNE) analysis that allows for an unbiased analysis of all markers in the panel to help discern phenotypic changes within cell subsets that would otherwise go undiscovered. Spectral flow cytometry has all the capabilities of conventional flow cytometry, follows the same workflow and shares the same requirements, while expanding its functionalities.

4T1-Luc2-1A4 tSNE analysis Plotting traditional gating populations over the tSNE map allows the visualization of shifts in the expression of any panel markers (population shifts) between treatment groups

Advanced technology with full analytical compatibility and familiar workflows

Big insights from small samples

Our expert flow cytometry team can perform deep immunophenotyping investigation of your in vivo study to capture shifts that occur in the immune response triggered by test agent treatment. Below is a list of our standard spectral panels. These panels have the capacity for additional markers to be added and completely custom panels can be developed for your assay needs.

組織型	抗体/色素
CD45	全血球細胞マーカー
CD45 (mouse)	Mouse immune cell exclusion
CD3	汎T細胞マーカー
CD4	CD4+ T 細胞マーカー
CD8	CD8+ T 細胞マーカー
FoxP3	制御性T細胞マーカー
CD56	ナチュラルキラーまたはナチュラルキラー T 細胞マーカー
CD16	Differentiation marker
CD19	B cell marker
CD20	B cell marker
CD11b	Pan-myeloid lineage marker
CD68	Macrophage marker
HLA-DR	M1 macrophage marker
CD163	M2 macrophage marker
CD14	Monocyte marker
CD33	Myeloid delineation
CD84	MDSC marker
CD11c	樹状細胞マーカー
BDCA3 (CD141)	DC1 subset marker
BDCA1 (CD1c)	DC2 subset marker
CCD123	pDC marker/Basophil marker
CD66b	Neutrophil marker
CD15	Neutrophil marker
CD86	成熟マーカー
死細胞検出試薬	死細胞の除外

組織型	抗体/色素
CD45	全血球細胞マーカー
CD3	汎T細胞マーカー
CD4	CD4+ T 細胞マーカー
CD8	CD8+ T 細胞マーカー
FoxP3	制御性T細胞マーカー
CD25	制御性T細胞マーカー
CD44	活性化/メモリーマーカー
CD62L	ナイーブT細胞/メモリーマーカー
PD-1	Activation/Exhaustion marker
CD69	活性化マーカー
LAG-3	Activation/Exhaustion marker
TIM-3	Exhaustion marker
ICOS	活性化マーカー
グランザイム B	細胞傷害性マーカー
CKi-67	増殖マーカー
CD49b/CD335	ナチュラルキラーまたはナチュラルキラー T 細胞マーカー
CD19	B cell marker
CD11b	Pan-myeloid lineage marker
Ly-6G	Granulocytic-MDSC/ Neutrophil marker
Ly-6C	Monocytic-MDSC/Monocyte marker
CD11c	樹状細胞マーカー
CD24	Dendritic cell delineation
F4/80	Pan-macrophage marker
MHCクラスⅡ	M1 macrophage & dendritic cell marker
CD206	M2 macrophage marker
CD103	DC1 subset marker
XCR1	Cross presenting/Migratory dendritic cell marker
CD80	成熟マーカー
CD86	成熟マーカー
MARG1	Myeloid functional marker
iNOS	Myeloid functional marker
PD-L1	Immunosuppression
死細胞検出試薬	死細胞の除外

Panel 2: Antibody/Dye	説明
Counting Fluorosphere Beads	Cell enumeration reagent
CD45	全血球細胞マーカー
死細胞検出試薬	死細胞の除外

抗体/色素	説明
CD45	全血球細胞マーカー
CD3	汎T細胞マーカー
CD4	CD4+ T 細胞マーカー
CD8	CD8+ T 細胞マーカー
TCRgd	Gamma Delta T cell marker
FoxP3	制御性T細胞マーカー
CD25	Activation/regulatory T cell marker
CD69	活性化マーカー
LAG3	Activation/Exhaustion marker
CD27	活性化マーカー
ICOS	活性化マーカー
TIM3	Exhaustion marker
PD-1	Activation/Exhaustion marker
TIGIT	Exhaustion marker
TCF7	Exhaustion marker
グランザイム B	細胞傷害性マーカー
CXCR5	T cell recruitment
CXCR3	T cell recruitment
CD56	ナチュラルキラーまたはナチュラルキラー T 細胞マーカー
CD16	ナチュラルキラーまたはナチュラルキラー T 細胞マーカー
CD19	B cell marker
CD20	B cell marker
Ki-67	増殖マーカー
CD45RA	Memory T cell delineation
CD45RO	Memory T cell delineation
CCR7	Memory T cell delineation
CD62L	Memory T cell delineation
CD95	Memory T cell delineation
CD103	Memory T cell delineation
死細胞検出試薬	死細胞の除外

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