Martin D Bootman, Katja Rietdorf, Tony Collins, Simon Walker, Michael Sanderson
Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, CB22 3AT, United Kingdom. martin.bootman@babraham.ac.uk
Cold Spring Harbor protocols 2013 FebIn many situations, fluorescent Ca(2+) reporters are used to simply indicate that a change of Ca(2+) concentration has occurred. Monitoring the emission from a Ca(2+)-sensitive indicator can be sufficient to tell whether a signal has arisen, and what its kinetic/spatial parameters were. The emission from an indicator does not have a linear relationship to the Ca(2+) concentration within a cell; rather, the relationship between fluorescence emission and Ca(2+) concentration is described by a logistic function. Simply recording fluorescence emission, therefore, provides a relative indication of the magnitude of a Ca(2+) signal that should not be used for generating mean amplitude data. However, with a little consideration and effort, the fluorescence output can be calibrated to yield actual Ca(2+) concentration.
Martin D Bootman, Katja Rietdorf, Tony Collins, Simon Walker, Michael Sanderson. Converting fluorescence data into Ca2+ concentration. Cold Spring Harbor protocols. 2013 Feb;2013(2):126-9
PMID: 23378651
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