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Detection and Quantification of Calcium Ions in the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Cytoplasm of Cultured Cells Using Fluorescent Reporter Proteins and ImageJ Software

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BIO-PROTOCOL
卷 13, 期 16, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.7554/eLife.74805

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Calcium imaging; G-CEPIA1er; GCaMP6f; ImageJ; Endoplasmic reticulum; Cytoplasm; Cultured cells; Fluorescence microscopy

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This protocol describes a method for detecting and quantifying calcium ions in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and cytoplasm of cultured cells using fluorescent reporter proteins and ImageJ software. The fluorescence brightness of cells expressing these reporter proteins reflects the calcium ion concentration in each intracellular region.
This protocol describes a method for detecting and quantifying calcium ions in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and cytoplasm of cultured cells using fluorescent reporter proteins and ImageJ software. Genetically engineered fluorescent reporter proteins, such as G-CEPIA1er and GCaMP6f, localize to intracellular regions of interest (i.e., ER and cytoplasm) and emit green fluorescence upon binding to calcium ions. In this way, the fluorescence brightness of cells transfected with expression vectors for these reporters reflects the calcium ion concentration in each intracellular region. Here, we describe procedures for observing cultured cells expressing these fluorescent reporters under a fluorescence microscope, analyzing the obtained image using the free image analysis software ImageJ (https://imagej.net/ij/index.html), and determining the average fluorescence brightness of multiple cells present in the image. The current method allows us to quickly and easily quantify calcium ions on an image containing multiple cells and to determine whether there are relative differences in intracellular calcium ion concentration among experiments with different conditions.

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