Abstract
Lysosomes play key roles in different cellular processes such as autophagy, phagocytosis, and apoptosis. Lysosomal dysfunction is related to many diseases. Fluorescence lysosome staining strategy is valuable for the researches on the lysosome involvement in different pathological diagnosis. Here we describe fluorescence lysosome staining methods with carbon dots for the identification of lysosomes in living and fixed cells.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21974125), the 111 Project of Henan Province (CXJD2021001), and National 111 Project (D20003).
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Guo, S., Sun, Y., Li, Z. (2023). Lysosome Imaging Based on Fluorescent Carbon Dots. In: Pellicciari, C., Biggiogera, M., Malatesta, M. (eds) Histochemistry of Single Molecules. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2566. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2675-7_3
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