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SUBMITTER: Poulcharidis D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5618768 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Poulcharidis Dimitrios D Belfor Kimberley K Kros Alexander A van Kasteren Sander I SI
Chemical science 20170524 8
Membrane-compound exchange is vital for cell-to-cell communication, yet quantification of this process is difficult. Here we present a method using flow cytometry in combination with bioorthogonal and fluorescent labelling techniques to quantify the amount of exchange of cholesterol and sialylated compounds between cells. We demonstrate that direct cell-cell contact is the likely mechanism of sterol-exchange and show that by manipulating the contact time between cells using complementary coiled- ...[more]