Deep Dive: Fixing and Permeabilizing for Immunofluorescence
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Blog Post
...organic solvents’ impact on lipids means that they are able to permeabilize your sample while fixing it, which...Examples of different permeabilization strategies and when to use them. A) Not permeabilizing is suitable for... first couple of steps - mainly, fixing and permeabilizing.
Fixation
What is the point?
Fixation allows...the protein. Created with BioRender.
Permeabilization
What is the point?
Antibodies are large proteins...they are not able to diffuse across natively. Permeabilization essentially punches holes in the cell membranes...In fact, you may get cleaner results by not permeabilizing as you’ll prevent binding to any target protein...of the cell. However, assuming you do need to permeabilize, you have a few options for what reagents to...