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bioRxiv
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Mar 2, 2026
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创新点包括:1)利用β-半乳糖苷酶产物的远红荧光特性实现自动化定量;2)开发标准化工作流程和软件应用,提升检测灵敏度和可重复性;3)拓展至组织切片检测,增强方法适用性。
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核酸蛋白工具酶
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📄 原文题目

FAβ-gal: an automated fluorescence-based quantification of the senescence-associated beta-galactosidase X-gal assay

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💡 AI 核心解读

创新点包括:1)利用β-半乳糖苷酶产物的远红荧光特性实现自动化定量;2)开发标准化工作流程和软件应用,提升检测灵敏度和可重复性;3)拓展至组织切片检测,增强方法适用性。

📝 英文原版摘要

Cellular senescence plays a pivotal role in aging and cancer, two major biomedical and socioeconomic challenges of our time. Therefore, its study has become crucial for the design of interventions based on its manipulation. In this sense, researchers have developed a wide variety of highly sensitive and accurate techniques to detect and quantify cellular senescence. Among them, the most popular is the original Senescence-Associated {beta}-galactosidase (SA-{beta}-gal) colorimetric assay, based on the use of the chromogenic substrate X-gal, which is converted to a blue, insoluble precipitate of 5,5'-dibromo-4,4'-dichloro-indigo (indigo) by the enzyme. While this method remains the gold standard senescence assay, its quantification remains challenging due to the color-based readout. In this work, we describe a method, which we have named FA{beta}-gal (Fluorescence Analysis of {beta}-galactosidase), that exploits the far-red fluorescence of the {beta}-gal product indigo and allows the quantification of SA-{beta}-gal activity under any conventional wide-field fluorescence microscopy using the original X-gal assay. In addition, we developed workflows and software applications that standardize SA-{beta}-gal quantification in a semiautomatic and unbiased manner. We demonstrate that FA{beta}-gal measurements present a strong linear correlation with the percentage of senescent cells and show high sensitivity. Moreover, we show that this method is also applicable to tissue sections, underscoring the versatility of our approach. Therefore, FA{beta}-gal could be easily introduced into the routine of laboratories already using the original colourimetric assay, enhancing the accuracy, sensitivity, and reproducibility of senescence detection.
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