Phosphoflow: I am working on cancer cell lines looking for phosphoproteins by flow cytometry. Any advice?

12 December 2013 0 658 Report

In flow cytometry single histogram of a single phosphoprotein splitted into two peaks. Even that is a stable cancer cell line. Why is this?

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