MitoView Green is a green fluorescent mitochondrial dye with properties similar to those of MitoTracker Green FM.
The dye is nonfluorescent until it partitions into the mitochondrial membrane. The staining relies on mitochondrial mass, not on mitochondria membrane potential. Thus, the dye can be used to stain mitochondria in both live cells and fixed cells. MitoView Green is spectrally similar to FITC, making it optimally excitable by the 488 nm argon laser line.