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Zhou X, Yang CT, Xu Q, Lou Z, Xu Z, Thierry B, Gu N. Gold Nanoparticle Probe-Assisted Antigen-Counting Chip Using SEM. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:6769-6776. [PMID: 30676729 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b19055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Currently, it remains challenging to count protein-biomarker molecules present in a small droplet of biological samples. Herein, we propose a gold nanoparticle (GNP) probe-assisted sandwich-counting strategy that relies on a GNP probe, an antibody-functionalized chip to "count" antigen molecules using a scanning electron microscope. Both standard carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and two real CEA-related tumor samples (tumor tissues and serum) were assayed to demonstrate the proof-of-concept of the counting strategy. Results show that our method is excellently correlative with enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA) that is widely used in clinics for antigen or antibody detection and the limit of detection of our enumeration strategy reaches down to 0.045 ng/mL, which is ∼40 times more sensitive than the conventional ELISA. Therefore, our GNP probe-assisted sandwich-counting strategy has the potential to be used for quantification of protein biomarkers at ultralow concentrations in early tumor specimens and detection of target proteins in much diluted concentrations.
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- Xin Zhou
- Institute of Comparative Medicine, Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Joint International Research Laboratory of Agriculture and Agri-Product Safety, the Ministry of Education of China , Yangzhou University , Yangzhou 225009 , China
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- Future Industries Institute and ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio and Nano Science and Technology, Mawson Lakes Campus , University of South Australia , South Australia 5095 , Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 210009 , China
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- College of Materials Science and Engineering , Nanjing Forestry University , Nanjing 210037 , China
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- Center of Medical Genetics , Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University , Nanjing 210029 , China
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- Future Industries Institute and ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio and Nano Science and Technology, Mawson Lakes Campus , University of South Australia , South Australia 5095 , Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomaterials and Devices, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering , Southeast University , Nanjing 210009 , China
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Handschuh-Wang S, Wang T, Zhou X. Recent advances in hybrid measurement methods based on atomic force microscopy and surface sensitive measurement techniques. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra08515j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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This review summaries the recent progress of the combination of optical and non-optical surface sensitive techniques with the atomic force microscopy.
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- Stephan Handschuh-Wang
- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
- Shenzhen University
- Shenzhen 518060
- P. R. China
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- Functional Thin Films Research Center
- Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shenzhen 518055
- P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering
- Shenzhen University
- Shenzhen 518060
- P. R. China
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Edmundson M, Thanh NTK, Song B. Nanoparticles based stem cell tracking in regenerative medicine. Theranostics 2013; 3:573-82. [PMID: 23946823 PMCID: PMC3741606 DOI: 10.7150/thno.5477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Accepted: 01/07/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Stem cell therapies offer great potentials in the treatment for a wide range of diseases and conditions. With so many stem cell replacement therapies going through clinical trials currently, there is a great need to understand the mechanisms behind a successful therapy, and one of the critical points of discovering them is to track stem cell migration, proliferation and differentiation in vivo. To be of most use tracking methods should ideally be non-invasive, high resolution and allow tracking in three dimensions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the ideal methods, but requires a suitable contrast agent to be loaded to the cells to be tracked, and one of the most wide-spread in stem cell tracking is a group of agents known as magnetic nanoparticles. This review will explore the current use of magnetic nanoparticles in developing and performing stem cell therapies, and will investigate their potential limitations and the future directions magnetic nanoparticle tracking is heading in.
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Fukuda S, Uchihashi T, Iino R, Okazaki Y, Yoshida M, Igarashi K, Ando T. High-speed atomic force microscope combined with single-molecule fluorescence microscope. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2013; 84:073706. [PMID: 23902075 DOI: 10.1063/1.4813280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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High-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) have mutually complementary capabilities. Here, we report techniques to combine these microscopy systems so that both microscopy capabilities can be simultaneously used in the full extent. To combine the two systems, we have developed a tip-scan type HS-AFM instrument equipped with a device by which the laser beam from the optical lever detector can track the cantilever motion in the X- and Y-directions. This stand-alone HS-AFM system is mounted on an inverted optical microscope stage with a wide-area scanner. The capability of this combined system is demonstrated by simultaneous HS-AFM∕TIRFM imaging of chitinase A moving on a chitin crystalline fiber and myosin V walking on an actin filament.
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- Shingo Fukuda
- Department of Physics, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa 920-1192, Japan
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Cherry JF, Carlson AL, Benarba FL, Sommerfeld SD, Verma D, Loers G, Kohn J, Schachner M, Moghe PV. Oriented, multimeric biointerfaces of the L1 cell adhesion molecule: an approach to enhance neuronal and neural stem cell functions on 2-D and 3-D polymer substrates. Biointerphases 2012; 7:22. [PMID: 22589065 DOI: 10.1007/s13758-012-0022-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2012] [Accepted: 02/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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This article focuses on elucidating the key presentation features of neurotrophic ligands at polymer interfaces. Different biointerfacial configurations of the human neural cell adhesion molecule L1 were established on two-dimensional films and three-dimensional fibrous scaffolds of synthetic tyrosine-derived polycarbonate polymers and probed for surface concentrations, microscale organization, and effects on cultured primary neurons and neural stem cells. Underlying polymer substrates were modified with varying combinations of protein A and poly-D-lysine to modulate the immobilization and presentation of the Fc fusion fragment of the extracellular domain of L1 (L1-Fc). When presented as an oriented and multimeric configuration from protein A-pretreated polymers, L1-Fc significantly increased neurite outgrowth of rodent spinal cord neurons and cerebellar neurons as early as 24 h compared to the traditional presentation via adsorption onto surfaces treated with poly-D-lysine. Cultures of human neural progenitor cells screened on the L1-Fc/polymer biointerfaces showed significantly enhanced neuronal differentiation and neuritogenesis on all protein A oriented substrates. Notably, the highest degree of βIII-tubulin expression for cells in 3-D fibrous scaffolds were observed in protein A oriented substrates with PDL pretreatment, suggesting combined effects of cell attachment to polycationic charged substrates with subcellular topography along with L1-mediated adhesion mediating neuronal differentiation. Together, these findings highlight the promise of displays of multimeric neural adhesion ligands via biointerfacially engineered substrates to "cooperatively" enhance neuronal phenotypes on polymers of relevance to tissue engineering.
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- Jocie F Cherry
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, 599 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
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Bailes J, Gazi S, Ivanova R, Soloviev M. Effect of gold nanoparticle conjugation on the activity and stability of functional proteins. Methods Mol Biol 2012; 906:89-99. [PMID: 22791426 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-953-2_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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Immobilization of functional proteins such as enzymes on solid surfaces produces a variety of effects ranging from the reversal and strong inhibition to the enhancement of protein stability and function. Such effects are protein-dependent and are affected by the physical and chemical properties of the surfaces. Functional consequences of protein immobilization on the surface of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are protein-dependent and require thorough investigation using suitable functional tests. However, traditional approaches to making control samples, i.e., immobilized protein vs. protein in solution in absence of any nanoparticles do not provide sufficiently identical reaction conditions and complicate interpretation of the results. This report provides advice and methods for preparing AuNP-conjugated preparations generally suitable for studying the effects of immobilization on the activity and stability of different functional proteins. We use bovine catalase to illustrate our approach, but the methods are easily adaptable to any other enzyme or protein. The AuNP-immobilized enzyme showed increased stability at elevated temperatures compared to the same enzyme in solution.
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- Julian Bailes
- School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK
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Sanchez H, Kanaar R, Wyman C. Molecular recognition of DNA-protein complexes: a straightforward method combining scanning force and fluorescence microscopy. Ultramicroscopy 2010; 110:844-51. [PMID: 20382478 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2010.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2009] [Revised: 01/11/2010] [Accepted: 03/16/2010] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Combining scanning force and fluorescent microscopy allows simultaneous identification of labeled biomolecules and analysis of their nanometer level architectural arrangement. Fluorescent polystyrene nano-spheres were used as reliable objects for alignment of optical and topographic images. This allowed the precise localization of different fluorescence particles within complex molecular assemblies whose structure was mapped in nanometer detail topography. Our experiments reveal the versatility of this method for analysis of proteins and protein-DNA complexes.
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- Humberto Sanchez
- Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, Cancer Genomics Center, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Gayen K, Venkatesh KV. Quantification of cell size distribution as applied to the growth of Corynebacterium glutamicum. Microbiol Res 2008; 163:586-93. [PMID: 17008078 DOI: 10.1016/j.micres.2006.07.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/24/2006] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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It is known that the cell size is related to the physiological state of a cell. Therefore, cell size distribution directly reflects the average physiological properties of the cell culture. Cell size distribution can be enumerated by image analysis, flow cytometry and coulter counter. In this study, image analysis was used to characterize the cell size distribution during the growth of Corynebacterium glutamicum and was further analyzed by a distribution function. The parameters of the distribution function indicate the mean value and spread of the distribution. Analysis demonstrated that the maximum specific growth rate was higher (0.67h(-1)) for the growth obtained through serial dilution of seed as compared to growth from a normal seed culture (0.53h(-1)). This was due to a greater percentage of the cell population being in the state of division for the growth through serial dilution in the mid-log phase. The measurement of the cell size distribution demonstrated that the average cell size decreased during the course of growth. The distribution function was also used to enumerate the average specific growth rate of both the conditions of the culture. The demonstrated methodology can be used to predict an average growth property of a cell culture.
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- Kalyan Gayen
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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Dykman LA, Bogatyrev VA, Khlebtsov BN, Khlebtsov NG. A protein assay based on colloidal gold conjugates with trypsin. Anal Biochem 2005; 341:16-21. [PMID: 15866523 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2005.03.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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The standard sol particle immunoassay (SPIA) is based on a biospecific aggregation of gold nanoparticle conjugates, followed by conventional spectrophotometry. Here we propose a novel SPIA format that uses microtitration immunological plates and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay reader. The novel and standard assays are exemplified by determination of immunoglobulin G by using 15-nm colloidal gold-protein A conjugates. We also describe a novel sol particle-trypsin assay using conjugates of gold nanoparticles with trypsin. The method is based on measuring spectral extinction changes caused by the addition of protein to a conjugate solution. The changes in the extinction spectra are presumed to be related to aggregation of gold nanoparticles caused by polyvalent binding of protein molecules to the trypsin molecules of the conjugates.
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- Lev A Dykman
- Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, 13 Prospekt Entuziastov, Saratov 410049, Russia
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Kuznetsov YG, Victoria JG, Robinson WE, McPherson A. Atomic force microscopy investigation of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HIV-infected lymphocytes. J Virol 2003; 77:11896-909. [PMID: 14581526 PMCID: PMC254268 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.22.11896-11909.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2003] [Accepted: 08/18/2003] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Isolated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and HIV-infected human lymphocytes in culture have been imaged for the first time by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Purified virus particles spread on glass substrates are roughly spherical, reasonably uniform, though pleomorphic in appearance, and have diameters of about 120 nm. Similar particles are also seen on infected cell surfaces, but morphologies and sizes are considerably more varied, possibly a reflection of the budding process. The surfaces of HIV particles exhibit "tufts" of protein, presumably gp120, which do not physically resemble spikes. The protein tufts, which number about 100 per particle, have average diameters of about 200 A, but with a large variance. They likely consist of arbitrary associations of small numbers of gp120 monomers on the surface. In examining several hundred virus particles, we found no evidence that the gp120 monomers form threefold symmetric trimers. Although >95% of HIV-infected H9 lymphocytic cells were producing HIV antigens by immunofluorescent assay, most lymphocytes displayed few or no virus on their surfaces, while others were almost covered by a hundred or more viruses, suggesting a dependence on cell cycle or physiology. HIV-infected cells treated with a viral protease inhibitor and their progeny viruses were also imaged by AFM and were indistinguishable from untreated virions. Isolated HIV virions were disrupted by exposure to mild neutral detergents (Tween 20 and CHAPS) at concentrations from 0.25 to 2.0%. Among the products observed were intact virions, the remnants of completely degraded virions, and partially disrupted particles that lacked sectors of surface proteins as well as virions that were split or broken open to reveal their empty interiors. Capsids containing nucleic acid were not seen, suggesting that the capsids were even more fragile than the envelope and were totally degraded and lost. From these images, a good estimate of the thickness of the envelope protein-membrane-matrix protein outer shell of the virion was obtained. Treatment with even low concentrations (<0.1%) of sodium dodecyl sulfate completely destroyed all virions but produced many interesting products, including aggregates of viral proteins with strands of nucleic acid.
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- Y G Kuznetsov
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-3900, USA
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Damjanovich S, Vámosi G, Bodnár A, Bene L. New trends in studying structure and function of biological membranes. ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA HUNGARICA 2003; 89:415-25. [PMID: 12489751 DOI: 10.1556/aphysiol.89.2002.4.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Thirty years ago Singer and Nicolson constructed the "fluid mosaic model" of the membrane, which described the structural and functional characteristics of the plasma membrane of non-polarized cells like circulating blood lymphocytes as a fluid lipid phase accommodating proteins with a relatively free mobility. It is a rare phenomenon in biology that such a model could survive 30 years and even today it has a high degree of validity. However, in the light of new data it demands some modifications. In this minireview we present a new concept, which revives the SN model, by shifting the emphasis from fluidity to mosaicism, i.e. to lipid microdomains and rafts. A concise summary of data and key methods is given, proving the existence of non-random co-distribution patterns of different receptor kinds in the microdomain system of the plasma membrane. Furthermore we present evidence that proteins are not only accommodated by the lipid phase, but they are integral structural elements of it. Novel suggestions to the SN model help to develop a modernized version of the old paradigm in the light of new data.
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- S Damjanovich
- Cell Biophysics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, University of Debrecen.
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Atomic force microscopy allows three-dimensional imaging and measurements of unstained and uncoated biological samples in air or fluid. Using this technology it offers resolution on the nanometer scale and detection of temporal changes in the mechanical properties, i.e. surface stiffness or elasticity in live cells and membranes. Various biological processes including ligand-receptor interactions, reorganization, and restructuring of the cytoskeleton associated with cell motility that are governed by intermolecular forces and their mode of detection will be discussed.
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- José Luis Alonso
- Department of Medicine, Renal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Building 149, 13th Street, Room 8200, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
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Thanh NTK, Rosenzweig Z. Development of an aggregation-based immunoassay for anti-protein A using gold nanoparticles. Anal Chem 2002; 74:1624-8. [PMID: 12033254 DOI: 10.1021/ac011127p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 411] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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A unique, sensitive, and highly specific immunoassay system for antibodies using gold nanoparticles has been developed. The assay is based on the aggregation of gold nanoparticles that are coated with protein antigens in the presence of their corresponding antibodies. The aggregation of the gold nanoparticles results in an absorption change at 620 nm that is monitored using an absorption plate reader. To demonstrate the analytical capabilities of the new technique, monodispersed protein A-coated gold particles, averaging 10 nm in diameter, were used to determine the level of anti-protein A in serum samples. The effects of the pH, the temperature, and the concentration of protein A-coated gold nanoparticles on the sensitivity of the assay were investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and UV/vis absorption spectroscopy. A dynamic range of 2 orders of magnitude and a limit of detection of 1 microg/mL of anti-protein A were observed. The new technique could be used for fast, high-throughput screening of antibodies in clinical diagnostic applications.
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Ohta Y, Okamoto H, Kanno M, Okuda T. Atomic force microscopic observation of mechanically traumatized erythrocytes. Artif Organs 2002; 26:10-7. [PMID: 11872006 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2002.06702.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Erythrocytes are damaged or stimulated mechanically by artificial organs assisting in circulation. For several decades, a large number of research studies have been conducted to investigate the traumatizing phenomena due to nonphysiological flow conditions. These phenomena are thought to be the physical interaction between the cell membrane and the various fluidic conditions. To elucidate or evaluate the phenomena, however, chemical components emerging into the circulating solution, such as liberated hemoglobin or lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), have been measured as a main parameter. Naturally, the physical reaction caused on the membrane itself cannot be detailed by these parameters because they are the secondary products resulting from the mechanical membrane rupture. The aim of this study is to understand the traumatizing mechanism directly from a microbiological viewpoint. As a first step, we visualized the surface of sheep erythrocytes loaded with shear stress and measured erythrocyte surface roughness by atomic force microscopy (AFM) on a nanometer scale (10(-9) m). The constant shear rate was set at 1,800 (1/s), and the exposure time was set at 0.5, 1, and 2 h. We also measured the liberated hemoglobin concentration. As a result, it was found that the fine structure on the cell surface was changed drastically by the stress. It was also found that the surface roughness value increased with the exposure time, and correlated to the hemoglobin concentration. The visualization and the measurement of surface roughness of traumatized erythrocytes by AFM were thought to offer a new parameter for both hemolytic and subhemolytic studies.
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- Yuji Ohta
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Graduate School of Engineering, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Japan.
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de Lange F, Cambi A, Huijbens R, de Bakker B, Rensen W, Garcia-Parajo M, van Hulst N, Figdor CG. Cell biology beyond the diffraction limit: near-field scanning optical microscopy. J Cell Sci 2001; 114:4153-60. [PMID: 11739648 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.114.23.4153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Throughout the years, fluorescence microscopy has proven to be an extremely versatile tool for cell biologists to study live cells. Its high sensitivity and non-invasiveness, together with the ever-growing spectrum of sophisticated fluorescent indicators, ensure that it will continue to have a prominent role in the future. A drawback of light microscopy is the fundamental limit of the attainable spatial resolution – ∼250 nm – dictated by the laws of diffraction. The challenge to break this diffraction limit has led to the development of several novel imaging techniques. One of them, near-field scanning optical microscopy (NSOM), allows fluorescence imaging at a resolution of only a few tens of nanometers and, because of the extremely small near-field excitation volume, reduces background fluorescence from the cytoplasm to the extent that single-molecule detection sensitivity becomes within reach. NSOM allows detection of individual fluorescent proteins as part of multimolecular complexes on the surface of fixed cells, and similar results should be achievable under physiological conditions in the near future.
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- F de Lange
- Department of Tumor Immunology, University Medical Center Nijmegen, NCMLS/187 TIL, PO Box 9101, 6500HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Sakaue M, Taniguchi K. Imaging of the lectin-labeled cell surface of human lymphocytes by the use of atomic force microscope. J Vet Med Sci 2001; 63:223-5. [PMID: 11258467 DOI: 10.1292/jvms.63.223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a new useful tool to examine the surface structure of specimens with a higher resolution than the conventional scanning electron microscope. In the present study, we used the AFM to observe the surface of paraformaldehyde-fixed human lymphocytes processed for histochemistry using a biotinylated lectin, wheat germ agglutinin, followed by colloidal gold and silver-enhancement method. Before the treatment, no particles were attached to the cell surface. After treatment, many particles about 100 to 150 nm in diameter were visualized on it. Since we could observe the same cells on the slide glass before and after treatment, the AFM has the advantage to enable us the repeated imaging of samples treated with various kinds of histochemistries.
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- M Sakaue
- Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Siiman O, Gordon K, Burshteyn A, Maples JA, Whitesell JK. Immunophenotyping using gold or silver nanoparticle-polystyrene bead conjugates with multiple light scatter. CYTOMETRY 2000; 41:298-307. [PMID: 11084615 DOI: 10.1002/1097-0320(20001201)41:4<298::aid-cyto8>3.0.co;2-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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BACKGROUND The type of antibody-conjugated polystyrene (PS) latex beads for use as light scatter shift agents for targeted lymphocyte populations in whole blood has been expanded to include gold and silver nanoparticle-aminodextran-PS latex bead conjugates with antibodies. The linkers between antibody and colloidal metal were an aminotrithiol ligand or aminodextran polymer molecules. METHODS A modified flow instrument, including forward light scatter (FS), side light scatter (SS), light scatter at other intermediate angle ranges, LMALS (10-20 degrees ) and UMALS (20-65 degrees ) was used for simultaneous bead probe measurements. A conventional flow cytometer was used in simultaneous bead-fluorescent marker experiments. RESULTS Two mutually exclusive cell populations, CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocytes, have been simultaneously enumerated in blood by using a mixture of CD4-PS, CD8-Au-PS or CD4-Au-PS, CD8-PS beads, and one laser line, 633 nm, excitation. Similar measurements were made with mixtures of CD4-PS, CD8-Ag-PS or CD4-Ag-PS, CD8-PS beads. Also, simultaneous use of bead and fluorescent markers mixed with whole blood was demonstrated with CD4-PS beads and with the CD4-RD1/CD8-FITC dual marker. CONCLUSIONS Enumeration of CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes in whole blood by light scatter parameters only compared well with standard analyses with fluorescent markers. In simultaneous bead-fluorescent marker labeling of lymphocytes, the labeled bead had to be mixed first with cells in whole blood.
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- O Siiman
- Advanced Technology, Beckman Coulter, Miami, Florida 33196-2500, USA.
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Siiman O, Burshteyn A. Preparation, Microscopy, and Flow Cytometry with Excitation into Surface Plasmon Resonance Bands of Gold or Silver Nanoparticles on Aminodextran-Coated Polystyrene Beads. J Phys Chem B 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp000255z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Olavi Siiman
- Advanced Technology, Beckman Coulter, Inc., 11800 SW 147th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33196-2500, and Reagents Applications & Development, Beckman Coulter, Inc., 11800 SW 147th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33196-2500
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- Advanced Technology, Beckman Coulter, Inc., 11800 SW 147th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33196-2500, and Reagents Applications & Development, Beckman Coulter, Inc., 11800 SW 147th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33196-2500
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Henderson RM, Oberleithner H. Pushing, pulling, dragging, and vibrating renal epithelia by using atomic force microscopy. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2000; 278:F689-701. [PMID: 10807580 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.278.5.f689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Renal physiologists focus on events that take place on and around the surfaces of cells. Various techniques have been developed that follow transport functions at the molecular level, but until recently none of these techniques has been capable of making the behavior of molecular structures visible under physiological conditions. This apparent gap may be filled in the future by the application of atomic force microscopy. This technique produces an image not by optical means, but by "feeling" its way across a surface. Atomic force microscopy can, however, be modified in a number of ways, which means that besides producing a high-resolution image, it is possible to obtain several types of data on the interactions between the ultrastructural components of cell membranes (such as proteins) and other biologically active molecules (such as ATP). In this review we describe the recent use of the atomic force microscope in renal physiology, ranging from experiments in intact cells to those in isolated renal transport protein molecules, include examples of these extended applications of the technique, and point to uses that the microscope has recently found in other areas of biology that should prove fruitful in renal physiology in the near future.
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- R M Henderson
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QJ, United Kingdom.
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Fortin M, Hugo P. Surface antigen detection with non-fluorescent, antibody-coated microbeads: An alternative method compatible with conventional fluorochrome-based labeling. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1999. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0320(19990501)36:1<27::aid-cyto4>3.0.co;2-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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van Hulst N, Moers M. Biological applications of near-field optical microscopy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1996. [DOI: 10.1109/51.482795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The processes of cell growth and budding of the yeast cells Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which were gently immobilized on 3% agar and submerged in culture medium, were successfully imaged with an atomic force microscope for 6-7 h. Similar experiments on chemically fixed cells did not detect any appreciable change in their appearance except in a few scannings at the very beginning, indicating that the dissolution of agar and/or scraping of its surface by the scanning tip, if any, did not significantly interfere with the images taken thereafter. The increment in the height of many of the untreated cells, accompanied by their lateral enlargement, was taken as an indication of successful imaging of the growth process of yeast cells, together with an image of a growing daughter cell attached to its mother cell.
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- M Gad
- Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
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Damjanovich S, Vereb G, Schaper A, Jenei A, Matkó J, Starink JP, Fox GQ, Arndt-Jovin DJ, Jovin TM. Structural hierarchy in the clustering of HLA class I molecules in the plasma membrane of human lymphoblastoid cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995; 92:1122-6. [PMID: 7862646 PMCID: PMC42650 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.4.1122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I antigens in the plasma membranes of human T (HUT-102B2) and B (JY) lymphoma cells were probed by immunochemical reagents using fluorescence, transmission electron, and scanning force microscopies. Fluorescent labels were attached to monoclonal antibodies W6/32 or KE-2 directed against the heavy chain of HLA class I (A, B, C) and L368 or HB28 against the beta 2-microglobulin light chain. The topological distribution in the nanometer range was studied by photobleaching fluorescence resonance energy transfer (pbFRET) on single cells. A nonrandom codistribution pattern of MHC class I molecules was observed over distances of 2-10 nm. A second, nonrandom, and larger-scale topological organization of the MHC class I antigens was detected by indirect immunogold labeling and imaging by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning force microscopy (SFM). Although some differences in antigen distribution between the B- and T-cell lines were detected by pbFRET, both cell lines exhibited similar clustering patterns by TEM and SFM. Such defined molecular distributions on the surfaces of cells of the immune system may reflect an underlying specialization of membrane lipid domains and fulfill important functional roles in cell-cell contacts and signal transduction.
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- S Damjanovich
- Department of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is emerging as an important alternative to electron microscopy as a technique for analyzing submicron details on biological surfaces. Microbiological specimens such as viruses, bacteriophages, and ordered bacterial surface layers and membranes have played an important role in the development of scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) in cellular and molecular biology. Early STM studies involving metal-coated bacteriophage T4 polyheads, Methanospirillum hungatei, and Deinococcus radiodurans HPI layer clearly demonstrated that resolution was comparable to TEM on similarly prepared specimens and only limited by metal graininess. However, except for thin films or layers, novel biological information has been difficult to obtain since imaging native surfaces of such biomaterials as proteins or nucleic acids by STM proved to be unreliable. With the development of atomic force microscopes, which allow imaging of similar native structures, SPM applications have widened to include straightforward surface structure analysis, analysis of surface elastic and inelastic properties, bonding force measurements between molecules, and micro-manipulations of such individual molecules as DNA. AFM images have progressed from relatively crude representations of specimen topography to nanometer scale representations of native hydrated surfaces. It appears from the study of microbiological specimens that direct visualization of dynamic molecular events or processes may soon become a reality.
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- M Firtel
- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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