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Liu D, Jiang L, Chen J, Chen Z, Yuan C, Lin D, Huang M. Monomer and Oligomer Transition of Zinc Phthalocyanine Is Key for Photobleaching in Photodynamic Therapy. Molecules 2023; 28:4639. [PMID: 37375194 PMCID: PMC10305241 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28124639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is recognized as a powerful method to inactivate cells. However, the photosensitizer (PS), a key component of PDT, has suffered from undesired photobleaching. Photobleaching reduces reactive oxygen species (ROS) yields, leading to the compromise of and even the loss of the photodynamic effect of the PS. Therefore, much effort has been devoted to minimizing photobleaching in order to ensure that there is no loss of photodynamic efficacy. Here, we report that a type of PS aggregate showed neither photobleaching nor photodynamic action. Upon direct contact with bacteria, the PS aggregate was found to fall apart into PS monomers and thus possessed photodynamic inactivation against bacteria. Interestingly, the disassembly of the bound PS aggregate in the presence of bacteria was intensified by illumination, generating more PS monomers and leading to an enhanced antibacterial photodynamic effect. This demonstrated that on a bacterial surface, the PS aggregate photo-inactivated bacteria via PS monomer during irradiation, where the photodynamic efficiency was retained without photobleaching. Further mechanistic studies showed that PS monomers disrupted bacterial membranes and affected the expression of genes related to cell wall synthesis, bacterial membrane integrity, and oxidative stress. The results obtained here are applicable to other types of PSs in PDT.
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- Dafeng Liu
- MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis & Instrumentation, Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China
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Unksov IN, Anttu N, Verardo D, Höök F, Prinz CN, Linke H. Fluorescence excitation enhancement by waveguiding nanowires. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2023; 5:1760-1766. [PMID: 36926575 PMCID: PMC10012842 DOI: 10.1039/d2na00749e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2022] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The optical properties of vertical semiconductor nanowires can allow an enhancement of fluorescence from surface-bound fluorophores, a feature proven useful in biosensing. One of the contributing factors to the fluorescence enhancement is thought to be the local increase of the incident excitation light intensity in the vicinity of the nanowire surface, where fluorophores are located. However, this effect has not been experimentally studied in detail to date. Here, we quantify the excitation enhancement of fluorophores bound to a semiconductor nanowire surface by combining modelling with measurements of fluorescence photobleaching rate, indicative of the excitation light intensity, using epitaxially grown GaP nanowires. We study the excitation enhancement for nanowires with a diameter of 50-250 nm and show that excitation enhancement reaches a maximum for certain diameters, depending on the excitation wavelength. Furthermore, we find that the excitation enhancement decreases rapidly within tens of nanometers from the nanowire sidewall. The results can be used to design nanowire-based optical systems with exceptional sensitivities for bioanalytical applications.
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- Ivan N Unksov
- NanoLund and Solid State Physics, Lund University Box 118 22100 Lund Sweden
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- Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University FI-20500 Turku Finland
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- NanoLund and Solid State Physics, Lund University Box 118 22100 Lund Sweden
- AlignedBio AB, Medicon Village Scheeletorget 1 223 63 Lund Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology 41296 Gothenburg Sweden
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- NanoLund and Solid State Physics, Lund University Box 118 22100 Lund Sweden
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- NanoLund and Solid State Physics, Lund University Box 118 22100 Lund Sweden
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Wüstner D. Image segmentation and separation of spectrally similar dyes in fluorescence microscopy by dynamic mode decomposition of photobleaching kinetics. BMC Bioinformatics 2022; 23:334. [PMID: 35962314 PMCID: PMC9373304 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04881-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Image segmentation in fluorescence microscopy is often based on spectral separation of fluorescent probes (color-based segmentation) or on significant intensity differences in individual image regions (intensity-based segmentation). These approaches fail, if dye fluorescence shows large spectral overlap with other employed probes or with strong cellular autofluorescence. Results Here, a novel model-free approach is presented which determines bleaching characteristics based on dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) and uses the inferred photobleaching kinetics to distinguish different probes or dye molecules from autofluorescence. DMD is a data-driven computational method for detecting and quantifying dynamic events in complex spatiotemporal data. Here, DMD is first used on synthetic image data and thereafter used to determine photobleaching characteristics of a fluorescent sterol probe, dehydroergosterol (DHE), compared to that of cellular autofluorescence in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. It is shown that decomposition of those dynamic modes allows for separating probe from autofluorescence without invoking a particular model for the bleaching process. In a second application, DMD of dye-specific photobleaching is used to separate two green-fluorescent dyes, an NBD-tagged sphingolipid and Alexa488-transferrin, thereby assigning them to different cellular compartments. Conclusions Data-based decomposition of dynamic modes can be employed to analyze spatially varying photobleaching of fluorescent probes in cells and tissues for spatial and temporal image segmentation, discrimination of probe from autofluorescence and image denoising. The new method should find wide application in analysis of dynamic fluorescence imaging data. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12859-022-04881-x.
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- Daniel Wüstner
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Physics of Life Sciences (PhyLife) Center, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense, Denmark.
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Narcisse D, Mustafi SM, Carlson M, Batabyal S, Kim S, Wright W, Kumar Mohanty S. Bioluminescent Multi-Characteristic Opsin for Simultaneous Optical Stimulation and Continuous Monitoring of Cortical Activities. Front Cell Neurosci 2021; 15:750663. [PMID: 34759801 PMCID: PMC8573050 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2021.750663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2021] [Accepted: 09/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Stimulation and continuous monitoring of neural activities at cellular resolution are required for the understanding of the sensory processing of stimuli and development of effective neuromodulation therapies. We present bioluminescence multi-characteristic opsin (bMCOII), a hybrid optogenetic actuator, and a bioluminescence Ca2+ sensor for excitation-free, continuous monitoring of neural activities in the visual cortex, with high spatiotemporal resolution. An exceptionally low intensity (10 μW/mm2) of light could elicit neural activation that could be detected by Ca2+ bioluminescence imaging. An uninterrupted (>14 h) recording of visually evoked neural activities in the cortex of mice enabled the determination of strength of sensory activation. Furthermore, an artificial intelligence-based neural activation parameter transformed Ca2+ bioluminescence signals to network activity patterns. During continuous Ca2+-bioluminescence recordings, visual cortical activity peaked at the seventh to eighth hour of anesthesia, coinciding with circadian rhythm. For both direct optogenetic stimulation in cortical slices and visually evoked activities in the visual cortex, we observed secondary delayed Ca2+-bioluminescence responses, suggesting the involvement of neuron-astrocyte-neuron pathway. Our approach will enable the development of a modular and scalable interface system capable of serving a multiplicity of applications to modulate and monitor large-scale activities in the brain.
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- Nanoscope Technologies LLC, Bedford, TX, United States
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- Nanoscope Technologies LLC, Bedford, TX, United States
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Kolar R, Chmelikova L, Vicar T, Provaznik I. Increasing the Image Contrast via Fast Fluorescence Photobleaching. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:2741-2744. [PMID: 34891817 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This paper focuses on the analysis of image sequences acquired during fast photobleaching using a standard wide-field microscope. We show that the photobleaching rate estimated for each pixel is not constant for the whole field of view, but it provides a new spatially variant parametric image related to the cell structure and diffusion of fluorophores. We also provide an alternative way to estimate a pixel-wise photobleaching rate with significantly less computation time than exponential model fitting.Clinical Relevance- This method provides an additional way how fluorescence photobleaching might be used for increasing the image contrast.
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Functional interrogation of neural circuits with virally transmitted optogenetic tools. J Neurosci Methods 2020; 345:108905. [PMID: 32795553 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2020] [Revised: 08/03/2020] [Accepted: 08/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The vertebrate brain comprises a plethora of cell types connected by intertwined pathways. Optogenetics enriches the neuroscientific tool set for disentangling these neuronal circuits in a manner which exceeds the spatio-temporal precision of previously existing techniques. Technically, optogenetics can be divided in three types of optical and genetic combinations: (1) it is primarily understood as the manipulation of the activity of genetically modified cells (typically neurons) with light, i.e. optical actuators. (2) A second combination refers to visualizing the activity of genetically modified cells (again typically neurons), i.e. optical sensors. (3) A completely different interpretation of optogenetics refers to the light activated expression of a genetically induced construct. Here, we focus on the first two types of optogenetics, i.e. the optical actuators and sensors in an attempt to give an overview into the topic. We first cover methods to express opsins into neurons and introduce strategies of targeting specific neuronal populations in different animal species. We then summarize combinations of optogenetics with behavioral read out and neuronal imaging. Finally, we give an overview of the current state-of-the-art and an outlook on future perspectives.
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Lowerison MR, Huang C, Lucien F, Chen S, Song P. Ultrasound localization microscopy of renal tumor xenografts in chicken embryo is correlated to hypoxia. Sci Rep 2020; 10:2478. [PMID: 32051485 PMCID: PMC7015937 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-59338-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Accepted: 12/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) permits the reconstruction of super-resolved microvascular images at clinically relevant penetration depths, which can be potentially leveraged to provide non-invasive quantitative measures of tissue hemodynamics and hypoxic status. We demonstrate that ULM microbubble data processing methods, applied to images acquired with a Verasonics Vantage 256 system, can provide a non-invasive imaging surrogate biomarker of tissue oxygenation status. This technique was applied to evaluate the microvascular structure, vascular perfusion, and hypoxia of a renal cell carcinoma xenograft model grown in the chorioallantoic membrane of chicken embryos. Histological microvascular density was significantly correlated to ULM measures of intervessel distance (R = -0.92, CI95 = [-0.99,-0.42], p = 0.01). The Distance Metric, a measure of vascular tortuosity, was found to be significantly correlated to hypoxyprobe quantifications (R = 0.86, CI95 = [0.17, 0.99], p = 0.03). ULM, by providing non-invasive in vivo microvascular structural information, has the potential to be a crucial clinical imaging modality for the diagnosis and therapy monitoring of solid tumors.
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- Matthew R Lowerison
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
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Yang H, Li H, Liu T. Photobleaching statistics in single-molecule on-/off-time distributions. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:174101. [PMID: 31703494 DOI: 10.1063/1.5126500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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The on- and and off-time distributions from fluorescence single-molecule experiments are widely used to extract kinetics parameters with the goal to provide a quantitative description for the molecule's behavior on the ensemble level. Such experiments are inevitably influenced by photobleaching, where the fluorescent probe transitions to a nonemissive state. Yet, it appears that few reports went beyond acknowledging this unavoidable complication; in fact, it has so far been ignored when evaluating off-time distributions. Here, we present a theoretical framework that allows the derivation of analytical equations in which photobleaching kinetics are rigorously incorporated. Unexpectedly, our results indicate that the off-time distribution should be nonexponential even when all the rate processes are single exponential. With the analytical theory understood and demonstrated as easy to implement, such ubiquitous photochemical processes can now be readily included in routine experimental analyses.
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- Haw Yang
- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
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Dutta SB, Krishna H, Gupta S, Majumder SK. Fluorescence photo-bleaching of urine and its applicability in oral cancer diagnosis. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 2019; 28:18-24. [PMID: 31394298 DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2019.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2019] [Revised: 07/18/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Photo-stability of urine is of crucial importance for the applicability of fluorescence spectroscopy of urine samples for diagnosis of cancer. We report the results of a detailed study on fluorescence photo-bleaching of human urine samples. We also present the results of a preliminary investigation on evaluation of the applicability of photo-bleaching characteristics of urine for discriminating patients with oral cancer from healthy volunteers. The time-lapse fluorescence induced by continuous shining of 405 nm radiation from a diode laser was recorded from the urine samples obtained from 18 patients with oral cancer as well as from 22 healthy volunteers with history of no known major illness in the past two months. The integrated fluorescence intensity (ΣI), calculated for each spectrum, was found to decrease with time till a point after which no further decrease was observed. Further, while significant differences were observed in the spectra of cancerous patients and healthy volunteers, these differences were found to be varying with time till the intensities of the observed fluorescence spectra corresponding to the two categories of urine samples became stable. The curve, generated by plotting ΣI vs. time, was found to be best fitted (R2 > 0.95) with a double-exponential decay function. The photo-bleaching constants, obtained from curve-fitting, were found to have statistically significant differences corresponding to the urine samples of cancerous patients and healthy volunteers. A classification algorithm developed based on nearest-mean classifier (NMC) and applied on the photo-bleaching constants in leave-one-subject-out cross-validation mode was found to provide a sensitivity and specificity of up to ∼ 86% in discriminating the two categories of urine samples.
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- Surjendu Bikash Dutta
- Laser Biomedical Applications Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452013, India; Discipline of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore 453552, India
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- Laser Biomedical Applications Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452013, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India
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- Discipline of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering, Discipline of Metallurgy Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore 453552, India
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- Laser Biomedical Applications Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452013, India; Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI), Training School Complex, Anushakti Nagar, Mumbai 400094, India.
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Puvirajesinghe TM, Zhi ZL, Craster RV, Guenneau S. Tailoring drug release rates in hydrogel-based therapeutic delivery applications using graphene oxide. J R Soc Interface 2019; 15:rsif.2017.0949. [PMID: 29445040 PMCID: PMC5832740 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2017] [Accepted: 01/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Graphene oxide (GO) is increasingly used for controlling mass diffusion in hydrogel-based drug delivery applications. On the macro-scale, the density of GO in the hydrogel is a critical parameter for modulating drug release. Here, we investigate the diffusion of a peptide drug through a network of GO membranes and GO-embedded hydrogels, modelled as porous matrices resembling both laminated and ‘house of cards’ structures. Our experiments use a therapeutic peptide and show a tunable nonlinear dependence of the peptide concentration upon time. We establish models using numerical simulations with a diffusion equation accounting for the photo-thermal degradation of fluorophores and an effective percolation model to simulate the experimental data. The modelling yields an interpretation of the control of drug diffusion through GO membranes, which is extended to the diffusion of the peptide in GO-embedded agarose hydrogels. Varying the density of micron-sized GO flakes allows for fine control of the drug diffusion. We further show that both GO density and size influence the drug release rate. The ability to tune the density of hydrogel-like GO membranes to control drug release rates has exciting implications to offer guidelines for tailoring drug release rates in hydrogel-based therapeutic delivery applications.
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- T M Puvirajesinghe
- Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, CRCM, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, INSERM, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France
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- Diabetes Research Group, King's College London Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, Guy's Hospital Campus, London, UK
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- Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London, UK.,CNRS-Imperial "Abraham de Moivre" Unité Mixte Internationale, London, UK
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
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Silwal A, Lu HP. Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Signaling Molecules-Dopamine Receptors Interactions in Living Cells. ACS OMEGA 2018; 3:14849-14857. [PMID: 30555993 PMCID: PMC6289496 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2018] [Accepted: 10/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The selective interaction of signaling compounds including neurotransmitters and drugs with the dopamine receptors (DARs) is extremely important for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Here, we report a method to probe the selective interactions of signaling compounds with D1 and D2 DARs in living cells using the combined approach of theoretical calculation and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). When signaling compounds such as DA, amphetamine, methamphetamine, and methylenedioxypyrovalerone interact with D1 dopamine receptors (DRD1), the intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) level is increased. However, the intracellular level of cAMP is decreased when D2 dopamine receptors (DRD2) interact with the abovementioned signaling compounds. In our experiments, we have internalized the silica-coated silver nanoparticles (AgNP@SiO2) in living cells to adsorb biologically generated cAMP which was probed by using SERS. Besides adsorptions of cAMP, AgNP@SiO2 has a crucial role for the enhancement of Raman cross section of the samples. We observed the characteristic SERS peaks of cAMP when DRD1-overexpressed cells interact with the signaling compounds; these peaks were not observed for other cells including DRD2-overexpressed and DRD1-DRD2-coexpressed cells. Our experimental approach is successful to probe the intracellular cAMP and characterize the selectivity of signaling compounds to different types of DARs. Furthermore, our experimental approach is highly capable for in vivo studies because it can probe intracellular cAMP using a low input power of incident laser without significant cell damage. Our experimental results and density functional theory calculations showed that 780 and 1503 cm-1 are signature Raman peaks of cAMP. The SERS peak at 780 cm-1 is associated with C-O, C-C, and C-N stretching and symmetric and asymmetric bending of two O-H bonds of cAMP, whereas the SERS peak at 1503 cm-1 is contributed by the O9-H3 bending mode.
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Oliveira E, Bértolo E, Núñez C, Pilla V, Santos HM, Fernández‐Lodeiro J, Fernández‐Lodeiro A, Djafari J, Capelo JL, Lodeiro C. Green and Red Fluorescent Dyes for Translational Applications in Imaging and Sensing Analytes: A Dual-Color Flag. ChemistryOpen 2018; 7:9-52. [PMID: 29318095 PMCID: PMC5754553 DOI: 10.1002/open.201700135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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Red and green are two of the most-preferred colors from the entire chromatic spectrum, and red and green dyes are widely used in biochemistry, immunohistochemistry, immune-staining, and nanochemistry applications. Selective dyes with green and red excitable chromophores can be used in biological environments, such as tissues and cells, and can be irradiated with visible light without cell damage. This critical review, covering a period of five years, provides an overview of the most-relevant results on the use of red and green fluorescent dyes in the fields of bio-, chemo- and nanoscience. The review focuses on fluorescent dyes containing chromophores such as fluorescein, rhodamine, cyanine, boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY), 7-nitobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazole-4-yl, naphthalimide, acridine orange, perylene diimides, coumarins, rosamine, Nile red, naphthalene diimide, distyrylpyridinium, benzophosphole P-oxide, benzoresorufins, and tetrapyrrolic macrocycles. Metal complexes and nanomaterials with these dyes are also discussed.
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- Elisabete Oliveira
- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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- Biomolecular Research GroupSchool of Human and Life SciencesCanterbury Christ Church UniversityCanterburyCT1 1QUUK
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- Research UnitHospital Universitario Lucus Augusti (HULA), Servizo Galego de Saúde (SERGAS)27003LugoSpain
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- Instituto de FísicaUniversidade Federal de Uberlândia-UFUAv. João Naves de Ávila 2121Uberlândia, MG38400-902Brazil
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- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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- BIOSCOPE GroupUCIBIO-LAQV-REQUIMTEDepartamento de Química, Faculdade de Ciências e TecnologiaUniversidade NOVA de Lisboa2829-516LisboaPortugal
- Proteomass Scientific SocietyRua dos Inventores, Madan Park2829-516CaparicaPortugal
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Silwal AP, Yadav R, Sprague JE, Lu HP. Raman Spectroscopic Signature Markers of Dopamine-Human Dopamine Transporter Interaction in Living Cells. ACS Chem Neurosci 2017; 8:1510-1518. [PMID: 28375605 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.7b00048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Dopamine (DA) controls many psychological and behavioral activities in the central nervous system (CNS) through interactions with the human dopamine transporter (hDAT) and dopamine receptors. The roles of DA in the function of the CNS are affected by the targeted binding of drugs to hDAT; thus, hDAT plays a critical role in neurophysiology and neuropathophysiology. An effective experimental method is necessary to study the DA-hDAT interaction and effects of variety of drugs like psychostimulants and antidepressants that are dependent on this interaction. In searching for obtaining and identifying the Raman spectral signatures, we have used surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy to record SERS spectra from DA, human embryonic kidney 293 cells (HEK293), hDAT-HEK293, DA-HEK293, and DA-hDAT-HEK293. We have demonstrated a specific 2D-distribution SERS spectral analytical approach to analyze DA-hDAT interaction. Our study shows that the Raman modes at 807, 839, 1076, 1090, 1538, and 1665 cm-1 are related to DA-hDAT interaction, where Raman shifts at 807 and 1076 cm-1 are the signature markers for the bound state of DA to probe DA-hDAT interaction. On the basis of density function theory (DFT) calculation, Raman shift of the bound state of DA at 807 cm-1 is related to combination of bending modes α(C3-O10-H21), α(C2-O11-H22), α(C7-C8-H18), α(C6-C4-H13), α(C7-C8-H19), and α(C7-C8-N9), and Raman shift at 1076 cm-1 is related to combination of bending modes α(H19-N9-C8), γ(N9-H19), γ(C8-H19), γ(N9-H20), γ(C8-H18), and α(C7-C8-H18). These findings demonstrate that protein-ligand interactions can be confirmed by probing change in Raman shift of ligand molecules, which could be crucial to understanding molecular interactions between neurotransmitters and their receptors or transporters.
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- Achut P. Silwal
- Department of Chemistry
and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry
and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- The Ohio Attorney General’s Center for the Future of Forensic Science, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry
and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling
Green, Ohio 43403, United States
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Solanko KA, Modzel M, Solanko LM, Wüstner D. Fluorescent Sterols and Cholesteryl Esters as Probes for Intracellular Cholesterol Transport. Lipid Insights 2016; 8:95-114. [PMID: 27330304 PMCID: PMC4902042 DOI: 10.4137/lpi.s31617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2015] [Revised: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Cholesterol transport between cellular organelles comprised vesicular trafficking and nonvesicular exchange; these processes are often studied by quantitative fluorescence microscopy. A major challenge for using this approach is producing analogs of cholesterol with suitable brightness and structural and chemical properties comparable with those of cholesterol. This review surveys currently used fluorescent sterols with respect to their behavior in model membranes, their photophysical properties, as well as their transport and metabolism in cells. In the first part, several intrinsically fluorescent sterols, such as dehydroergosterol or cholestatrienol, are discussed. These polyene sterols (P-sterols) contain three conjugated double bonds in the steroid ring system, giving them slight fluorescence in ultraviolet light. We discuss the properties of P-sterols relative to cholesterol, outline their chemical synthesis, and explain how to image them in living cells and organisms. In particular, we show that P-sterol esters inserted into low-density lipoprotein can be tracked in the fibroblasts of Niemann–Pick disease using high-resolution deconvolution microscopy. We also describe fluorophore-tagged cholesterol probes, such as BODIPY-, NBD-, Dansyl-, or Pyrene-tagged cholesterol, and eventual esters of these analogs. Finally, we survey the latest developments in the synthesis and use of alkyne cholesterol analogs to be labeled with fluorophores by click chemistry and discuss the potential of all approaches for future applications.
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- Katarzyna A Solanko
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark
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Imaging approaches for analysis of cholesterol distribution and dynamics in the plasma membrane. Chem Phys Lipids 2016; 199:106-135. [PMID: 27016337 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2016.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2016] [Accepted: 03/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cholesterol is an important lipid component of the plasma membrane (PM) of mammalian cells, where it is involved in control of many physiological processes, such as endocytosis, cell migration, cell signalling and surface ruffling. In an attempt to explain these functions of cholesterol, several models have been put forward about cholesterol's lateral and transbilayer organization in the PM. In this article, we review imaging techniques developed over the last two decades for assessing the distribution and dynamics of cholesterol in the PM of mammalian cells. Particular focus is on fluorescence techniques to study the lateral and inter-leaflet distribution of suitable cholesterol analogues in the PM of living cells. We describe also several methods for determining lateral cholesterol dynamics in the PM including fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP), fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), single particle tracking (SPT) and spot variation FCS coupled to stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. For proper interpretation of such measurements, we provide some background in probe photophysics and diffusion phenomena occurring in cell membranes. In particular, we show the equivalence of the reaction-diffusion approach, as used in FRAP and FCS, and continuous time random walk (CTRW) models, as often invoked in SPT studies. We also discuss mass spectrometry (MS) based imaging of cholesterol in the PM of fixed cells and compare this method with fluorescence imaging of sterols. We conclude that evidence from many experimental techniques converges towards a model of a homogeneous distribution of cholesterol with largely free and unhindered diffusion in both leaflets of the PM.
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da Silva EFF, Pimenta FM, Pedersen BW, Blaikie FH, Bosio GN, Breitenbach T, Westberg M, Bregnhøj M, Etzerodt M, Arnaut LG, Ogilby PR. Intracellular singlet oxygen photosensitizers: on the road to solving the problems of sensitizer degradation, bleaching and relocalization. Integr Biol (Camb) 2016; 8:177-93. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ib00295h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Elsa F. F. da Silva
- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
- Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), CCT-La Plata-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Casilla de Correo 16, sucursal 4 (1900), La Plata, Argentina
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra, 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- Center for Oxygen Microscopy and Imaging, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Århus, Denmark
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Lencione D, Gehlen MH, Trujillo LN, Leitao RCF, Albuquerque RQ. The spatial distribution of the photostability of thionine in zeolite L nanochannels investigated by Photobleaching Lifetime Imaging Microscopy. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2016; 15:398-404. [DOI: 10.1039/c5pp00418g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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PbLIM is used to investigate the photostability of thionine in zeolite L. The gradient in the spatial distribution of the photostability is ascribed to a non-homogeneous distribution of active oxygen in the channels after irradiation.
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- Diego Lencione
- Instituto de Química de São Carlos
- Universidade de São Paulo
- 13566-590 São Carlos
- Brazil
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- Instituto de Química de São Carlos
- Universidade de São Paulo
- 13566-590 São Carlos
- Brazil
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- Instituto de Química de São Carlos
- Universidade de São Paulo
- 13566-590 São Carlos
- Brazil
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- Instituto de Química de São Carlos
- Universidade de São Paulo
- 13566-590 São Carlos
- Brazil
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Derieppe M, Bos C, de Greef M, Moonen C, de Senneville BD. Correction for photobleaching in dynamic fluorescence microscopy: application in the assessment of pharmacokinetic parameters in ultrasound-mediated drug delivery. Phys Med Biol 2015; 61:588-600. [PMID: 26689685 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/61/2/588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We have previously demonstrated the feasibility of monitoring ultrasound-mediated uptake of a hydrophilic model drug in real time with dynamic confocal fluorescence microscopy. In this study, we evaluate and correct the impact of photobleaching to improve the accuracy of pharmacokinetic parameter estimates. To model photobleaching of the fluorescent model drug SYTOX Green, a photobleaching process was added to the current two-compartment model describing cell uptake. After collection of the uptake profile, a second acquisition was performed when SYTOX Green was equilibrated, to evaluate the photobleaching rate experimentally. Photobleaching rates up to 5.0 10(-3) s(-1) were measured when applying power densities up to 0.2 W.cm(-2). By applying the three-compartment model, the model drug uptake rate of 6.0 10(-3) s(-1) was measured independent of the applied laser power. The impact of photobleaching on uptake rate estimates measured by dynamic fluorescence microscopy was evaluated. Subsequent compensation improved the accuracy of pharmacokinetic parameter estimates in the cell population subjected to sonopermeabilization.
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- M Derieppe
- Imaging Division, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Bajcsy P, Cardone A, Chalfoun J, Halter M, Juba D, Kociolek M, Majurski M, Peskin A, Simon C, Simon M, Vandecreme A, Brady M. Survey statistics of automated segmentations applied to optical imaging of mammalian cells. BMC Bioinformatics 2015; 16:330. [PMID: 26472075 PMCID: PMC4608288 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0762-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The goal of this survey paper is to overview cellular measurements using optical microscopy imaging followed by automated image segmentation. The cellular measurements of primary interest are taken from mammalian cells and their components. They are denoted as two- or three-dimensional (2D or 3D) image objects of biological interest. In our applications, such cellular measurements are important for understanding cell phenomena, such as cell counts, cell-scaffold interactions, cell colony growth rates, or cell pluripotency stability, as well as for establishing quality metrics for stem cell therapies. In this context, this survey paper is focused on automated segmentation as a software-based measurement leading to quantitative cellular measurements. METHODS We define the scope of this survey and a classification schema first. Next, all found and manually filteredpublications are classified according to the main categories: (1) objects of interests (or objects to be segmented), (2) imaging modalities, (3) digital data axes, (4) segmentation algorithms, (5) segmentation evaluations, (6) computational hardware platforms used for segmentation acceleration, and (7) object (cellular) measurements. Finally, all classified papers are converted programmatically into a set of hyperlinked web pages with occurrence and co-occurrence statistics of assigned categories. RESULTS The survey paper presents to a reader: (a) the state-of-the-art overview of published papers about automated segmentation applied to optical microscopy imaging of mammalian cells, (b) a classification of segmentation aspects in the context of cell optical imaging, (c) histogram and co-occurrence summary statistics about cellular measurements, segmentations, segmented objects, segmentation evaluations, and the use of computational platforms for accelerating segmentation execution, and (d) open research problems to pursue. CONCLUSIONS The novel contributions of this survey paper are: (1) a new type of classification of cellular measurements and automated segmentation, (2) statistics about the published literature, and (3) a web hyperlinked interface to classification statistics of the surveyed papers at https://isg.nist.gov/deepzoomweb/resources/survey/index.html.
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- Peter Bajcsy
- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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- Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, USA.
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Platkov M, Tirosh R, Kaufman M, Zurgil N, Deutsch M. Photobleaching of fluorescein as a probe for oxidative stress in single cells. JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY 2014; 140:306-14. [PMID: 25218588 DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2014.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2014] [Revised: 08/18/2014] [Accepted: 08/24/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND ROS are involved in the regulation of many physiological and pathological processes. Apoptosis and necrosis are processes that are induced by changes in concentrations of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS). This study aims to detect and quantify the cellular response to changing ROS concentrations in the scope of apoptosis and necrosis. METHODS Photobleaching of the fluorescent substrate fluorescein is used as a probe to detect the response of individual Jurkat-T-lymphocytes and Prostate-Cancer-3(PC-3) cells to oxidative stress, induced by hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂). A kinetic model is proposed to describe changes in intracellular dye quantities due to photobleaching, dye hydrolysis, influx and leakage, yielding a single time-dependent decaying exponent+constant. RESULTS Fluorescein photobleaching is controlled and used to detect intracellular ROS. An increase in the decay time of fluorescence of intracellular fluorescein (slow photobleaching) was measured from cells incubated with H₂O₂ at 50 μM. At higher H₂O₂ concentrations a decrease in the decay time was measured (fast photobleaching), in contrast to in vitro results with fluorescein and H₂O₂ in phosphate buffer saline (PBS), where the addition of H₂O₂ decreases the decay time, regardless of the irradiation dose used. CONCLUSIONS The anomalous, ROS-concentration dependent reduction of the photobleaching rate in cells, as opposed to solutions, might indicate on the regulation of the activity of intracellular oxidative-stress protective mechanisms, as seen earlier with other methods. SIGNIFICANCE Assessing photobleaching via the time decay of the fluorescence intensity of an ROS-sensitive fluorophore may be adapted to monitor oxidative stress or ROS-related processes in cells.
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- Max Platkov
- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Jerome Schottenstein Center for the Research and the Technology of the Cellome, Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.
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- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Jerome Schottenstein Center for the Research and the Technology of the Cellome, Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Jerome Schottenstein Center for the Research and the Technology of the Cellome, Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Jerome Schottenstein Center for the Research and the Technology of the Cellome, Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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- The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Jerome Schottenstein Center for the Research and the Technology of the Cellome, Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
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Wüstner D, Christensen T, Solanko LM, Sage D. Photobleaching kinetics and time-integrated emission of fluorescent probes in cellular membranes. Molecules 2014; 19:11096-130. [PMID: 25076144 PMCID: PMC6271172 DOI: 10.3390/molecules190811096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2014] [Revised: 07/04/2014] [Accepted: 07/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Since the pioneering work of Hirschfeld, it is known that time-integrated emission (TiEm) of a fluorophore is independent of fluorescence quantum yield and illumination intensity. Practical implementation of this important result for determining exact probe distribution in living cells is often hampered by the presence of autofluorescence. Using kinetic modelling of photobleaching combined with pixel-wise bleach rate fitting of decay models with an updated plugin to the ImageJ program, it is shown that the TiEm of a fluorophore in living cells can be determined exactly from the product of bleaching amplitude and time constant. This applies to mono-exponential bleaching from the first excited singlet and/or triplet state and to multi-exponential combinations of such processes. The TiEm can be used to correct for illumination shading and background autofluorescence without the need for fluorescent test layers or separate imaging of non-stained cells. We apply the method to simulated images and to images of cells, whose membranes were labelled with fluorescent sterols and sphingolipids. Our bleaching model can be extended to include a probability density function (PDF) of intrinsic bleach rate constants with a memory kernel. This approach results in a time-dependent bleach rate coefficient and is exemplified for fluorescent sterols in restricted intracellular environments, like lipid droplets. We show that for small deviations from the classical exponential bleaching, the TiEm of decay functions with rate coefficients remains largely independent of fluorescence lifetime and illumination, and thereby represents a faithful measure of probe distribution.
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- Daniel Wüstner
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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- Biomedical Imaging Group, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Lawson LS, Chan JW, Huser T. A highly sensitive nanoscale pH-sensor using Au nanoparticles linked by a multifunctional Raman-active reporter molecule. NANOSCALE 2014; 6:7971-7980. [PMID: 24902897 DOI: 10.1039/c3nr06277e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Chemical sensing on the nanoscale has been breaking new ground since the discovery of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). For nanoparticles, controlled particle aggregation is necessary to achieve the largest SERS enhancements. Therefore, aggregating agents such as salts or linker molecules are used in conjunction with chemically sensitive reporters in order to develop robust environmentally sensitive SERS probes. While salt-induced colloidal nanosphere aggregates have produced robust SERS signals, their variability in aggregate size contributes significantly to poor SERS signal reproducibility, which can complicate their use in in vitro cellular studies. Such systems often also lack reproducibility in spectral measurements between different nanoparticle clusters. Preaggregation of colloids via linkers followed by surface functionalization with reporter molecules results in the linker occupying valuable SERS hotspot volume which could otherwise be utilized by additional reporter molecules. Ideally, both functionalities should be obtained from a single molecule. Here, we report the use of 3,5-dimercaptobenzoic acid, a single multifunctional molecule that creates SERS hotspots via the controlled aggregation of nanoparticles, and also reports pH values. We show that 3,5-dimercaptobenzoic acid bound to Au nanospheres results in an excellent pH nanoprobe, producing very robust, and highly reproducible SERS signals that can report pH across the entire physiological range with excellent pH resolution. To demonstrate the efficacy of our novel pH reporters, these probes were also used to image both the particle and pH distribution in the cytoplasm of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs).
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- Latevi S Lawson
- NSF Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California 95817, USA
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Guay JM, Lapointe-Garant PP, Gosselin R, Simard JS, Abatzoglou N. Development of a multivariate light-induced fluorescence (LIF) PAT tool for in-line quantitative analysis of pharmaceutical granules in a V-blender. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2014; 86:524-31. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2013.12.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2013] [Revised: 12/07/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2013] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Urbančič I, Arsov Z, Ljubetič A, Biglino D, Strancar J. Bleaching-corrected fluorescence microspectroscopy with nanometer peak position resolution. OPTICS EXPRESS 2013; 21:25291-25306. [PMID: 24150370 DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.025291] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Fluorescence microspectroscopy (FMS) with environmentally sensitive dyes provides information about local molecular surroundings at microscopic spatial resolution. Until recently, only probes exhibiting large spectral shifts due to local changes have been used. For filter-based experimental systems, where signal at different wavelengths is acquired sequentially, photostability has been required in addition. Herein, we systematically analyzed our spectral fitting models and bleaching correction algorithms which mitigate both limitations. We showed that careful analysis of data acquired by stochastic wavelength sampling enables nanometer spectral peak position resolution even for highly photosensitive fluorophores. To demonstrate how small spectral shifts and changes in bleaching rates can be exploited, we analyzed vesicles in different lipid phases. Our findings suggest that a wide range of dyes, commonly used in bulk spectrofluorimetry but largely avoided in microspectroscopy due to the above-mentioned restrictions, can be efficiently applied also in FMS.
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Wu J, Shekhar N, Lele PP, Lele TP. FRAP analysis: accounting for bleaching during image capture. PLoS One 2012; 7:e42854. [PMID: 22912750 PMCID: PMC3415426 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2012] [Accepted: 07/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The analysis of Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) experiments involves mathematical modeling of the fluorescence recovery process. An important feature of FRAP experiments that tends to be ignored in the modeling is that there can be a significant loss of fluorescence due to bleaching during image capture. In this paper, we explicitly include the effects of bleaching during image capture in the model for the recovery process, instead of correcting for the effects of bleaching using reference measurements. Using experimental examples, we demonstrate the usefulness of such an approach in FRAP analysis.
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- Jun Wu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida, United States of America
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Immunofluorescence is a technique allowing the visualization of a specific protein or antigen in cells or tissue sections by binding a specific antibody chemically conjugated with a fluorescent dye such as fluorescein isothiocyanate. There are two major types of immunofluorescence staining methods: (1) direct immunofluorescence staining in which the primary antibody is labeled with fluorescence dye and (2) indirect immunofluorescence staining in which a secondary antibody labeled with fluorochrome is used to recognize a primary antibody. This chapter describes procedures for the application of indirect immunofluorescence staining to neural cells in culture.
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Biondi M, Fusco S, Lewis AL, Netti PA. New Insights into the Mechanisms of the Interactions Between Doxorubicin and the Ion-Exchange Hydrogel DC Bead™ for Use in Transarterial Chemoembolization (TACE). JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE-POLYMER EDITION 2012; 23:333-54. [DOI: 10.1163/092050610x551934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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- Marco Biondi
- a Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB), University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy; Department of Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry, University of Naples Federico II, via Domenico Montesano 49, 80131 Naples, Italy
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- b Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB), University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy; Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy
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- c Biocompatibles UK Ltd., Farnham Business Park, Weydon Lane, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8QL, UK
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- d Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB), University of Naples Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy; Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), via Morego 30, 16163 Genoa, Italy
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Cholesterol plays an important role in determining the biophysical properties of biological membranes, and its concentration is tightly controlled by homeostatic processes. The intracellular transport of cholesterol among organelles is a key part of the homeostatic mechanism, but sterol transport processes are not well understood. Fluorescence microscopy is a valuable tool for studying intracellular transport processes, but this method can be challenging for lipid molecules because addition of a fluorophore may alter the properties of the molecule greatly. We discuss the use of fluorescent molecules that can bind to cholesterol to reveal its distribution in cells. We also discuss the use of intrinsically fluorescent sterols that closely mimic cholesterol, as well as some minimally modified fluorophore-labeled sterols. Methods for imaging these sterols by conventional fluorescence microscopy and by multiphoton microscopy are described. Some label-free methods for imaging cholesterol itself are also discussed briefly.
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Agnarsson B, Jonsdottir AB, Arnfinnsdottir NB, Leosson K. On-chip modulation of evanescent illumination and live-cell imaging with polymer waveguides. OPTICS EXPRESS 2011; 19:22929-22935. [PMID: 22109170 DOI: 10.1364/oe.19.022929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Imaging of live cells was carried out using evanescent-wave excitation on a polymer waveguide chip. Integrated waveguide-based interferometric light modulators were fabricated in order to demonstrate on-chip control of excitation light, e.g., for time-lapse fluorescence microscopy. When combined with a sensitive high-resolution imaging system, the integrated waveguide-excitation platform provides an ideal method of near-surface studies of live cells, where photobleaching and/or phototoxicity effects are of critical concern.
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- Björn Agnarsson
- Department of Physics, Science Institute, University of Iceland, Dunhagi 3,IS-107 Reykjavik, Iceland
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Hsu CJ, Baumgart T. Spatial association of signaling proteins and F-actin effects on cluster assembly analyzed via photoactivation localization microscopy in T cells. PLoS One 2011; 6:e23586. [PMID: 21887278 PMCID: PMC3160965 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2011] [Accepted: 07/21/2011] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Recognition of antigens by T cell receptors (TCRs) triggers cellular signaling cascades initiated by recruitment to the plasma membrane of numerous effector molecules to form signaling microclusters (MCs). Here we show that the method of high-resolution photoactivation localization microscopy (PALM) imaging can be used to analyze the spatial correlation between kinase ZAP70 and adaptor SLP76 MCs at the cell periphery and the effects of F-actin on MC assembly. We first determined the photophysical rate constants of Dronpa and tdEos fluorescence probes, which allowed us to optimize our dual-color PALM imaging method. We next analyzed the degrees of spatial association through determination of Mander's colocalization coefficients from PALM images, which revealed increasing spatial segregation of ZAP70 and SLP76 MCs at the cell periphery after initiation of signaling. We showed that this spatial segregation at the cell periphery occurred in parallel with the reduction of MC phosphorylation levels. Furthermore, we used Ripley's K function to analyze spatial randomness, and determined average radii of clusters as a function of activation time. The average radii of SLP76 and LAT MCs were found to decrease, whereas ZAP70 MC radii remained relatively constant. Finally, effects of F-actin depolymerization on MC morphology were studied by determining radial distributions of cluster circularity. Our data suggest that MC morphology is affected by actin polymerization. The quantitative analysis of sub-diffraction PALM images may provide a starting point for a molecular interpretation of cluster-cluster interactions and of the regulation of T cell signaling MCs by the cytoskeleton.
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- Chih-Jung Hsu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Wüstner D, Brewer JR, Bagatolli L, Sage D. Potential of ultraviolet wide-field imaging and multiphoton microscopy for analysis of dehydroergosterol in cellular membranes. Microsc Res Tech 2011; 74:92-108. [PMID: 21181715 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Dehydroergosterol (DHE) is an intrinsically fluorescent sterol with absorption/emission in the ultraviolet (UV) region and biophysical properties similar to those of cholesterol. We compared the potential of UV-sensitive low-light-level wide-field (UV-WF) imaging with that of multiphoton (MP) excitation microscopy to monitor DHE in living cells. Significantly reduced photobleaching in MP microscopy of DHE enabled us to acquire three-dimensional z-stacks of DHE-stained cells and to obtain high-resolution maps of DHE in surface ruffles, nanotubes, and the apical membrane of epithelial cells. We found that the lateral resolution of MP microscopy is ∼1.5-fold higher than that of UV-WF deconvolution microscopy, allowing for improved spatiotemporal analysis of plasma membrane sterol distribution. Surface intensity patterns of DHE with a diameter of 0.2 μm persisting over several minutes could be resolved by MP time-lapse microscopy. Diffusion coefficients of 0.25-μm-diameter endocytic vesicles containing DHE were determined by MP spatiotemporal image correlation spectroscopy. The requirement of extremely high laser power for visualization of DHE by MP microscopy made this method less potent for multicolor applications with organelle markers like green fluorescent protein-tagged proteins. The signal-to-noise ratio obtainable by UV-WF imaging could be significantly improved by pixelwise bleach rate fitting and calculation of an amplitude image from the decay model and by frame averaging after pixelwise bleaching correction of the image stacks. We conclude that UV-WF imaging and MP microscopy of DHE provide complementary information regarding membrane distribution and intracellular targeting of sterols.
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- Daniel Wüstner
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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Quantitative assessment of sterol traffic in living cells by dual labeling with dehydroergosterol and BODIPY-cholesterol. Chem Phys Lipids 2011; 164:221-35. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2011.01.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2010] [Revised: 01/14/2011] [Accepted: 01/24/2011] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Chmyrov A, Sandén T, Widengren J. Iodide as a fluorescence quencher and promoter--mechanisms and possible implications. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:11282-91. [PMID: 20695476 DOI: 10.1021/jp103837f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In this work, fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) was used to investigate the effects of potassium iodide (KI) on the electronic-state population kinetics of a range of organic dyes in the visible wavelength range. Apart from a heavy atom effect promoting intersystem crossing to the triplet states in all dyes, KI was also found to enhance the triplet-state decay rate by a charge-coupled deactivation. This deactivation was only found for dyes with excitation maximum in the blue range, not for those with excitation maxima at wavelengths in the green range or longer. Consequently, under excitation conditions sufficient for triplet state formation, KI can promote the triplet state buildup of one dye and reduce it for another, red-shifted dye. This anticorrelated, spectrally separable response of two different dyes to the presence of one and the same agent may provide a useful readout for biomolecular interaction and microenvironmental monitoring studies. In contrast to the typical notion of KI as a fluorescence quencher, the FCS measurements also revealed that when added in micromolar concentrations KI can act as an antioxidant, promoting the recovery of photo-oxidized fluorophores. However, in millimolar concentrations KI also reduces intact, fluorescently viable fluorophores to a considerable extent. In aqueous solutions, for the dye Rhodamine Green, an optimal concentration of KI of approximately 5 mM can be defined at which the fluorescence signal is maximized. This concentration is not high enough to allow full triplet state quenching. Therefore, as a fluorescence enhancement agent, it is primarily the antioxidative properties of KI that play a role.
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- Andriy Chmyrov
- Experimental Biomolecular Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Mayol L, Biondi M, Quaglia F, Fusco S, Borzacchiello A, Ambrosio L, La Rotonda MI. Injectable thermally responsive mucoadhesive gel for sustained protein delivery. Biomacromolecules 2010; 12:28-33. [PMID: 21142090 DOI: 10.1021/bm1008958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Poloxamer thermoresponsive gels are widely explored in controlled drug delivery. Nevertheless, these gels possess inadequate mechanical properties, poor bioadhesiveness, and high permeability to water. To overcome these issues, we blended mucoadhesive hyaluronic acid (HA) with poloxamer analogs. This study aimed to investigate the features affecting the microscopic properties of the gels, which determine their macroscopic properties and capability to control/sustain protein release. Results showed that HA hampers water-poloxamer interactions, thus, strongly influencing physicochemical properties of poloxamer gels. This leads to gels with improved mechanical properties in which the diffusion kinetics of macromolecular active molecules are drastically slowed down. Poloxamer-HA gels can sustain the delivery of proteins, such as insulin, and may allow the modulation of its release kinetics by modifying HA content within the gels in the administration sites in which the active molecule release mechanism is mainly governed by its diffusion.
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- Laura Mayol
- Department of Pharmaceutical and Toxicological Chemistry, University of Naples Federico II, Via D. Montesano, 49, 800131 Naples, Italy.
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Petty HR, Elner VM, Kawaji T, Clark A, Thompson D, Yang DL. A facile method for immunofluorescence microscopy of highly autofluorescent human retinal sections using nanoparticles with large Stokes shifts. J Neurosci Methods 2010; 191:222-6. [PMID: 20619292 PMCID: PMC3066058 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2010] [Revised: 06/29/2010] [Accepted: 07/01/2010] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The human retina is rich in autofluorescent species, such as lipofuscin and melanin. Consequently, it is difficult to localize antigens in the human retina using immunofluorescence microscopy. To address this issue, we have developed a methodology to tag retinal antigens using quantum dot nanoparticles that absorb in the ultraviolet and emit in the infrared, thereby avoiding the visible spectrum. This protocol dramatically improves signal-to-background autofluorescence ratios of immunofluorescence images of human retinal sections, thus enhancing the specific fluorescence in microscopic studies. Of particular note is the ability to detect antigens within the brightly autofluorescent RPE cell layer.
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- Howard R Petty
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
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MAHIEU-WILLIAME L, FALGAYRETTES P, NATIVEL L, GALL-BORRUT P, COSTA L, SALEHZADA T, BISBAL C. Near-field microscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy: application to chromosomes labelled with different fluorophores. J Microsc 2010; 238:36-43. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2009.03326.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Wüstner D, Landt Larsen A, Faergeman NJ, Brewer JR, Sage D. Selective Visualization of Fluorescent Sterols in Caenorhabditis elegans by Bleach-Rate-Based Image Segmentation. Traffic 2010; 11:440-54. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2010.01040.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Gareau DS, Karen JK, Dusza SW, Tudisco M, Nehal KS, Rajadhyaksha M. Sensitivity and specificity for detecting basal cell carcinomas in Mohs excisions with confocal fluorescence mosaicing microscopy. JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS 2009; 14:034012. [PMID: 19566305 PMCID: PMC2705883 DOI: 10.1117/1.3130331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Recent studies have demonstrated the ability of confocal fluorescence mosaicing microscopy to rapidly detect basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) directly in thick and fresh Mohs surgical excisions. Mosaics of confocal images display large areas of tissue with high resolution and magnification equivalent to 2x, which is the standard magnification when examining pathology. Comparison of mosaics to Mohs frozen histopathology was shown to be excellent for all types of BCCs. However, comparisons in the previous studies were visual and qualitative. In this work, we report the results of a semiquantitative preclinical study in which 45 confocal mosaics are blindly evaluated for the presence (or absence) of BCC tumor. The evaluations are made by two clinicians: a senior Mohs surgeon with prior expertise in interpreting confocal images, and a novice Mohs fellow with limited experience. The blinded evaluation is compared to the gold standard of frozen histopathology. BCCs are detected with an overall sensitivity of 96.6%, specificity of 89.2%, positive predictive value of 93.0%, and negative predictive value of 94.7%. The results demonstrate the potential clinical utility of confocal mosaicing microscopy toward rapid surgical pathology at the bedside to expedite and guide surgery.
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- Daniel S Gareau
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Dermatology Service, Room 230, 160 East 53rd Street, New York, New York 10022, USA.
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Karen JK, Gareau DS, Dusza SW, Tudisco M, Rajadhyaksha M, Nehal KS. Detection of basal cell carcinomas in Mohs excisions with fluorescence confocal mosaicing microscopy. Br J Dermatol 2009; 160:1242-50. [PMID: 19416248 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2009.09141.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND High-resolution real-time imaging of human skin is possible with a confocal microscope either in vivo or in freshly excised tissue ex vivo. Nuclear and cellular morphology is observed in thin optical sections, similar to that in conventional histology. Contrast agents such as acridine orange in fluorescence and acetic acid in reflectance have been used in ex vivo imaging to enhance nuclear contrast. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of ex vivo real-time imaging with fluorescence confocal mosaicing microscopy, using acridine orange, for the detection of residual basal cell carcinoma (BCC) in Mohs fresh tissue excisions. METHODS Forty-eight discarded skin excisions were collected following completion of Mohs surgery, consisting of excisions with and without residual BCC of all major subtypes. The tissue was stained with acridine orange and imaged with a fluorescent confocal mosaicing microscope. Confocal mosaics were matched to the corresponding haematoxylin and eosin-stained Mohs frozen sections. Each mosaic was divided into subsections, resulting in 149 submosaics for study. Two Mohs surgeons, who were blinded to the cases, independently assessed confocal submosaics and recorded the presence or absence of BCC, location, and histological subtype(s). Assessment of confocal mosaics was by comparison with corresponding Mohs surgery maps. RESULTS The overall sensitivity and specificity of detecting residual BCC was 96.6% and 89.2%, respectively. The positive predictive value was 92.3% and the negative predictive value 94.7%. Very good correlation was observed between confocal mosaics and matched Mohs frozen sections for benign and malignant skin structures, overall tumour burden and location, and identification of all major histological subtypes of BCC. CONCLUSIONS Fluorescent confocal mosaicing microscopy using acridine orange enables detection of residual BCC of all subtypes in Mohs fresh tissue excisions with high accuracy. This observation is an important step towards the long-term clinical goal of using a noninvasive imaging modality for potential real-time surgical pathology-at-the-bedside for skin and other tissues.
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- J K Karen
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10022, USA
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Zhang X, Badea C, Jacob M, Johnson GA. Development of a noncontact 3-D fluorescence tomography system for small animal in vivo imaging. PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE--THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING 2009; 7191:nihpa106691. [PMID: 19587837 DOI: 10.1117/12.808199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Fluorescence imaging is an important tool for tracking molecular-targeting probes in preclinical studies. It offers high sensitivity, but nonetheless low spatial resolution compared to other leading imaging methods such CT and MRI. We demonstrate our methodological development in small animal in vivo whole-body imaging using fluorescence tomography. We have implemented a noncontact fluid-free fluorescence diffuse optical tomography system that uses a raster-scanned continuous-wave diode laser as the light source and an intensified CCD camera as the photodetector. The specimen is positioned on a motorized rotation stage. Laser scanning, data acquisition, and stage rotation are controlled via LabVIEW applications. The forward problem in the heterogeneous medium is based on a normalized Born method, and the sensitivity function is determined using a Monte Carlo method. The inverse problem (image reconstruction) is performed using a regularized iterative algorithm, in which the cost function is defined as a weighted sum of the L-2 norms of the solution image, the residual error, and the image gradient. The relative weights are adjusted by two independent regularization parameters. Our initial tests of this imaging system were performed with an imaging phantom that consists of a translucent plastic cylinder filled with tissue-simulating liquid and two thin-wall glass tubes containing indocyanine green. The reconstruction is compared to the output of a finite element method-based software package NIRFAST and has produced promising results.
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- Xiaofeng Zhang
- Dept. of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3302, Durham, NC, 27710
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Clegg RM. Chapter 1 Förster resonance energy transfer—FRET what is it, why do it, and how it's done. FRET AND FLIM TECHNIQUES 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0075-7535(08)00001-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Lee SC, Bajcsy P. Trajectory Fusion for Three-dimensional Volume Reconstruction. COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING : CVIU 2008; 110:19-31. [PMID: 19343076 PMCID: PMC2387280 DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2007.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We address the 3D volume reconstruction problem from depth adjacent sub-volumes acquired by a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM). Our goal is to align the sub-volumes by estimating a set of optimal global transformations that preserve morphological continuity of medical structures, e.g., blood vessels, in the reconstructed 3D volume. We approach the problem by learning morphological characteristics of structures of interest in each sub-volume to understand global alignment transformations. Based on the observations of morphology, sub-volumes are aligned by connecting the morphological features at the sub-volume boundaries by minimizing morphological discontinuity. To minimize the discontinuity, we introduce three morphological discontinuity metrics: discontinuity magnitude at sub-volume boundary points, and overall and junction discontinuity residuals after polynomial curve fitting to multiple aligned sub-volumes. The proposed techniques have been applied to the problem of aligning CLSM sub-volumes acquired from four consecutive physical cross sections. Our experimental results demonstrated significant improvements of morphological smoothness of medical structures in comparison with the results obtained by feature matching at the sub-volume boundaries. The experimental results were evaluated by visual inspection and by quantifying morphological discontinuity metrics.
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Vicente NB, Zamboni JED, Adur JF, Paravani EV, Casco VH. Photobleaching correction in fluorescence microscopy images. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/90/1/012068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Widengren J, Chmyrov A, Eggeling C, Löfdahl PA, Seidel CAM. Strategies to improve photostabilities in ultrasensitive fluorescence spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2007; 111:429-40. [PMID: 17228891 DOI: 10.1021/jp0646325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Given the particular importance of dye photostability for single-molecule and fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy investigations, refined strategies were explored for how to chemically retard dye photobleaching. These strategies will be useful for fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), fluorescence-based confocal single-molecule detection (SMD) and related techniques. In particular, the effects on the addition of two main categories of antifading compounds, antioxidants (n-propyl gallate, nPG, ascorbic acid, AA) and triplet state quenchers (mercaptoethylamine, MEA, cyclo-octatetraene, COT), were investigated, and the relevant rate parameters involved were determined for the dye Rhodamine 6G. Addition of each of the compound categories resulted in significant improvements in the fluorescence brightness of the monitored fluorescent molecules in FCS measurements. For antioxidants, we identify the balance between reduction of photoionized fluorophores on the one hand and that of intact fluorophores on the other as an important guideline for what concentrations to be added for optimal fluorescence generation in FCS and SMD experiments. For nPG/AA, this optimal concentration was found to be in the lower micromolar range, which is considerably less than what has previously been suggested. Also, for MEA, which is a compound known as a triplet state quencher, it is eventually its antioxidative properties and the balance between reduction of fluorophore cation radicals and that of intact fluorophores that defines the optimal added concentration. Interestingly, in this optimal concentration range the triplet state quenching is still far from sufficient to fully minimize the triplet populations. We identify photoionization as the main mechanism of photobleaching within typical transit times of fluorescent molecules through the detection volume in a confocal FCS or SMD instrument (<1-20 ms), and demonstrate its generation via both one- and multistep excitation processes. Apart from reflecting a major pathway for photobleaching, our results also suggest the exploitation of the photoinduced ionization and the subsequent reduction by antioxidants for biomolecular monitoring purposes and as a possible switching mechanism with applications in high-resolution microscopy.
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- Jerker Widengren
- Experimental Biomolecular Physics, Department of Applied Physics, Albanova University Center, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Kim HM, Yang PR, Seo MS, Yi JS, Hong JH, Jeon SJ, Ko YG, Lee KJ, Cho BR. Magnesium ion selective two-photon fluorescent probe based on a benzo[h]chromene derivative for in vivo imaging. J Org Chem 2007; 72:2088-96. [PMID: 17316048 DOI: 10.1021/jo062341m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A novel, two-photon probe for the detection of free Mg2+ ions in living cells and live tissues has been developed. The probe can be excited by 880 nm laser photons, emits strong two-photon excited fluorescence in response to Mg2+ ions, can be easily loaded into the cell and tissue, shows high photostability, and can measure the Mg2+ ion concentration without interference by Ca2+ ions in living cells. The intracellular dissociation constant (Kdi) for Mg2+ determined by the two-photon process is 2.5 mM, which is suitable for dynamic Mg2+ concentration measurement. In addition, the probe is capable of imaging endogenous stores of free Mg2+ at a few hundred micrometers depth in live tissues using two-photon microscopy (TPM).
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- Hwan Myung Kim
- Molecular Opto-Electronics Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Center for Electro- and Photo-Responsive Molecules, Graduate School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, 1-Anamdong, Seoul 136-701, Korea
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Wüstner D. Plasma membrane sterol distribution resembles the surface topography of living cells. Mol Biol Cell 2007; 18:211-28. [PMID: 17065557 PMCID: PMC1751316 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e06-05-0445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Cholesterol is an important constituent of cellular membranes. It has been suggested that cholesterol segregates into sterol-rich and -poor domains in the plasma membrane, although clear evidence for this is lacking. By fluorescence imaging of the natural sterol dehydroergosterol (DHE), the lateral sterol distribution has been visualized in living cells. The spatial labeling pattern of DHE coincided with surface structures such as ruffles, microvilli, and filopodia with correlation lengths in the range of 0.8-2.5 microm. DHE staining of branched tubules and of nanotubes connecting two cells was detected. Dynamics of DHE in folded and plane membrane regions was comparable as determined by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching. DHE colocalized with fluid membrane-preferring phospholipids in surface structures and at sites of cell attachment as well as in the cleavage furrow of dividing cells, but it was not particularly enriched in those regions. Fluorescent sterol showed homogeneous staining in membrane blebs induced by F-actin disruption. Cross-linking the ganglioside GM1--a putative raft marker--did not affect the cell surface distribution of DHE. The results suggest that spatial heterogeneities of plasma membrane staining of DHE resolvable by light microscopy reflect the cell surface topography but not phase-separated sterol domains in the bilayer plane.
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- Daniel Wüstner
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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Lee SC, Bajcsy P. Intensity correction of fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscope images by mean-weight filtering. J Microsc 2006; 221:122-36. [PMID: 16499551 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2006.01546.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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This paper addresses the problem of intensity correction of fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscope images. Confocal laser scanning microscope images are frequently used in medicine for obtaining 3D information about specimen structures by imaging a set of 2D cross sections and performing 3D volume reconstruction afterwards. However, 2D images acquired from fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscope images demonstrate significant intensity heterogeneity, for example, due to photo-bleaching and fluorescent attenuation in depth. We developed an intensity heterogeneity correction technique that (a) adjusts the intensity heterogeneity of 2D images, (b) preserves fine structural details and (c) enhances image contrast, by performing spatially adaptive mean-weight filtering. Our solution is obtained by formulating an optimization problem, followed by filter design and automated selection of filtering parameters. The proposed filtering method is experimentally compared with several existing techniques by using four quality metrics: contrast, intensity heterogeneity (entropy) in a low frequency domain, intensity distortion in a high frequency domain and saturation. Based on our experiments and the four quality metrics, the developed mean-weight filtering outperforms other intensity correction methods by at least a factor of 1.5 when applied to fluorescent confocal laser scanning microscope images.
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- Sang-Chul Lee
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A
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Dixit R, Cyr R, Gilroy S. Using intrinsically fluorescent proteins for plant cell imaging. THE PLANT JOURNAL : FOR CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2006; 45:599-615. [PMID: 16441351 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313x.2006.02658.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
The intrinsically fluorescent proteins (IFPs), such as the green, cyan and yellow fluorescent proteins, have revolutionized how we can image the dynamics of cellular events. Intrinsically fluorescent proteins have been used as reporter genes to monitor transcriptional regulation, as targeted markers for organelles and subcellular structures, in fusion proteins to directly observe protein motility and dynamics, and in sensors designed to show changes in cellular environments ranging from pH to protein kinase activity. The IFPs hold tremendous potential to reveal the dynamic processes that underlie plant cell function; however, as with all technology there are artifacts and pitfalls inherent in their use. In this review, we highlight some of the practical issues in using IFPs for live cell imaging. These include choice of the appropriate IFP, dealing with autofluorescence, photobleaching and phototoxicity, and application of approaches such as fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) to gain high-resolution data about protein dynamics within the cell. We also discuss some of the more common artifacts associated with these fluorescence imaging approaches and suggest controls that should help both spot these problems and suggest their solutions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ram Dixit
- Biology Department, The Pennsylvania State University, 208 Mueller Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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