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PLoS One ; 11(3): e0147506, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27002724

RESUMO

Localization microscopy can image nanoscale cellular details. To address biological questions, the ability to distinguish multiple molecular species simultaneously is invaluable. Here, we present a new version of fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM) which detects the emission spectrum of each localized molecule, and can quantify changes in emission spectrum of individual molecules over time. This information can allow for a dramatic increase in the number of different species simultaneously imaged in a sample, and can create super-resolution maps showing how single molecule emission spectra vary with position and time in a sample.


Assuntos
Microscopia/métodos , Animais , Fluorescência , Camundongos , Células NIH 3T3
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Langmuir ; 31(3): 987-94, 2015 Jan 27.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25506739

RESUMO

Understanding surface and interfacial lateral organization in material and biological systems is critical in nearly every field of science. The continued development of tools and techniques viable for elucidation of interfacial and surface information is therefore necessary to address new questions and further current investigations. Sum frequency spectroscopy (SFS) is a label-free, nonlinear optical technique with inherent surface specificity that can yield critical organizational information on interfacial species. Unfortunately, SFS provides no spatial information on a surface; small scale heterogeneities that may exist are averaged over the large areas typically probed. Over the past decade, this has begun to be addressed with the advent of SFS microscopy. Here we detail the construction and function of a total internal reflection (TIR) SFS spectral and confocal fluorescence imaging microscope directly amenable to surface investigations. This instrument combines, for the first time, sample scanning TIR-SFS imaging with confocal fluorescence microscopy.


Assuntos
Microscopia Confocal/instrumentação , Microscopia de Fluorescência/instrumentação , Espectrometria de Fluorescência/instrumentação , Fluoreto de Cálcio/química , Etanolaminas/química , Ouro/química , Fosfatidilcolinas/química , Rodaminas/química , Propriedades de Superfície
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PLoS One ; 9(6): e98362, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24915511

RESUMO

Single-molecule localization microscopy of biological samples requires a precise knowledge of the employed fluorescent labels. Photoactivation, photoblinking and photobleaching of phototransformable fluorescent proteins influence the data acquisition and data processing strategies to be used in (Fluorescence) Photoactivation Localization Microscopy ((F)-PALM), notably for reliable molecular counting. As these parameters might depend on the local environment, they should be measured in cellulo in biologically relevant experimental conditions. Here, we measured phototransformation quantum yields for Dendra2 fused to actin in fixed mammalian cells in typical (F)-PALM experiments. To this aim, we developed a data processing strategy based on the clustering optimization procedure proposed by Lee et al (PNAS 109, 17436-17441, 2012). Using simulations, we estimated the range of experimental parameters (molecular density, molecular orientation, background level, laser power, frametime) adequate for an accurate determination of the phototransformation yields. Under illumination at 561 nm in PBS buffer at pH 7.4, the photobleaching yield of Dendra2 fused to actin was measured to be (2.5 ± 0.4) × 10(-5), whereas the blinking-off yield and thermally-activated blinking-on rate were measured to be (2.3 ± 0.2) × 10(-5) and 11.7 ± 0.5 s-1, respectively. These phototransformation yields differed from those measured in poly-vinyl alcohol (PVA) and were strongly affected by addition of the antifading agent 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane (DABCO). In the presence of DABCO, the photobleaching yield was reduced 2-fold, the blinking-off yield was decreased more than 3-fold, and the blinking-on rate was increased 2-fold. Therefore, DABCO largely improved Dendra2 photostability in fixed mammalian cells. These findings are consistent with redox-based bleaching and blinking mechanisms under (F)-PALM experimental conditions. Finally, the green-to-red photoconversion quantum yield of Dendra2 was estimated to be (1.4 ± 0.6) × 10(-5) in cellulo under 405 nm illumination.


Assuntos
Proteínas Luminescentes/efeitos da radiação , Animais , Chlorocebus aethiops , Células HeLa , Humanos , Microscopia de Fluorescência/métodos , Estimulação Luminosa , Células Vero
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Biophys J ; 104(10): 2182-92, 2013 May 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23708358

RESUMO

The influenza viral membrane protein hemagglutinin (HA) is required at high concentrations on virion and host-cell membranes for infectivity. Because the role of actin in membrane organization is not completely understood, we quantified the relationship between HA and host-cell actin at the nanoscale. Results obtained using superresolution fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM) in nonpolarized cells show that HA clusters colocalize with actin-rich membrane regions (ARMRs). Individual molecular trajectories in live cells indicate restricted HA mobility in ARMRs, and actin disruption caused specific changes to HA clustering. Surprisingly, the actin-binding protein cofilin was excluded from some regions within several hundred nanometers of HA clusters, suggesting that HA clusters or adjacent proteins within the same clusters influence local actin structure. Thus, with the use of imaging, we demonstrate a dynamic relationship between glycoprotein membrane organization and the actin cytoskeleton at the nanoscale.


Assuntos
Actinas/metabolismo , Glicoproteínas de Hemaglutininação de Vírus da Influenza/metabolismo , Citoesqueleto de Actina/metabolismo , Fatores de Despolimerização de Actina/metabolismo , Animais , Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Membrana Celular/ultraestrutura , Glicoproteínas de Hemaglutininação de Vírus da Influenza/química , Glicoproteínas de Hemaglutininação de Vírus da Influenza/ultraestrutura , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H2N2/química , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H2N2/metabolismo , Camundongos , Células NIH 3T3 , Multimerização Proteica
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Biophys J ; 101(6): 1522-8, 2011 Sep 21.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21943434

RESUMO

Localization-based superresolution optical imaging is rapidly gaining popularity, yet limited availability of genetically encoded photoactivatable fluorescent probes with distinct emission spectra impedes simultaneous visualization of multiple molecular species in living cells. We introduce PAmKate, a monomeric photoactivatable far-red fluorescent protein, which facilitates simultaneous imaging of three photoactivatable proteins in mammalian cells using fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM). Successful probe identification was achieved by measuring the fluorescence emission intensity in two distinct spectral channels spanning only ~100 nm of the visible spectrum. Raft-, non-raft-, and cytoskeleton-associated proteins were simultaneously imaged in both live and fixed fibroblasts coexpressing Dendra2-hemagglutinin, PAmKate-transferrin receptor, and PAmCherry1-ß-actin fusion constructs, revealing correlations between the membrane proteins and membrane-associated actin structures.


Assuntos
Proteínas Luminescentes/química , Microscopia de Fluorescência/métodos , Actinas/química , Animais , Sobrevivência Celular , Cor , Hemaglutininas/química , Camundongos , Células NIH 3T3 , Receptores da Transferrina/química
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Nat Methods ; 5(12): 1027-30, 2008 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19011626

RESUMO

Knowledge of the orientation of molecules within biological structures is crucial to understanding the mechanisms of cell function. We present a method to image simultaneously the positions and fluorescence anisotropies of large numbers of single molecules with nanometer lateral resolution within a sample. Based on a simple modification of fluorescence photoactivation localization microscopy (FPALM), polarization (P)-FPALM does not compromise speed or sensitivity. We show results for mouse fibroblasts expressing Dendra2-actin or Dendra2-hemagglutinin.


Assuntos
Biopolímeros/química , Biopolímeros/metabolismo , Fibroblastos/metabolismo , Microscopia de Fluorescência/métodos , Nanoestruturas/química , Nanotecnologia/métodos , Animais , Anisotropia , Células Cultivadas , Camundongos , Nanoestruturas/ultraestrutura
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