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近场光学显微术在生物大分子探测与功能研究中的应用 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
近场光学显微术是唯一一种具有单分子探测灵敏度,且在对生物样品研究时无损伤的一门新兴的高分辨光学显微术,它是根据近场光学理论在扫描探针显微术的基础上发展起来的。它突破了传统光学显微术衍射极限的限制,可在不损伤样品的情况下同时获得其形貌像和光学像,故在探测单个生物分子并研究其结构和功能以及分子间的相互作用等方面具有显著优势。本文主要介绍近几年来近场光学显微术在生物分子探测和功能研究,以及在分子生物学研究中的应用与进展。 相似文献
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DNA单分子近场光学成像与荧光探测 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
介绍了扫描近场光学(SNOM-Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscope)/原子力显微镜(AFM-Atomic Force Microscope)系统(SNO/AM)的工作原理。在AFM模式和SNOM模式下对DNA分子进行成像和荧光探测,得到了清晰的DNA单分子的形貌像和荧光像。由形貌圆像得到的DNA分子尺寸横向为20nm,高度为2nm,其中包含了探针形貌的影响。实验中采Tapping模式的AFM成像,样品经多次搜索扫描无明显损坏。AFM模式的分辨率优于1nm。SNOM模式下DNA分子形貌像和荧光像清晰,由近场荧光分布可以确定分子取向和浓度。用YOYO-1染料对λDNA分子进行染色和荧光探测。通过对DNA分子多个截面进行测量,分析染料 与DNA结合状态。 相似文献
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近场光学显微镜具有nm量级的空间分辨率,量子点(quantum dots,QDs)荧光探针具有激发谱宽、发射谱线窄、荧光强度高、抗光漂白和稳定性高等优点,两者结合用于生物大分子的成像探测和识别具有广泛的应用前景。用近场光学显微镜对链霉亲和素偶联的QDs进行近场荧光激发,并对其荧光发射特性和光稳定性进行研究,结果表明:近场光学显微镜nm量级的空间分辨率,可以同时观察到了QDs的单体、二聚体和三聚体;QDs的荧光发射强度高,近场荧光像对比度好,单量子点的荧光半高宽达到25nm;对一定入射波长的单色激发光,QDs的近场荧光强度随着激发功率密度的增加线性增加,并很快趋于稳定。与传统的荧光染料如异硫氰酸荧光素相比,QDs的稳定性非常好,在激发功率密度为300W/cm2的近场辐射下,量子点的荧光强度超过6h基本保持不变,其抗光漂白能力远远高于普通荧光染料。 相似文献
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近场扫描光学显微镜(NSOM)对传统的光学分辨极限产生了革命性的突破,可在超高光学分辨率下无侵人性和无破坏性地对生物样品进行观测。量子点(QDs)具有极好的光学性能,如荧光寿命长、激发谱宽、生物相容性强、光稳定性好等优点,适合先进的生物成像。NSOM结合QDs标记的纳米技术被应用在细胞生物学中。通过纳米量级NSOM免疫荧光成像(50nm)对特定蛋白分子在细胞表面的动态分布进行可视化研究和数量化分析,阐明了蛋白分子在不同细胞过程中的作用机制。因此,NSOM/QD基成像系统提供了单个蛋白分子最高分辨率的荧光图像,为可视化研究蛋白分子机制的提供了一种强有力的工具。 相似文献
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建立了由倒置荧光显微镜和光学多道分析仪(OMA)连接而组成的适用于细胞荧光测量的多道显微荧光计,编制了数据处理程序。利用这一装置测量了单个细胞,多细胞的荧光光谱和拓扑(topography)。和传统的显微荧光计相比,该装置具有测量灵敏度和精度高、速度快等特点,可用来进行活细胞动态过程的研究。 相似文献
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激光共聚焦显微技术是一种以激光作为激发光源,通过特殊装置"针孔"来过滤离焦光线以提高光学分辨率和对比度的光学成像技术。由于大部分化石不能自发荧光,该技术在古生物学领域尚未实现大范围的应用。但若围岩能自发荧光而与化石之间具有一定衬度,或化石因含特殊成分能在特定波段激光照射下自发荧光而产生结构衬度,则可以运用激光共聚焦显微技术获得在普通光学显微镜及荧光显微镜下难以清晰观察到的信息。为推动激光共聚焦技术在古生物学领域中的应用,文中系统介绍了该技术的原理与使用方法,并以埃迪卡拉纪磷酸盐化特异埋藏的瓮安生物群微体化石为例,展示了该技术在化石成像中的若干优势。实验结果表明,瓮安生物群微体化石因富含磷灰石可自发荧光实现成像,使用激光共聚焦显微成像技术观察瓮安生物群化石薄片不仅可以获得较好衬度,而且还能提高成像的分辨率和清晰度。此外,在化石薄片的厚度范围内还可以实现化石结构三维重建。 相似文献
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Quantitative comparison of the sensitivity of detection of fluorescent and bioluminescent reporters in animal models 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
Bioluminescent and fluorescent reporters are finding increased use in optical molecular imaging in small animals. In the work presented here, issues related to the sensitivity of in vivo detection are examined for standard reporters. A high-sensitivity imaging system that can detect steady-state emission from both bioluminescent and fluorescent reporters is described. The instrument is absolutely calibrated so that animal images can be analyzed in physical units of radiance allowing more quantitative comparisons to be performed. Background emission from mouse tissue, called autoluminescence and autofluorescence, is measured and found to be an important limitation to detection sensitivity of reporters. Measurements of dual-labeled (bioluminescent/fluorescent) reporter systems, including PC-3M-luc/DsRed2-1 and HeLa-luc/PKH26, are shown. The results indicate that although fluorescent signals are generally brighter than bioluminescent signals, the very low autoluminescent levels usually results in superior signal to background ratios for bioluminescent imaging, particularly compared with fluorescent imaging in the green to red part of the spectrum. Fluorescence detection sensitivity improves in the far-red to near-infrared, provided the animals are fed a low-chlorophyll diet to reduce autofluorescence in the intestinal region. The use of blue-shifted excitation filters is explored as a method to subtract out tissue autofluorescence and improve the sensitivity of fluorescent imaging. 相似文献
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Nhan Le Hrebesh M. Subhash LaTonya Kilpatrick‐Liverman Ruikang K. Wang 《Journal of biophotonics》2020,13(7)
We report the development of an integrated multifunctional imaging system capable of providing anatomical (optical coherence tomography, OCT), functional (OCT angiography, OCTA) and molecular imaging (light‐induced autofluorescence, LIAF) for in vivo dental applications. Blue excitation light (405 nm) was used for LIAF imaging, while the OCT was powered by a 1310 nm swept laser source. A red‐green‐blue digital camera, with a 450 nm cut‐on broadband optical filter, was used for LIAF detection. The exciting light source and camera were integrated directly with the OCT scanning probe. The integrated system used two noninvasive imaging modalities to improve the speed of in vivo OCT data collection and to better target the regions of interest. The newly designed system maintained the ability to detect differences between healthy and hypomineralized teeth, identify dental biofilm and visualize the microvasculature of gingival tissue. The development of the integrated OCT‐LIAF system provides an opportunity to conduct clinical studies more efficiently, examining changes in oral conditions over time. 相似文献
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Jingyu Wang Andrew Baker Manju L Subramanian Nicole H Siegel Xuejing Chen Steven Ness Ji Yi 《Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.)》2022,247(5):377
A dual-channel optical coherence tomography system with wavelengths in the visible and near-infrared light ranges can provide both structural and functional information for retinal microvasculature simultaneously. We applied this integrated system in an ongoing clinical study of patients with various retinal pathologies. Here, we present case study results of patients with diabetic retinopathy, central retinal vein occlusion, and sickle cell retinopathy compared to a healthy subject. For the first time, this comparison validates the system’s ability to detect structural anomalies in both en face and B-scan images with simultaneous retinal optical coherence tomography angiography and measurement of sO2 in parafoveal vessels that are around 20–30 µm in diameter. This integrated system represents a powerful instrument with potentially far-reaching clinical implications for the early detection and diagnosis of retinal vascular diseases. 相似文献
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K K?nig H Schneckenburger R Hibst 《Cellular and molecular biology, including cyto-enzymology》1999,45(2):233-239
Laser-induced time-resolved autofluorescence from carious lesions of human teeth was studied by means of ultrashort pulsed laser systems, time-correlated single photon counting and time-gated imaging. Carious regions exhibited a slower fluorescence decay with a main 17 ns fluorescence lifetime than healthy hard dental tissue. The long-lived fluorophore present in carious lesions only emits in the red spectral region. Fluorescence decay time and spectral characteristics are typical of fluorescent metal-free porphyrin monomers. The spatial distribution of the long-lived endogenous porphyrin fluorophore within the tooth material was detected by time-gated nanosecond autofluorescence imaging. In particular, high contrast video images were obtained with an appropriate time delay of 15 ns to 25 ns between excitation and detection due to the suppression of short-lived autofluorescence of healthy tissue. First in vivo applications are reported indicating the potential of time-resolved fluorescence diagnostics for early caries- and dental plaque detection. 相似文献
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Shin-ichi Morita Sota Takanezawa Michio Hiroshima Toshiyuki Mitsui Yukihiro Ozaki Yasushi Sako 《Biophysical journal》2014,107(10):2221-2229
Cellular differentiation proceeds along complicated pathways, even when it is induced by extracellular signaling molecules. One of the major reasons for this complexity is the highly multidimensional internal dynamics of cells, which sometimes causes apparently stochastic responses in individual cells to extracellular stimuli. Therefore, to understand cell differentiation, it is necessary to monitor the internal dynamics of cells at single-cell resolution. Here, we used a Raman and autofluorescence spectrum analysis of single cells to detect dynamic changes in intracellular molecular components. MCF-7 cells are a human cancer-derived cell line that can be induced to differentiate into mammary-gland-like cells with the addition of heregulin (HRG) to the culture medium. We measured the spectra in the cytoplasm of MCF-7 cells during 12 days of HRG stimulation. The Raman scattering spectrum, which was the major component of the signal, changed with time. A multicomponent analysis of the Raman spectrum revealed that the dynamics of the major components of the intracellular molecules, including proteins and lipids, changed cyclically along the differentiation pathway. The background autofluorescence signals of Raman scattering also provided information about the differentiation process. Using the total information from the Raman and autofluorescence spectra, we were able to visualize the pathway of cell differentiation in the multicomponent phase space. 相似文献
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Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has been used for cell tracking and imaging gene expression in superficial or surgically exposed structures. However, in vivo murine imaging is often limited by several factors, including scatter and attenuation with depth and overlapping autofluorescence. The autofluorescence signals have spectral profiles that are markedly different from the GFP emission spectral profile. The use of spectral imaging allows separation and quantitation of these contributions to the total fluorescence signal seen in vivo by weighting known pure component profiles. Separation of relative GFP and autofluorescence signals is not readily possible using epifluorescent continuous-wave single excitation and emission bandpass imaging (EFI). To evaluate detection thresholds using these two methods, nude mice were subcutaneously injected with a series of GFP-expressing cells. For EFI, optimized excitation and emission bandpass filters were used. Owing to the ability to separate autofluorescence contributions from the emission signal using spectral imaging compared with the mixed contributions of GFP and autofluorescence in the emission signal recorded by the EFI system, we achieved a 300-fold improvement in the cellular detection limit. The detection limit was 3 x 10(3) cells for spectral imaging versus 1 x 10(6) cells for EFI. Despite contributions to image stacks from autofluorescence, a 100-fold dynamic range of cell number in the same image was readily visualized. Finally, spectral imaging was able to separate signal interference of red fluorescent protein from GFP images and vice versa. These findings demonstrate the utility of the approach in detecting low levels of multiple fluorescent markers for whole-animal in vivo applications. 相似文献
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Autofluorescence method to measure macular pigment optical densities fluorometry and autofluorescence imaging 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Delori FC 《Archives of biochemistry and biophysics》2004,430(2):156-162
Non-invasive measurement of the optical density of the human macular pigment by the autofluorescence method takes advantage of the fluorescence of lipofuscin in the human retinal pigment epithelium. Measuring the intensity of fluorescence above 550 nm, where macular pigment has essentially zero absorption, and stimulating the fluorescence with two wavelengths, one well absorbed by macular pigment and the other minimally absorbed by macular pigment, provides a single-pass measurement of the macular pigment optical density. The method is implemented either by fluorometry of lipofuscin to yield the optical density of the macular pigment in a 2 degrees diameter central area, or by autofluorescence imaging to yield a high-resolution map of the macular pigment distribution. 相似文献
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Mohd Imran Shahzad Ahmed Ahmad Zuhairi Abdullah Jabir Hakami Anis Ahmad Chaudhary Hassan Ahmad Rudayni Salah-Ud-Din Khan Afzal Khan Nosiba Suliman Basher 《Luminescence》2023,38(7):1064-1086
The penicillin derivative amoxicillin (AMX) plays an important role in treating various types of infections caused by bacteria. However, excessive use of AMX may have negative health effects. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to detect and quantify the AMX in pharmaceutical drugs, biological fluids, and environmental samples with high sensitivity. Therefore, this review article provides valuable and up-to-date information on nanostructured material-based optical and electrochemical sensors to detect AMX in various biological and chemical samples. The role of using different nanostructured materials on the performance of important optical sensors such as colorimetric sensors, fluorescence sensors, surface-enhanced Raman scattering sensors, chemiluminescence/electroluminescence sensors, optical immunosensors, optical fibre-based sensors, and several important electrochemical sensors based on different electrode types have been discussed. Moreover, nanocomposites, polymer, and MXenes-based electrochemical sensors have also been discussed, in which such materials are being used to further enhance the sensitivity of these sensors. Furthermore, nanocomposite-based photo-electrochemical sensors and the market availability of biosensors including AMX have also been discussed briefly. Finally, the conclusion, challenges, and future perspectives of the above-mentioned sensing techniques for AMX detection are presented. 相似文献
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Zhang J Fu Y Li G Zhao RY Lakowicz JR 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2011,(1):63-67
Metal nanoparticle probes were used as molecular imaging agents to detect the expression levels and spatial distributions of the CCR5 receptors on the cell surfaces. Alexa Fluor 647-labeled anti-CCR5 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were covalently bound to 20 nm silver nanoparticles to synthesize the mAb–metal complexes. We measured the single nanoparticle emission of the mAb–metal complexes, showing that the complexes displayed enhanced intensities and reduced lifetimes in comparison with the metal-free mAbs. Six HeLa cell lines with various CCR5 expressions were incubated with the mAb–metal complexes for the target-specific binding to the cell surfaces. Fluorescence cell images were recorded on a time-resolved confocal microscope. The collected images expressed clear CCR5 expression-dependent optical properties. Two regression curves were obtained on the basis of the emission intensity and lifetime over the entire cell images against the number of the CCR5 expression on the cells. The emission from the single mAb–metal complexes could be distinctly identified from the cellular autofluorescence on the cell images. The CCR5 spatial distributions on the cells were analyzed on the cell images and showed that the low-expression cells have the CCR5 receptors as individuals or small clusters but the high expression cells have them as the dense and discrete clusters on the cell surfaces. 相似文献