有光敏治癌效用的血卟啉及其衍生物荧光量子效率

四吡喀大环化合物血卟啉及其衍生物具有集中和潴留在癌组织内的特性。针剂静注人体后借405nm激光探查出现的橙红色荧光,能诊断患癌组织的部位。由于癌细胞选择性吸收血卟啉,施用630nm强光辐照即产生一系列光敏化作用,使癌肿瘤组织坏死脱落。这种新型物理疗法,已被各国列为诊断和治疗癌症的重点研究课题。血卟啉及其衍生物辐照后其荧光强度与该物质本身的荧光量子效率成正比。迄今尚无文献报道血卟啉的荧光量子效率(φ),我们以发射量子数与吸收量子     

人体鼻咽组织的时间分辨自体荧光光谱研究

实验研究了在397 nm半导体脉冲激光激发下,人体离体鼻咽正常和癌变组织在600 nm荧光发射波长处的时间分辨自体荧光光谱特性。利用双指数衰减方程对时间分辨自体荧光光谱进行拟合后,获得相应的荧光强度随时间的指数衰减方程以及荧光平均寿命。人体鼻咽癌变和正常组织在600 nm处的自体荧光平均寿命分别为(2.94±0.51)ns和(4.29±0.71)ns,两者之间存在显著的差异。应用时间分辨光谱技术的诊断灵敏度和特异性分别为75%和100%。初步表明了时间分辨自体荧光光谱在早期鼻咽癌诊断的应用价值,该方法可望与传统的稳态荧光光谱结合起来,进一步提高早期鼻咽癌荧光诊断的准确率。     

光系统Ⅱ捕光复合体飞秒时间分辨荧光特性的研究

采用时间分辨荧光光谱技术研究了菠菜（Spinacia oleracea L.）叶绿体叶捕光色素复合体（LHC Ⅱ）荧光的时间特性和光谱特性。用脉宽为120fs、波长为400nm的倍频钛宝石激光激发LHCⅡ样品;原始荧光信号由Boxcar采集,通过建立多指数模型,用非线性最小二乘法拟合,得到了激发能在LHCⅡ中传递的时间常数分别为：320fs、4.0ps和20.0ps。相对应的各组分荧光占总荧光的非分比分别为：3.4%、50.0%和46.6%。经全局分析,解得荧光强度随波长变化曲线;用高斯3峰解叠得到荧光光谱的峰值波长分别为：652nm、672nm和691nm。通过分析得出了时间常数与LHCⅡ中各色素成分之间的对应关系,并给出了可能的能量传递模型。     

金属酞菁光敏剂的三阶非线性光学性能研究

从光动力治疗癌症的疗效着眼研究酞菁配合物的三阶非线性光学性能。用时间分辨简并四波混频方法测量苯硫基钛菁锌(C56H32S4Zn),苯硫基铝酞菁(C56H32AlN8O4)以及烷氧基铝酞菁(C56H32AlN8O4)的三阶非线性光极化率;测量四波混频响应的衰减过程;研究时间响应的超快过程和慢过程及其动力学机制,它们分别对应于单态和三线态的寿命。在荧光显微成像系统中观察三种酞菁光敏剂对人肝癌细胞杀伤的形态变化,并用MTT方法检测细胞存活率。对三种酞菁配合物的三线态量子产率和寿命进行测定,结果与它们对人肝癌细胞的光动力杀伤作用相关联。     

水葫芦及菠菜光合作用原初光反应的超快光谱研究

采用相同的分离技术,从水葫芦(Eichhornia crassipes(Mart)Solms.)和菠菜(Spinacia oleracea L.)叶片中提取叶绿体.利用吸收光谱和低温荧光光谱及皮秒荧光单光子计数技术对它们的光谱性质和光系统Ⅱ荧光寿命进行了研究.这两种叶绿体吸收光谱相似,暗示着它们都能高效吸收不同波长的光子.低温荧光光谱显示,水葫芦叶绿体两个光系统之间激发能分配平衡状态差,表明不利于该植物叶绿体高效利用吸收的光子能.采用三指数动力学模型对测定的光系统Ⅱ荧光衰减曲线拟合,水葫芦叶绿体光系统Ⅱ荧光衰减寿命分别是:138,521和1 494 ps;菠菜叶绿体荧光寿命分别是:197,465和1 459ps.并且归属了荧光组分,慢速度荧光衰减是由叶绿素堆积造成的,中等速度荧光衰减源于PSⅡ反应中心重新结合电荷组分,快速度荧光衰减归属于PSⅡ反应中心组分.基于20ps模型计算的水葫芦和菠菜叶绿体PSⅡ反应中心激发能转能效率分别是87%和91%.该结果与转能效率为100%的观点不一致.实验结果支持PSⅡ反应中心电荷分裂20 ps时间常数模型.根据转能效率,水葫芦生长速度不大于菠菜生长速度,但是,水葫芦叶绿体中含有丰富的胡萝卜素成分,其单位质量叶绿体吸收光能大于单位质量菠菜叶绿体吸收的量.实验结果还暗示植物叶绿体体系传能高效,接近于100%.     

超高产杂交水稻皮秒分辨荧光特性

采用时间分辨荧光光谱测试系统,研究了超高产杂交水稻(Oryza sativa L.)两优培九(P9)和对照汕优63(SH 63)类囊体膜的荧光光谱特性和时间特性.以脉宽为120 ps,重复率为4MHz,波长为514 nm的Ar+激光分别激发P9和SH 63水稻类囊体膜荧光.通过对其超快荧光的时间特性和光谱特性比较研究发现:无论是在灌浆期还是在扬花期,P9水稻类囊体膜中光系统I激发能传递的速度比光系统Ⅱ的快;P9和SH 63两种水稻类囊体膜在灌浆期的激发能传递速度都比扬花期的快;两种水稻类囊体膜的光谱特性还给出,在从扬花期到灌浆期这一生长发育过程中,SH 63水稻类囊体膜的色素成分和结合状态发生了变化,而P9却没有出现这种变化.     

超高产杂交水稻皮秒分辨荧光特性

采用时间分辨荧光光谱测试系统，研究了超高产杂交水稻(Oryza sativa L.)两优培九(P9)和对照汕优63(SH 63)类囊体膜的荧光光谱特性和时间特性。以脉宽为120ps，重复率为4MHz，波长为514nm的Ar^-激光分别激发P9和SH 63水稻类囊体膜荧光。通过对其超快荧光的时间特性和光谱特性比较研究发现：无论是在灌浆期还是在扬花期，P9水稻类囊体膜中光系统I激发能传递的速度比光系统Ⅱ的快；P9和SH 63两种水稻类囊体膜在灌浆期的激发能传递速度都比扬花期的快；两种水稻类囊体膜的光谱特性还给出，在从扬花期到灌浆期这一生长发育过程中，SH63水稻类囊体膜的色素成分和结合状态发生了变化，而P9却没有出现这种变化。     

荧光光谱分析法在地沟油鉴别中的应用研究

由于地沟油的成分含量复杂性和不定量性,导致了现有的单一检测方法不能同时满足快速和准确的辨认。荧光光谱具有高灵敏度和分辨率的特性,由此提出了一种利用荧光光谱快速检测食用油中是否掺有地沟油的新方法。将花生油分成7组,每组油所含的地沟油的比例不同,用220 nm到800 nm的激发和发射光检测各组样品油,收集其荧光数据后做归一化处理进行分析。在荧光实验中,特别是在365 nm和720 nm激发波长波段和434 nm发射波长波段,样品油的荧光强度与所含地沟油的体积分数大小明显成反比,当地沟油的体积分数大于5%时,荧光强度的衰减更为明显。结果证明了荧光光谱法检测地沟油的可行性,而且步骤更为简单。利用荧光光谱的非接触和高灵敏度的优势,能够更为简便地检测到加入了5%以上地沟油的花生油。     

联合荧光光谱与寿命法检测多次高温加热油

三维荧光光谱法检测多次高温加热植物油,该方法能快速、准确的获得待测样品的三维荧光光谱特征图,但只是定性的分析。当荧光强度变化较小的时候,容易出现误检、漏检的情况。先用三维荧光光谱技术分析植物油样品的光谱信息,然后再通过荧光寿命法,计算多次高温加热植物油中荧光光子的寿命,通过与未加热油荧光寿命的对比,检测多次高温加热植物油。二者联合,进一步提高了检测的准确度,有利于解决误检、漏检的问题,从而为高温加热油的检测提供有力的参考。     

激光辐照微藻的显微图像观察及荧光定量分析

利用激光共聚焦扫描显微镜观察激光辐照前后微藻细胞叶绿体自体荧光图像,并对荧光变化进行定量分析。用Nd:YAP激光辐照扁藻、金藻及三角褐指藻。实验结果表明:Nd:YAP激光辐照后,藻细胞荧光光谱峰位不变,但荧光峰值发生较大变化,在激光促长剂量辐照下,几种微藻细胞的荧光强度均比对照组强。激光辐照微藻产生的生理刺激效应可以反映在细胞的荧光特性与强度变化上。激光共聚焦扫描显微镜可以作为微藻激光生物效应研究的一种有效方法。     

Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of spinach chloroplast

Picosecond fluorescent kinetics and time-resolved spectra of spinach chloroplast were measured at room temperature and low temperatures. The measurement is conducted with 530 nm excitation at an average intensity of 2 · 10¹⁴ photons/cm², pulse and at a pulse separation of 6 ns for the 100 pulses used. The 685 nm fluorescent kinetics was found to decay with two components, a fast component with a 56 ps lifetime, and a slow component with a 220 ps lifetime. The 730 nm fluorescent kinetics at room temperature is a single exponential decay with a 100 ps lifetime. The 730 nm fluorescence lifetime was found to increase by a factor of 6 when the temperature was lowered from room temperature to 90 K, while the 685 and 695 nm fluorescent kinetics were unchanged. The time-resolved spectra data obtained within 10 ps after excitation is consistent with the kinetic data reported here. A two-level fluorescence scheme is proposed to explain the kinetics. The effect of excitation with high light intensity and multiple pulses is discussed.     

Time-resolved spectroscopic studies of the AppA blue-light receptor BLUF domain from Rhodobacter sphaeroides

AppA is a blue-light and redox-responding regulator of photosynthesis gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Detailed time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and subpicosecond transient absorption spectroscopy study of the BLUF domain is presented for wild-type AppA (AppAwt) and a photoinactive Y21F mutant of AppA. The main findings discussed here are that (1) time-resolved laser excitation studies on dark-adapted protein show that AppAwt and Y21F mutant protein exhibits a fluorescence decay with a lifetime of 0.6 ns. Dark-adapted AppAwt but not Y21F also exhibits slower fluorescence decay with a lifetime of 1.7 ns. Analysis of AppAwt that was light-excited to a stable light-adapted form prior to data collection shows monoexponential fluorescence decay with a lifetime of 1.0 ns. This component disappeared after 1 min of data collection after which the original "dark-adapted" values were recovered, demonstrating the presence of a approximately 1 min lifetime intermediate during the return of AppA from light- to dark-adapted form. (2) Transient absorption spectral analysis reveals a very fast rising of transient absorption (<1 ps) for AppAwt. This fast component is missing in the Y21F mutant, which lacks Tyr21, giving rise to a slower transient absorption at 4-6 ps. In the AppAwt transient spectra, most ground states recover within approximately 30 ps, compared to approximately 90-130 ps in the mutant Y21F. We propose that a temporary electron transfer occurs from Tyr21 to the N5 of flavin in AppAwt and is a triggering event for subsequent hydrogen-bond rearrangements. Dynamics of the AppA photocycle is discussed in view of the currently solved crystallographic structure of AppA.     

Energy transfer processes in Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421 that possesses phycobilisomes with a unique morphology

We examined energy transfer dynamics in phycobilisomes (PBSs) of cyanobacteria in relation to the morphology and pigment compositions of PBSs. We used Gloeobacter violaceus PCC 7421 and measured time-resolved fluorescence spectra in three types of samples, i.e., intact cells, PBSs, and rod assemblies separated from cores. Fremyella diplosiphon, a cyanobacterial species well known for its complementary chromatic adaptation, was used for comparison after growing under red or green light. Spectral data were analyzed by the fluorescence decay-associated spectra with components common in lifetimes with a time resolution of 3 ps/channel and a spectral resolution of 2 nm/channel. This ensured a higher resolution of the energy transfer kinetics than those obtained by global analysis with fewer sampling intervals. We resolved four spectral components in phycoerythrin (PE), three in phycocyanin (PC), two in allophycocyanin, and two in photosystem II. The bundle-like PBSs of G. violaceus showed multiple energy transfer pathways; fast ( approximately 10 ps) and slow ( approximately 100 ps and approximately 500 ps) pathways were found in rods consisting of PE and PC. Energy transfer time from PE to PC was two times slower in G. violaceus than in F. diplosiphon grown under green light.     

Fluorescence decay and spectral evolution in intact photosystem I of higher plants

A photosystem I preparation from maize, containing its full antenna complement (PSI-200) and in which detergent effects on chlorophyll coupling are almost completely absent, has been studied by time-resolved fluorescence techniques with approximately 5 ps resolution at 280 and 170 K in the wavelength interval of 690-780 nm. The data have been analyzed in terms of both the decay-associated spectra (DAS) and the time-resolved emission spectra (TRES). As in a previous room temperature study [Turconi, S., Weber, N., Schweitzer, D., Strotmann, H., and Holzwarth, A. R. (1994) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1187, 324-334], the 280 K decay is well described by three DAS components in the 11-130 ps time range, the fastest of which displays both positive and negative amplitudes characteristic of excitation transfer from the bulk to the red antenna forms. Both the 57 and 130 ps components have all positive amplitudes and describe complex decay and equilibration processes involving the red forms. At 170 K, four major components in the 10-715 ps time range are required to describe the decay. The fastest represents bulk to red form transfer processes, while the 55, 216, and 715 ps decays, with all positive amplitudes, have maxima near 720, 730, and 740 nm, respectively, in accord with previous steady-state fluorescence measurements. The width and asymmetry of these DAS indicate that they are spectrally complex and represent decay and equilibration processes involving the red forms. Spectral evolution during the fluorescence decay process was analyzed in terms of the TRES. The red shifting of the TRES was analyzed in terms of the first central spectral moment (mean spectral energy) which is biexponential at both temperatures. The slower component, which describes equilibration between the red forms, leads to spectral red shifting during the entire fluorescence decay process, and the mean lifetimes of the spectral moments at 280 and 170 K (86 and 291 ps, respectively) are similar to the mean lifetimes of the fluorescence decays (119 and 384 ps, respectively). Thus, both spectral evolution and the trapping-associated fluorescence decay occur on a similar time scale, and both processes display a very similar temperature sensitivity. On the basis of these data, it is concluded that trapping in PSI-200 is to a large extent rate-limited by excitation diffusion in the antenna and in particular by the slow "uphill" transfer from the low-energy forms to the bulk and/or inner core chlorophyll molecules.     

Characterization of endogenous fluorescence in nonsmall lung cancerous cells: A comparison with nonmalignant lung normal cells

Monitoring fluorescence properties of endogenous fluorophores such as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) and flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) in normal and cancerous cells provide substantial information noninvasively on biochemical and biophysical aspects of metabolic dysfunction of cancerous cells. Time‐resolved spectral profiles and fluorescence lifetime images of NADH and FAD were obtained in human lung nonsmall carcinomas (H661 and A549) and normal lung cells (MRC‐5). Both fluorophores show the fast and slowly decaying emission components upon pulsed excitation, and fluorescence spectra of NADH and FAD show blue‐ and red‐shifts, respectively, during their decay. All identified lifetime components of NADH and FAD were found to be shorter in cancerous cells than in normal cells, no matter how they were measured under different extra‐cellular conditions (cells suspended in cuvette and cells attached on glass substrate), indicating that the changes in metabolism likely altered the subcellular milieu and potentially also affected the interaction of NADH and FAD with enzymes to which these cofactors were bound. The intensity ratio of NADH and FAD of cancerous cells was also shown to be larger than that of normal cells.     

The fluorescence decay kinetics of in vivo chlorophyll measured using low intensity excitation

We report fluorescence lifetimes for in vivo chlorophyll a using a time-correlated single-photon counting technique with tunable dye laser excitation. The fluorescence decay of dark-adapted chlorella is almost exponential with a lifetime of 490 ps, which is independent of excitation from 570 nm to 640 nm.Chloroplasts show a two-component decay of 410 ps and approximately 1.4 ns, the proportion of long component depending upon the fluorescence state of the chloroplasts. The fluorescence lifetime of Photosystem I was determined to be 110 ps from measurements on fragments enriched in Photosystem I prepared from chloroplasts with digitonin.     

Evidence that the variable fluorescence in Chlorella is recombination luminescence

The fluorescence lifetime of oxygen-forming photosynthetic systems as a function of closed traps has been studied by several groups using light and poisons (usually 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (DCMU)) to fix the closed trap state during the experiment. These measurements have now been carried out using light alone, by means of pump and probe laser pulses and a very efficient fast photomultiplier-digitizing system. It is found that the absolute amplitude of fast fluorescence (mean tau, approx. 0.3 ns) remains constant until over half the traps are filled. The amplitude of the slow fluorescence (tau approximately equal to 1.2 ns) increases with pump energy, and its response is best fit with a lag or finite rise-time of approx. 200 ps. This novel result is consistent with the hypothesis that the slow component of the fluorescence is actually recombination luminescence in the trap. Thus, the full trapping time, i.e., the time to form the P+I- state from an excitation in the O2 photosystem, is relatively slow.     

A subnanosecond resolving spectrofluorimeter for the analysis of protein fluorescence kinetics

A spectrofluorometer is described consisting of an excitation source, optics, detector and time resolving electronics. The excitation source consists of a mode-locked Ar ion laser, synchronously pumps a dye laser, followed by a frequency doubling device. The repetition frequency of the U.V. pulses (FWHM some ps) has been reduced by an extra-cavity electro-optical modulator. Provisions have been made in the optical configuration to determine both time-resolved fluorescence spectra and fluorescence anisotropy decay curves. The commercially avialable electronics have been optimized for maximum time resolution. The spectral output of the excitation source is confined between 280 and 310 nm, which encompasses the region for eliciting protein fluorescence. The performance of the complete system has been tested with single lifetime standards line p-terphenyl in cyclohexane or with $\text{N-}\text{acetyl}\text{-}\text{L}\text{-}\text{tryptophanamide}$ in pH 7.5 buffer. Serum albumins from human and bovine sources have been employed as examples for time resolved fluorescence spectra and for the demonstration of anisotropy decay curves. Using these methods protein dynamics in the (sub)nanosecond time region can be directly explored.     

Fluorescence decay kinetics of mutants of corn deficient in photosystem I and photosystem II

The fast fluorescence decay kinetics of two photosynthetic mutants of corn (Zea mays) have been compared with those of normal corn. The fluorescence of normal corn can be resolved into three exponential decay components of lifetime 900–1500 ps (slow), 300–500 ps (middle) and 50–120 ps (fast), the yields of which are affected by light intensity and Mg²⁺ levels. The Photosystem II-(PS II)-defective mutant hcf-3 has similar decay lifetimes (approx. 1200, 450 and 100 ps) but is not affected by light intensity, reflecting the absence of PS II charge recombination. However, yields do respond to Mg²⁺ in a fashion typical of normal corn, which may be correlated with the presence of normal levels of light-harvesting chlorophyll a + b complex (LHCP). The PS I mutant hcf-50 also shows three-component decay kinetics. In conjunction with the results on the LHCP-deficient mutant of barley presented in a recent paper (Karukstis, K.K. and Sauer, K. (1984) Biochim. Biophys. Acta 766, 148–155), these data suggest that the slow component of normal chloroplasts is kinetically controlled by the decay processes of the LHCP and that the energy comes from one of two sources: (a) charge recombination in the reaction centre or (b) energy transferred within or between LHCP units only. The fast component appears to originate from both PS I and PS II. The complex response of the middle component to cations and light intensity, and its presence in all of the mutants, suggests that it also may have multiple origins.     

Novel spectral method for the study of viral carcinogenesis in vitro

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a unique technique for the laboratory diagnosis of cellular variations based on the characteristic molecular vibrational spectra of the cells. Microscopic FTIR was used to investigate spectral differences between normal and malignant fibroblasts transformed by retrovirus infection. A detailed analysis showed significant differences between cancerous and normal cells. The contents of vital cellular metabolites were significantly lower in the transformed cells than in the normal cells. In an attempt to identify the cellular components responsible for the observed spectral differences between normal and cancerous cells, we found significant differences between DNA of normal and cancerous cells.