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- Geissbuehler, Matthias, et al.
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Triplet Imaging of Oxygen Consumption during the Contraction of a Single Smooth Muscle Cell (A7r5)
- 2010
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Ingår i: Biophysical Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0006-3495 .- 1542-0086. ; 98:2, s. 339-349
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The measurement of tissue and cell oxygenation is important for understanding cell metabolism. We have addressed this problem with a novel optical technique, called triplet imaging, that exploits oxygen-induced triplet lifetime changes and is compatible with a variety of fluorophores. A modulated excitation of varying pulse widths allows the extraction of the lifetime of the essentially dark triplet state using a high-fluorescence signal intensity. This enables the monitoring of fast kinetics of oxygen concentration in living cells combined with high temporal and spatial resolution. First, the oxygen-dependent triplet-state quenching of tetramethylrhodamine is validated and then calibrated in an L-ascorbic acid titration experiment demonstrating the linear relation between triplet lifetime and oxygen concentration according to the Stern-Volmer equation. Second, the method is applied to a biological cell system, employing as reporter a cytosolic fusion protein of beta-galactosidase with SNAP-tag labeled with tetramethylrhodamine. Oxygen consumption in single smooth muscle cells A7r5 during an [Arg(8)]-vasopressin-induced contraction is measured. The results indicate a consumption leading to an intracellular oxygen concentration that decays monoexponentially with time. The proposed method has the potential to become a new tool for investigating oxygen metabolism at the single cell and the subcellular level.
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- Spielmann, Thiemo, et al.
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Transient State Monitoring by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Physical Chemistry B. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 1520-6106 .- 1520-5207. ; 114:11, s. 4035-4046
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Triplet, photo-oxidized and other photoinduced, long-lived states Of fluorophores are sensitive to the local environment and thus attractive for microenvironmental imaging purposes. In this work, we introduce an approach where these states are monitored in a total internal reflection (TIR) fluorescence microscope, via the characteristic variations of the time-averaged fluorescence occuring ill response to different excitation modulation schemes. The surface-confined TIR excitation field generates a signal from the fluorescent molecules Close to the glass surface. Thereby, a high selectivity and low background noise is obtained, and in combination with IOW duty Cycles Of excitation, the overall photodegradation of the fluorescent molecules of the sample call be kept low, To verify the approach. the kinetics of the triplet and radical states of the dye Rhodamine 110 were imaged and analyzed in aqueous solutions at different concentrations of dissolved oxygen and of the reducing agent ascorbic acid. The experimental results Were compared to data from corresponding fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) measurements and simulations based oil finite element analysis. The approach was found to accurately determine relative populations and dynamics of triplet and photooxidized states, Overcoming passage time limitations seen ill FCS measurements. The method circumvents the need for time resolution ill the fluorescence detection, allowing simultaneous readout over the whole SLII-face area subject to excitation. It call be applied over a broad range of concentrations and does not require I strong fluorescence brightness of the sample molecules. Given the sensitivity of the triplet and photooxidized states to oxygen concentrations and not the least to local redox environments, we expect the approach to become an attractive tool for imaging cell metabolism.
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