Triplet imaging of oxygen consumption during the contraction of a single smooth muscle cell (A7r5)

• Triplet imaging is a novel optical technique that allows investigating oxygen metabolism at the single cell and the sub-cellular level. The method combines high temporal and spatial resolutions which are required for the monitoring of fast kinetics of oxygen concentration in living cells. Calibration and validation are demonstrated with a titration experiment using l-ascorbic acid with the enzyme ascorbase oxidase. The method was applied to a biological cell system, employing as reporter a cytosolic fusion protein of β-galactosidase with a SNAP-tag labeled with tetramethylrhodamine. Oxygen consumption in single smooth muscle cells A7r5 during an [Arg8]-vasopressin- induced contraction is measured. The triplet lifetime images over time can be related to an intracellular oxygen consumption corresponding to a mono-exponentially decaying intracellular oxygen concentration. This is in good agreement with previously reported measurements of oxygen consumption in skeletal muscle fibers.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

Keyword

ascorbic acid

oxygen

tetramethylrhodamine

animal cell

article

calibration

camera

chemical labeling

controlled study

equipment design

fluorescence imaging

microscopy

molecular imaging

muscle excitation

nonhuman

optical resolution

oxygen concentration

oxygen consumption

priority journal

process monitoring

rat

signal detection

smooth muscle contraction

smooth muscle fiber

triplet imaging

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