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15 March 2018 Fluorescence lifetime imaging of cells with bound and internalized fluorescent gold nanoclusters (Conference Presentation)
Marina Mutas, Christian Strelow, Tobias Kipp, Alf Mews
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Proceedings Volume 10507, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIII; 1050717 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290067
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
Fluorescent gold nanoclusters (AuNCs) are novel promising nanomaterials for biomedical applications because of their unique physiochemical properties. We use AuNCs stabilized with mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA-AuNCs) which show a fluorescence emission that peaks at a wavelength around 525 nm, which is in the same wavelength region as the autofluorescence of a biological cell. However, the fluorescence decay time of the MUA-AuNCs (100 ns) is much longer in comparison to the autofluorescence (3 ns). Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a powerful method to discriminate between emitters of different fluorescence lifetimes. We biofunctionalize these MUA-AuNCs with biomolecules that specifically bind to the receptor expressed on the cell's membrane. To get an image of the whole cell and the bound and internalized AuNCs we use cross-sectional FLIM scans in axial direction at different heights through the cell. We distinguish between specifically bound and internalized MUA-AuNCs on and in cells by means of different FLIM methods supported by element-specific scanning electron microscopy and semi-empirical simulations.
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Marina Mutas, Christian Strelow, Tobias Kipp, and Alf Mews "Fluorescence lifetime imaging of cells with bound and internalized fluorescent gold nanoclusters (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10507, Colloidal Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications XIII, 1050717 (15 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290067
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KEYWORDS
Fluorescence lifetime imaging
Luminescence
Gold
Biomedical optics
Microscopy
Nanomaterials
Receptors
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