Fluorescence lifetime imaging of lipids during 3T3-L1 cell differentiation

Young Sik Song; Young Jae Won; Sang-Hak Lee; Dug Young Kim

doi:10.1117/12.2036160

4 March 2014 Fluorescence lifetime imaging of lipids during 3T3-L1 cell differentiation

Young Sik Song, Young Jae Won, Sang-Hak Lee, Dug Young Kim

Proceedings Volume 8947, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues XII; 89471W (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2036160
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Obesity is becoming a big health problem in these days. Since increased body weight is due to increased number and size of the triglyceride-storing adipocytes, many researchers are working on differentiation conditions and processes of adipocytes. Adipocytes also work as regulators of whole-body energy homeostasis by secreting several proteins that regulate processes as diverse as haemostasis, blood pressure, immune function, angiogenesis and energy balance. 3T3-L1 cells are widely used cell line for studying adipogenesis because it can differentiate into an adipocyte-like phenotype under appropriate conditions. In this paper, we propose an effective fluorescence lifetime imaging technique which can easily distinguish lipids in membrane and those in lipid droplets. Nile red dyes are attached to lipids in 3T3-L1 cells. Fluorescence lifetime images were taken for 2 week during differentiation procedure of 3T3-L1 cells into adipocytes. We used 488 nm pulsed laser with 5MHz repetition rate and emission wavelength is 520 nm of Nile Red fluorescent dye. Results clearly show that the lifetime of Nile red in lipid droplets are smaller than those in cell membrane. Our results suggest that fluorescence lifetime imaging can be a very powerful tool to monitor lipid droplet formation in adipocytes from 3T3-L1 cells.

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Young Sik Song, Young Jae Won, Sang-Hak Lee, and Dug Young Kim "Fluorescence lifetime imaging of lipids during 3T3-L1 cell differentiation", Proc. SPIE 8947, Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells, and Tissues XII, 89471W (4 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2036160

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