Spectral wide-field microscopic fluorescence resonance energy transfer imaging in live cells

Lili Zhang; Guiqi Qin; Liuying Chai; Jiang Zhang; Fangfang Yang; Hongqin Yang; Shusen Xie; Tongsheng Chen

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.20.8.086011

17 August 2015 Spectral wide-field microscopic fluorescence resonance energy transfer imaging in live cells

Lili Zhang, Guiqi Qin, Liuying Chai, Jiang Zhang, Fangfang Yang, Hongqin Yang, Shusen Xie, Tongsheng Chen

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 20, Issue 8, 086011 (August 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.20.8.086011

Abstract

With its precise, sensitive, and nondestructive features, spectral unmixing-based fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy has been widely applied to visualize intracellular biological events. In this report, we set up a spectral wide-field microscopic FRET imaging system by integrating a varispec liquid crystal tunable filter into a wide-field microscope for quantitative FRET measurement in living cells. We implemented a representative emission-spectral unmixing-based FRET measurement method on this platform to simultaneously acquire pixel-to-pixel images of both FRET efficiency (E) and acceptor-to-donor concentration ratio (R_C) in living HepG2 cells expressing fusion proteins in the presence or absence of free donors and acceptors and obtained consistent results with other instruments and methods. This stable and low-cost spectral wide-field microscopic FRET imaging system provides a new toolbox for imaging molecular events with high spatial resolution in living cells.

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Lili Zhang, Guiqi Qin, Liuying Chai, Jiang Zhang, Fangfang Yang, Hongqin Yang, Shusen Xie, and Tongsheng Chen "Spectral wide-field microscopic fluorescence resonance energy transfer imaging in live cells," Journal of Biomedical Optics 20(8), 086011 (17 August 2015). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.20.8.086011

Published: 17 August 2015

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