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Harvey M, Lane B, Cisek R, Veres SP, Kreplak L, Tokarz D. Histological staining alters circular dichroism SHG measurements of collagen. OPTICS LETTERS 2024; 49:3705-3708. [PMID: 38950247 DOI: 10.1364/ol.523689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 05/28/2024] [Indexed: 07/03/2024]
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Circular dichroism second harmonic generation microscopy (CDSHG) is a powerful imaging technique, which allows three-dimensional visualization of collagen fibril orientation in tissues. However, recent publications have obtained contradictory results on whether CDSHG can be used to reveal the relative out-of-plane polarity of collagen fibrils. Here we compare CDSHG images of unstained tendon and tendon which has been stained with hematoxylin and eosin. We find significant differences in the CDSHG between these two conditions, which explain the recent contradictory results within the literature.
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Bouquiaux C, Beaujean P, Ramos TN, Castet F, Rodriguez V, Champagne B. First hyperpolarizability of the di-8-ANEPPS and DR1 nonlinear optical chromophores in solution. An experimental and multi-scale theoretical chemistry study. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:174307. [PMID: 37933782 DOI: 10.1063/5.0174979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023] Open
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The solvent effects on the linear and second-order nonlinear optical properties of an aminonaphtylethenylpyridinium (ANEP) dye are investigated by combining experimental and theoretical chemistry methods. On the one hand, deep near infrared (NIR) hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) measurements (1840-1950 nm) are performed on solutions of di-8-ANEPPS in deuterated chloroform, dimethylformamide, and dimethylsulfoxide to determine their first hyperpolarizablity (βHRS). For the first time, these HRS experiments are carried out in the picosecond regime in the deep NIR with very moderate (≤3 mW) average input power, providing a good signal-to-noise ratio and avoiding solvent thermal effects. Moreover, the frequency dispersion of βHRS is investigated for Disperse Red 1 (DR1), a dye commonly used as HRS external reference. On the other hand, these are compared with computational chemistry results obtained by using a sequential molecular dynamics (MD) then quantum mechanics (QM) approach. The MD method allows accounting for the dynamical nature of the molecular structures. Then, the QM part is based on TDDFT/M06-2X/6-311+G* calculations using solvation models ranging from continuum to discrete ones. Measurements report a decrease of the βHRS of di-8-ANEPPS in more polar solvents and these effects are reproduced by the different solvation models. For di-8-ANEPPS and DR1, comparisons show that the use of a hybrid solvation model, combining the description of the solvent molecules around the probe by point charges with a continuum model, already achieves quasi quantitative agreement with experiment. These results are further improved by using a polarizable embedding that includes the atomic polarizabilities in the solvent description.
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- Charlotte Bouquiaux
- University of Namur, Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Unit of Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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- University of Namur, Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Unit of Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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- University of Namur, Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Unit of Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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- University of Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, UMR 5255 CNRS, cours de la Libération 351, F-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- University of Bordeaux, Institut des Sciences Moléculaires, UMR 5255 CNRS, cours de la Libération 351, F-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- University of Namur, Theoretical Chemistry Lab, Unit of Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, rue de Bruxelles, 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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Chen L, Xue S, Dai B, Wang Y, Zhao H. Sucrose Osmotic Self-Oscillation Drives Membrane Permeability. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2023; 71:7557-7565. [PMID: 37133208 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c00794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Molecular permeation through phospholipid membranes is a fundamental biological process for small molecules. Sucrose is one of the most widely used sweeteners and a key factor in the pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes, yet a detailed understanding of its mechanism involved in permeability into phospholipid membranes is still lacking. Here, using giant unimolecular vesicles (GUVs) reconstituting membrane properties, we compared the osmotic behavior of sucrose in GUVs and HepG2 cells to explore the effect of sucrose on membrane stability in the absence of protein enhancers. The results suggested that the particle size and potential of GUVs and the cellular membrane potential changed significantly with increasing the sucrose concentration (p < 0.05). In microscopic images of cells containing GUVs and sucrose, the fluorescence intensity of vesicles was 537 ± 17.69 after 15 min, and the value was significantly higher than that of microscopic images of cells without sucrose addition (p < 0.05). These changes suggested that the permeability of the phospholipid membrane became larger under a sucrose environment. This study provides a theoretical basis for better insight on the role of sucrose in the physiological environment.
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- Lichun Chen
- Food Safety Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Soft Matter, Wageningen University and Research, 6708 WE Wageningen, Netherlands
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- Food Safety Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, People's Republic of China
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- Food Safety Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, People's Republic of China
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- Food Safety Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, People's Republic of China
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- Food Safety Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province, School of Food Science and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, People's Republic of China
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Rice A, Haldar S, Wang E, Blank PS, Akimov SA, Galimzyanov TR, Pastor RW, Zimmerberg J. Planar aggregation of the influenza viral fusion peptide alters membrane structure and hydration, promoting poration. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7336. [PMID: 36470871 PMCID: PMC9722698 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34576-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/07/2022] Open
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To infect, enveloped viruses employ spike protein, spearheaded by its amphipathic fusion peptide (FP), that upon activation extends out from the viral surface to embed into the target cellular membrane. Here we report that synthesized influenza virus FPs are membrane active, generating pores in giant unilamellar vesicles (GUV), and thus potentially explain both influenza virus' hemolytic activity and the liposome poration seen in cryo-electron tomography. Experimentally, FPs are heterogeneously distributed on the GUV at the time of poration. Consistent with this heterogeneous distribution, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of asymmetric bilayers with different numbers of FPs in one leaflet show FP aggregation. At the center of FP aggregates, a profound change in the membrane structure results in thinning, higher water permeability, and curvature. Ultimately, a hybrid bilayer nanodomain forms with one lipidic leaflet and one peptidic leaflet. Membrane elastic theory predicts a reduced barrier to water pore formation when even a dimer of FPs thins the membrane as above, and the FPs of that dimer tilt, to continue the leaflet bending initiated by the hydrophobic mismatch between the FP dimer and the surrounding lipid.
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- Amy Rice
- grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
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- grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Section on Integrative Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA ,grid.418363.b0000 0004 0506 6543Present Address: Division of Virus Research and Therapeutics, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, UP India
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- grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA ,grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Section on Integrative Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
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- grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Section on Integrative Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
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- grid.4886.20000 0001 2192 9124A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.4886.20000 0001 2192 9124A.N. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia ,grid.35043.310000 0001 0010 3972National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”, 4 Leninskiy Prospect, Moscow, Russia
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- grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Laboratory of Computational Biology, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
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- grid.94365.3d0000 0001 2297 5165Section on Integrative Biophysics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD USA
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Gasecka P, Balla NK, Sison M, Brasselet S. Lipids-Fluorophores Interactions Probed by Combined Nonlinear Polarized Microscopy. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:13718-13729. [PMID: 34902969 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c07866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Studying the structural dynamics of lipid membranes requires methods that can address both microscopic and macroscopic characteristics. Fluorescence imaging is part of the most used techniques to study membrane properties in various systems from artificial membranes to cells: It benefits from a high sensitivity to local properties such as polarity and molecular orientational order, with a high spatial resolution down to the single-molecule level. The influence of embedded fluorescent lipid probes on the lipid membrane molecules is however poorly known and relies most often on molecular dynamics simulations, due to the challenges faced by experimental approaches to address the molecular-scale dimension of this question. In this work we develop an optical microscopy imaging method to probe the effect of fluorophores embedded in the membrane as lipid probes, on their lipid environment, with a lateral resolution of a few hundreds of nanometers. We combine polarized-nonlinear microscopy contrasts that can independently address the lipid probe, by polarized two-photon fluorescence, and the membrane lipids, by polarized coherent Raman scattering. Using trimethylamino derivative 1-(4-trimethylammonium-phenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (TMA-DPH) and di-8-butyl-amino-naphthyl-ethylene-pyridinium-propyl-sulfonate (di-8-ANEPPS) as model probes, we show that both probes tend to induce an orientational disorder of their surrounding lipid CH-bonds in 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) lipids environments, while there is no noticeable effect in more disordered 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) lipid membranes.
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- Paulina Gasecka
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, F-13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, F-13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, F-13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, F-13013 Marseille, France
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Hughes HJ, Demers SME, Zhang A, Hafner JH. The orientation of a membrane probe from structural analysis by enhanced Raman scattering. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2019; 1862:183109. [PMID: 31785235 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2019.183109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2019] [Revised: 10/10/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Small fluorescent molecules are widely used as probes of biomembranes. Different probes optically indicate membrane properties such as the lipid phase, thickness, viscosity, and electrical potential. The detailed molecular mechanisms behind probe signals are not well understood, in part due to the lack of tools to determine probe position and orientation in the membrane. Optical measurements on aligned biomembranes and lipid bilayers provide some degree of orientational information based on anisotropy in absorption, fluorescence, or nonlinear optical properties. These methods typically find the polar tilt angle between the membrane normal and the long axis of the molecule. Here we show that solution-phase surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of lipid membranes on gold nanorods can be used to determine molecular orientation of molecules within the membrane. The voltage sensitive dye 4-(2-(6-(dibutylamino)-2-naphthalenyl)ethenyl)-1-(3-sulfopropyl)-hydroxide, known as di-4-ANEPPS, is studied. Through the analysis of several peaks in the SERS spectrum, the polar angle from the membrane normal is found to be 66°, and the roll angle around the long axis of the molecule to be 305° from the original orientation. This structural analysis method could help elucidate the meaning of fluorescent membrane probe signals, and how they are affected by different lipid compositions.
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- Hannah J Hughes
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America; Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States of America.
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Clancy B, Moree B, Salafsky J. Angular Mapping of Protein Structure Using Nonlinear Optical Measurements. Biophys J 2019; 117:500-508. [PMID: 31349993 PMCID: PMC6697465 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.07.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2019] [Revised: 06/12/2019] [Accepted: 07/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Proteins are inherently dynamic, flexible molecules that execute precise conformational changes to perform their functions, but existing techniques to directly measure relevant structural changes in solution at room temperature remain limited. Here, we demonstrate a structural technique using second-harmonic generation and two-photon fluorescence under single-laser excitation to map both the mean angular orientation and the distribution width of a probe at various sites throughout the protein with high sensitivity. Our work resolves distinct dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) ligand-protein conformations, allows interrogation of regions unresolvable by other techniques, and reveals structural differences between DHFR and a point mutant (DHFR-G121V). The technique, angular mapping of protein structure, enables direct and rapid determination of previously unseen aspects of protein structure in a benchtop optical system.
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Silwal AP, Lu HP. Mode-Selective Raman Imaging of Dopamine-Human Dopamine Transporter Interaction in Live Cells. ACS Chem Neurosci 2018; 9:3117-3127. [PMID: 30024721 DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Dopamine (DA) is the catecholamine neurotransmitter which interacts with dopamine receptors (DARs) to generate dopaminergic signals in the nervous system. Dopamine transporter (DAT) interacts with DA to maintain DA's homeostasis in synaptic and perisynaptic space. DAT and DARs have great importance in the central nervous system (CNS) because they are associated with the targeted binding of drugs. Interactions of DA, its analogue with DARs, or DAT have been studied extensively to understand the mechanism of the dopaminergic signaling process and several neurodegenerative diseases, including schizophrenia, Parkinson's diseases, addiction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and bipolar disorder. However, there is still a lack of a risk-free, label-free, and minimally invasive imaging approach to probe the interaction between DA and DAT or DARs. Here, we probed the DA, human dopamine transporter (hDAT), and DA-hDAT interactions in live cells using combined approach of two-photon excited (2PE) fluorescence imaging and mode-selective Raman measurement. We utilized the signature Raman peak at 1287 cm-1 to probe the location of DA and 807 and 1076 cm-1 to probe the DA-hDAT interaction in live cells. We found that the combined approach of mode-selective Raman imaging, 2PE fluorescence imaging, and computational methods is successful to probe and confirm the DA-hDAT interactions in living cells. The probing of the interactions of DARs or DAT with DA or other targeting drugs is crucial for the diagnosis and cure of several neurodegenerative diseases. Also, this analytical approach could be extended to probe other types of protein-ligand interactions.
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- Achut P. Silwal
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Ohio 43403, United States
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Rokitskaya TI, Korshunova GA, Antonenko YN. Effect of Alkyl Chain Length on Translocation of Rhodamine B n-Alkyl Esters across Lipid Membranes. Biophys J 2018; 115:514-521. [PMID: 30031539 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2018] [Revised: 06/27/2018] [Accepted: 07/02/2018] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Voltage-dependent translocation of a series of cationic rhodamine B derivatives differing in n-alkyl chain length (ethyl, butyl, octyl, dodecyl, octadecyl) from one lipid monolayer to another was studied by measuring electrical current relaxation after a voltage jump on a planar bilayer phosphatidylcholine (PC) membrane. The rate of the translocation decreased in the following series of lipids: diphytanyl-PC > dioleyl-PC > diphytanoyl-PC > dierucoyl-PC. For all the lipids studied, the rate increased with lengthening of the hydrocarbon chain of the rhodamine derivatives, with the increase being most pronounced for the compounds having a short alkyl chain. The results could be well explained by involvement of molecule reorientations in the process of transmembrane flip-flop of the hydrophobic membrane-bound compounds. However, an impact of membrane dipole potential on the translocation rate could not be excluded, because the dipole potential could contribute to the energy barrier for translocation of the compounds located at different depths in the water-membrane interface. Based on the data obtained, a difference in the dipole potential of ester diphytanoyl-PC membranes with respect to ether diphytanyl-PC was estimated to be 108 mV, highlighting the contribution of a layer of oriented carbonyl groups of the lipids to the membrane dipole potential.
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- Tatyana I Rokitskaya
- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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Khadria A, Fleischhauer J, Boczarow I, Wilkinson JD, Kohl MM, Anderson HL. Porphyrin Dyes for Nonlinear Optical Imaging of Live Cells. iScience 2018; 4:153-163. [PMID: 30240737 PMCID: PMC6147020 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2018.05.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2018] [Revised: 05/09/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Second harmonic generation (SHG)-based probes are useful for nonlinear optical imaging of biological structures, such as the plasma membrane. Several amphiphilic porphyrin-based dyes with high SHG coefficients have been synthesized with different hydrophilic head groups, and their cellular targeting has been studied. The probes with cationic head groups localize better at the plasma membrane than the neutral probes with zwitterionic or non-charged ethylene glycol-based head groups. Porphyrin dyes with only dications as hydrophilic head groups localize inside HEK293T cells to give SHG, whereas tricationic dyes localize robustly at the plasma membrane of cells, including neurons, in vitro and ex vivo. The copper(II) complex of the tricationic dye with negligible fluorescence quantum yield works as an SHG-only dye. The free-base tricationic dye has been demonstrated for two-photon fluorescence and SHG-based multimodal imaging. This study demonstrates the importance of a balance between the hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity of amphiphilic dyes for effective plasma membrane localization.
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- Anjul Khadria
- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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Khadria A, de Coene Y, Gawel P, Roche C, Clays K, Anderson HL. Push-pull pyropheophorbides for nonlinear optical imaging. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 15:947-956. [PMID: 28054076 DOI: 10.1039/c6ob02319c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pyropheophorbide-a methyl ester (PPa-OMe) has been modified by attaching electron-donor and -acceptor groups to alter its linear and nonlinear optical properties. Regioselective bromination of the terminal vinyl position and Suzuki coupling were used to attach a 4-(N,N-diethylaminophenyl) electron-donor group. The electron-acceptor dicyanomethylene was attached at the cyclic ketone position through a Knoevenagel condensation. Four different derivatives of PPa-OMe, containing either electron-donor or electron-acceptor groups, or both, were converted to hydrophilic bis-TEG amides to generate a series of amphiphilic dyes. The absorption and emission properties of all the dyes were compared to a previously reported push-pull type porphyrin-based dye and a commercial push-pull styryl dye, FM4-64. Electrochemical measurements reveal that the electron donor group causes a greater decrease in HOMO-LUMO gap than the electron-acceptor. TD-DFT calculations on optimized geometries (DFT) of all four dyes show that the HOMO is mostly localized on the donor, 4-(N,N-diethylaminophenyl), while the LUMO is distributed around the chlorin ring and the electron-acceptor. Hyper-Rayleigh scattering experiments show that the first-order hyperpolarizabilities of the dyes increase on attaching either electron-donor or -acceptor groups, having the highest value when both the donor and acceptor groups are attached. Two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) and second harmonic generation (SHG) images of the bis-TEG amide attached dyes in lipid monolayer-coated droplets of water-in-oil reveal that the TPEF and SHG involve transition dipole moments in different orientations.
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- Anjul Khadria
- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 D, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
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- Department of Chemistry, Oxford University, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
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Licari G, Beckwith JS, Soleimanpour S, Matile S, Vauthey E. Detecting order and lateral pressure at biomimetic interfaces using a mechanosensitive second-harmonic-generation probe. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:9328-9336. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00773j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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A mechanosensitive harmonophore is used to probe the order and lateral pressure in phospholipid monolayers by surface-second harmonic generation.
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- Giuseppe Licari
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva
- CH-1211 Geneva 4
- Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva
- CH-1211 Geneva 4
- Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva
- CH-1211 Geneva 4
- Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva
- CH-1211 Geneva 4
- Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva
- CH-1211 Geneva 4
- Switzerland
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Sims MT, Abbott LC, Cowling SJ, Goodby JW, Moore JN. Principal molecular axis and transition dipole moment orientations in liquid crystal systems: an assessment based on studies of guest anthraquinone dyes in a nematic host. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:813-827. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05979a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Analyses of MD simulations assess different definitions of the axes along which molecules align in a nematic host, and the effects of molecular flexibility on transition dipole moment orientations.
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- Mark T. Sims
- Department of Chemistry
- University of York
- York YO10 5DD
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of York
- York YO10 5DD
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of York
- York YO10 5DD
- UK
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Chen LC, Xie NN, Deng SP. Sweetness-induced activation of membrane dipole potential in STC-1 taste cells. Food Chem 2016; 212:768-77. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2015] [Revised: 05/18/2016] [Accepted: 06/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Butko MT, Moree B, Mortensen RB, Salafsky J. Detection of Ligand-Induced Conformational Changes in Oligonucleotides by Second-Harmonic Generation at a Supported Lipid Bilayer Interface. Anal Chem 2016; 88:10482-10489. [PMID: 27696827 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.6b02498] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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There is a high demand for characterizing oligonucleotide structural changes associated with binding interactions as well as identifying novel binders that modulate their structure and function. In this study, second-harmonic generation (SHG) was used to study RNA and DNA oligonucleotide conformational changes associated with ligand binding. For this purpose, we developed an avidin-based biotin capture surface based on a supported lipid bilayer membrane. The technique was applied to two well-characterized aptamers, both of which undergo conformational changes upon binding either a protein or a small molecule ligand. In both cases, SHG was able to resolve conformational changes in these oligonucleotides sensitively and specifically, in solution and in real time, using nanogram amounts of material. In addition, we developed a competition assay for the oligonucleotides between the specific ligands and known, nonspecific binders, and we demonstrated that intercalators and minor groove binders affect the conformation of the DNA and RNA oligonucleotides in different ways upon binding and subsequently block specific ligand binding in all cases. Our work demonstrates the broad potential of SHG for studying oligonucleotides and their conformational changes upon interaction with ligands. As SHG offers a powerful, high-throughput screening approach, our results here also open an important new avenue for identifying novel chemical probes or sequence-targeted drugs that disrupt or modulate DNA or RNA structure and function.
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- Margaret T Butko
- Biodesy, Inc. , 384 Oyster Point Boulevard, Suite No. 8, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Biodesy, Inc. , 384 Oyster Point Boulevard, Suite No. 8, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Biodesy, Inc. , 384 Oyster Point Boulevard, Suite No. 8, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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- Biodesy, Inc. , 384 Oyster Point Boulevard, Suite No. 8, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States
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Timr Š, Brabec J, Bondar A, Ryba T, Železný M, Lazar J, Jungwirth P. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Fluorescent Dyes Allow for Accurate Determination of Their Molecular Orientations in Phospholipid Membranes. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:9706-16. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b05123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Štěpán Timr
- Institute
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, MS-50F-1650, Berkeley, California 94720 United States
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- Institute
of Nanobiology and Structural Biology GCRC, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Zámek 136, 37333 Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
- Faculty
of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department
of Cybernetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 30614 Plzeň, Czech Republic
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- Department
of Cybernetics, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 30614 Plzeň, Czech Republic
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- Institute
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Institute
of Nanobiology and Structural Biology GCRC, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Zámek 136, 37333 Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
- Faculty
of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department
of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland
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Ferrand P, Gasecka P, Kress A, Wang X, Bioud FZ, Duboisset J, Brasselet S. Ultimate use of two-photon fluorescence microscopy to map orientational behavior of fluorophores. Biophys J 2015; 106:2330-9. [PMID: 24896112 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2014] [Revised: 03/28/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The orientational distribution of fluorophores is an important reporter of the structure and function of their molecular environment. Although this distribution affects the fluorescence signal under polarized-light excitation, its retrieval is limited to a small number of parameters. Because of this limitation, the need for a geometrical model (cone, Gaussian, etc.) to effect such retrieval is often invoked. In this work, using a symmetry decomposition of the distribution function of the fluorescent molecules, we show that polarized two-photon fluorescence based on tunable linear dichroism allows for the retrieval of this distribution with reasonable fidelity and without invoking either an a priori knowledge of the system to be investigated or a geometrical model. We establish the optimal level of detail to which any distribution can be retrieved using this technique. As applied to artificial lipid vesicles and cell membranes, the ability of this method to identify and quantify specific structural properties that complement the more traditional molecular-order information is demonstrated. In particular, we analyze situations that give access to the sharpness of the angular constraint, and to the evidence of an isotropic population of fluorophores within the focal volume encompassing the membrane. Moreover, this technique has the potential to address complex situations such as the distribution of a tethered membrane protein label in an ordered environment.
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- Patrick Ferrand
- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France.
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel UMR 7249, Marseille, France
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Fluorescence can be characterized by its intensity, position, wavelength, lifetime, and polarization. The more of these features are acquired in a single measurement, the more can be learned about the sample, i.e., the microenvironment of the fluorescence probe. Polarization-resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging-time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy imaging, TR-FAIM-allows mapping of viscosity or binding or of homo-FRET which can indicate dimerization or generally oligomerization.
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- Klaus Suhling
- Department of Physics, King's College London, London, UK
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Ramirez DMC, Jakubek ZJ, Lu Z, Ogilvie WW, Johnston LJ. Changes in order parameters associated with ceramide-mediated membrane reorganization measured using pTIRFM. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:15907-15918. [PMID: 24308875 DOI: 10.1021/la403585v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The enzymatic generation of ceramide has significant effects on the biophysical properties of lipid bilayers and can lead to the extensive reorganization of cell membranes. We have synthesized and characterized a headgroup-labeled fluorescent lipid probe (NBD-ceramide, NBD-Cer) and demonstrated that it can be used for polarized total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy experiments to probe changes in membrane order that result from ceramide incorporation. NBD-Cer measures significantly higher order parameters for the liquid-ordered (Lo) domains ([P2] = 0.40 ± 0.03) than for the liquid-disordered phase (Ld, fluid, [P2] = 0.22 ± 0.02) of phase-separated bilayers prepared from egg sphingomyelin, dioleolyphosphatidylcholine, and cholesterol mixtures. The probe also responds to changes in packing induced by the direct incorporation of ceramide or the variation in the ionic strength of the aqueous medium. Order parameter maps obtained after enzyme treatment of bilayers with coexisting Lo and Ld phases show two distinct types of behavior. In regions of high enzyme activity, the initial Lo/Ld domains are replaced by large, dark features that have high membrane order corroborating previous hypotheses that these are ceramide-enriched regions of the membrane. In areas of low enzyme activity, the size and shape of the Lo domains are conserved, but there is an increase in the order parameter for the initial Ld phase ([P2] = 0.30 ± 0.01). This is attributed to the incorporation of ceramide in the Lo domains with the concomitant expulsion of cholesterol into the surrounding fluid phase, increasing its order parameter.
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- Daniel M Carter Ramirez
- Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council of Canada , Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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Timr Š, Bondar A, Cwiklik L, Štefl M, Hof M, Vazdar M, Lazar J, Jungwirth P. Accurate Determination of the Orientational Distribution of a Fluorescent Molecule in a Phospholipid Membrane. J Phys Chem B 2013; 118:855-63. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4067026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Štěpán Timr
- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Nanobiology and Structural
Biology GCRC, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i.,
Zámek 136, 37333 Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská
31, 37005 České
Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- J. Heyrovský
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Dolejškova 3, 182 23 Prague 8, Czech Republic
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- J. Heyrovský
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Dolejškova 3, 182 23 Prague 8, Czech Republic
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- J. Heyrovský
Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Dolejškova 3, 182 23 Prague 8, Czech Republic
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- Rudjer Bošković Institute, Division
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry,
POB 180, HR-10002 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Institute of Nanobiology and Structural
Biology GCRC, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i.,
Zámek 136, 37333 Nové Hrady, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská
31, 37005 České
Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nám. 2, 16610 Prague 6, Czech Republic
- Department of Physics, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 692, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland
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Xu ZQ, Zhou B, Jiang FL, Dai J, Liu Y. Interaction between a cationic porphyrin and ctDNA investigated by SPR, CV and UV–vis spectroscopy. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2013; 110:321-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2013.04.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2013] [Revised: 03/24/2013] [Accepted: 04/17/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Wang X, Kress A, Brasselet S, Ferrand P. High frame-rate fluorescence confocal angle-resolved linear dichroism microscopy. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2013; 84:053708. [PMID: 23742559 DOI: 10.1063/1.4807318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Angle-resolved linear dichroism is a recent technique that exploits images recorded using an illumination field whose polarization angle is sequentially rotated during acquisition. It allows to retrieve orientation information of the fluorescent molecules, namely the average orientation angle and the amplitude of the fluctuations around this average. In order to boost up the acquisition speed without sacrificing the axial sectioning, we propose to combine a spinning disk confocal excitation scheme together with an electrooptical polarization switching and a camera acquisition. The polarization distortions induced when passing through the spinning disk system have been quantified and effectively compensated. The signal to noise features of the camera have been analyzed in detail so that the precision of the method can be quantified. The technique has been successfully tested on giant unilamellar vesicles and on living cells labeled with different fluorescent lipid probes, DiIC18 and di-8-ANEPPQ. It was able to acquire precise orientation images at full frame rates in the range of a second, ultimately limited by the fluorophore brightness and the camera sensitivity.
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- Xiao Wang
- Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Fresnel, F-13013 Marseille, France
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De Meulenaere E, Nguyen Bich N, de Wergifosse M, Van Hecke K, Van Meervelt L, Vanderleyden J, Champagne B, Clays K. Improving the second-order nonlinear optical response of fluorescent proteins: the symmetry argument. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:4061-9. [PMID: 23406416 DOI: 10.1021/ja400098b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We have successfully designed and expressed a new fluorescent protein with improved second-order nonlinear optical properties. It is the first time that a fluorescent protein has been rationally altered for this particular characteristic. On the basis of the specific noncentrosymmetry requirements for second-order nonlinear optical effects, we had hypothesized that the surprisingly low first hyperpolarizability (β) of the enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (eYFP) could be explained by centrosymmetric stacking of the chromophoric Tyr66 and the neighboring Tyr203 residue. The inversion center was removed by mutating Tyr203 into Phe203, with minor changes in the linear optical properties and even an improved fluorescence quantum yield. Structure determination by X-ray crystallography as well as linear optical characterization corroborate a correct folding and maturation. Measurement of β by means of hyper-Rayleigh scattering (HRS) as well as their analysis using quantum chemistry calculations validate our hypothesis. This observation can eventually lead to improved red fluorescent proteins for even better performance. On the basis of the specific function (second-harmonic generation), the color of its emission, and in analogy with the "fruit" names, we propose SHardonnay as the name for this Tyr203Phe mutant of eYFP.
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- Evelien De Meulenaere
- Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 20, BE-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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