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Huang W, Guo C, Zhai J, Xie X. Fluorescence Anisotropy as a Self-Referencing Readout for Ion-Selective Sensing and Imaging Using Homo-FRET between Chromoionophores. Anal Chem 2022; 94:9793-9800. [PMID: 35772106 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Fluorescence anisotropy has been widely used in developing biosensors and immunoassays, by virtue of the self-reference and environment-sensitive properties. However, fluorescence anisotropic chemical sensors on inorganic ions are limited by the total anisotropy change. To this end, we demonstrate here fluorescence anisotropic ion-selective optodes based on the homo-FRET (Förster resonance energy transfer) of the crowded chromoionophores. The conventional fluorescence on-off mode is transformed into the anisotropic mode. Variation of the target ion concentration changes the inter-chromoionophore distance in the organic sensing phase, leading to different extents of homo-FRET and steady-state anisotropy. A theoretical model is developed by coupling homo-FRET and anisotropy. Anisotropic detections of pH, K+, and Na+ are demonstrated as examples based on the different ionophores for H+, K+, and Na+, respectively. Further, fluorescence imaging of the nano-optodes, plasticized poly(vinyl chloride) sensing films, and live cells are demonstrated using a homemade fluorescence anisotropic imaging platform. The results form the basis of an ion-selective analytical method operating in the fluorescence anisotropic mode, which could potentially be applied to other fluorescence on-off probes based on homo-FRET.
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- Wenyu Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Aplin CP, Miller RC, Kay TM, Heikal AA, Boersma AJ, Sheets ED. Fluorescence depolarization dynamics of ionic strength sensors using time-resolved anisotropy. Biophys J 2021; 120:1417-1430. [PMID: 33582140 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.01.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2020] [Revised: 12/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2021] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Eukaryotic cells exploit dynamic and compartmentalized ionic strength to impact a myriad of biological functions such as enzyme activities, protein-protein interactions, and catalytic functions. Herein, we investigated the fluorescence depolarization dynamics of recently developed ionic strength biosensors (mCerulean3-linker-mCitrine) in Hofmeister salt (KCl, NaCl, NaI, and Na2SO4) solutions. The mCerulean3-mCitrine acts as a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) pair, tethered together by two oppositely charged α-helices in the linker region. We developed a time-resolved fluorescence depolarization anisotropy approach for FRET analyses, in which the donor (mCerulean3) is excited by 425-nm laser pulses, followed by fluorescence depolarization analysis of the acceptor (mCitrine) in KE (lysine-glutamate), arginine-aspartate, and arginine-glutamate ionic strength sensors with variable amino acid sequences. Similar experiments were carried out on the cleaved sensors as well as an E6G2 construct, which has neutral α-helices in the linker region, as a control. Our results show distinct dynamics of the intact and cleaved sensors. Importantly, the FRET efficiency decreases and the donor-acceptor distance increases as the environmental ionic strength increases. Our chemical equilibrium analyses of the collapsed-to-stretched conformational state transition of KE reveal that the corresponding equilibrium constant and standard Gibbs free energy changes are ionic strength dependent. We also tested the existing theoretical models for FRET analyses using steady-state anisotropy, which reveal that the angle between the dipole moments of the donor and acceptor in the KE sensor are sensitive to the ionic strength. These results help establish the time-resolved depolarization dynamics of these genetically encoded donor-acceptor pairs as a quantitative means for FRET analysis, which complement traditional methods such as time-resolved fluorescence for future in vivo studies.
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- Cody P Aplin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota.
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- DWI-Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Aachen, Germany.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota.
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Akamatsu K, Shikazono N, Saito T. Fluorescence anisotropy study of radiation-induced DNA damage clustering based on FRET. Anal Bioanal Chem 2020; 413:1185-1192. [PMID: 33245399 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-020-03082-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 11/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A clustered DNA damage site (cluster), in which two or more lesions exist within a few helical turns, is believed to be a key factor determining the fate of a living cell exposed to a DNA damaging agent such as ionizing radiation. However, the structural details of a cluster such as the number of included lesions and their proximity are unknown. Herein, we develop a method to characterize a cluster by fluorescence anisotropy measurements based on Förster resonance energy transfer (homo-FRET). Plasmid DNA (pUC19) was irradiated with 2.0 and 0.52 MeV/u 4He2+, or 0.37 MeV/u 12C5+ ion beams (linear energy transfer: ~ 70, ~ 150, ~ 760 keV/μm, respectively) and 60Co γ-rays as a standard (~ 0.2 keV/μm) in the solid state. The irradiated DNA was labeled with an aminooxyl fluorophore (Alexa Fluor 488) to the aldehyde/ketone moieties such as apurinic/apyrimidinic sites. Homo-FRET analyses provided the apparent base separation values between lesions in a cluster produced by each ion beam track as 21.1, 19.4, and 18.7 base pairs. The production frequency of a cluster increases with increasing linear energy transfer of radiation. Our results demonstrate that homo-FRET analysis has the potential to discover the qualitative and the quantitative differences of the clusters produced not only by a variety of ionizing radiation but also by other DNA damaging agents.
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- Ken Akamatsu
- DNA Damage Chemistry Research Group, Institute for Quantum Life Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, 619-0215, Kyoto, Japan.
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- DNA Damage Chemistry Research Group, Institute for Quantum Life Science, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), 8-1-7 Umemidai, Kizugawa, 619-0215, Kyoto, Japan
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- Division of Radiation Life Science, Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University, 2 Asashiro-Nishi, Kumatori, Sennan, Osaka, 590-0494, Japan
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Opstad IS, Ströhl F, Fantham M, Hockings C, Vanderpoorten O, van Tartwijk FW, Lin JQ, Tinguely JC, Dullo FT, Kaminski-Schierle GS, Ahluwalia BS, Kaminski CF. A waveguide imaging platform for live-cell TIRF imaging of neurons over large fields of view. JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS 2020; 13:e201960222. [PMID: 32067356 DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201960222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2019] [Revised: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 02/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Large fields of view (FOVs) in total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) via waveguides have been shown to be highly beneficial for single molecule localisation microscopy on fixed cells [1,2] and have also been demonstrated for short-term live-imaging of robust cell types [3-5], but not yet for delicate primary neurons nor over extended periods of time. Here, we present a waveguide-based TIRFM set-up for live-cell imaging of demanding samples. Using the developed microscope, referred to as the ChipScope, we demonstrate successful culturing and imaging of fibroblasts, primary rat hippocampal neurons and axons of Xenopus retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). The high contrast and gentle illumination mode provided by TIRFM coupled with the exceptionally large excitation areas and superior illumination homogeneity offered by photonic waveguides have potential for a wide application span in neuroscience applications.
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- Ida S Opstad
- Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- UK Dementia Research Institute at University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Island Research Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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Uri A, Nonga OE. What is the current value of fluorescence polarization assays in small molecule screening? Expert Opin Drug Discov 2019; 15:131-133. [DOI: 10.1080/17460441.2020.1702966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Asko Uri
- Institute of Chemistry, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Camacho R, Täuber D, Scheblykin IG. Fluorescence Anisotropy Reloaded-Emerging Polarization Microscopy Methods for Assessing Chromophores' Organization and Excitation Energy Transfer in Single Molecules, Particles, Films, and Beyond. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2019; 31:e1805671. [PMID: 30721532 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201805671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2018] [Revised: 11/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Fluorescence polarization is widely used to assess the orientation/rotation of molecules, and the excitation energy transfer between closely located chromophores. Emerging since the 1990s, single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging stimulate the application of light polarization for studying molecular organization and energy transfer beyond ensemble averaging. Here, traditional fluorescence polarization and linear dichroism methods used for bulk samples are compared with techniques specially developed for, or inspired by, single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Techniques for assessing energy transfer in anisotropic samples, where the traditional fluorescence anisotropy framework is not readily applicable, are discussed in depth. It is shown that the concept of a polarization portrait and the single funnel approximation can lay the foundation for alternative energy transfer metrics. Examples ranging from fundamental studies of photoactive materials (conjugated polymers, light-harvesting aggregates, and perovskite semiconductors) to Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET)-based biomedical imaging are presented. Furthermore, novel uses of light polarization for super-resolution optical imaging are mentioned as well as strategies for avoiding artifacts in polarization microscopy.
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- Rafael Camacho
- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden
- Biopolarisation, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, D-07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Solid State Physics, FSU Jena, Helmholtzweg 3, D-07743, Jena, Germany
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- Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100, Lund, Sweden
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Ströhl F, Kaminski CF. A concept for single-shot volumetric fluorescence imaging via orthogonally polarized excitation lattices. Sci Rep 2019; 9:6425. [PMID: 31015487 PMCID: PMC6478832 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-42743-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The deconvolution of widefield fluorescence images provides only guesses of spatial frequency information along the optical axis due to the so called missing cone in the optical transfer function. Retaining the single-shot imaging speed of deconvolution microscopy while gaining access to missing cone information is thus highly desirable for microscopy of volumetric samples. Here, we present a concept that superimposes two orthogonally polarized excitation lattices with a phase-shift of p between them. In conjunction with a non-iterative image reconstruction algorithm this permits the restoration of missing cone information. We show how fluorescence anisotropy could be used as a method to encode and decode the patterns simultaneously and develop a rigorous theoretical framework for the method. Through in-silico experiments and imaging of fixed biological cells on a structured illumination microscope that emulates the proposed setup we validate the feasibility of the method.
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- Florian Ströhl
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0AS, Cambridge, UK.
- Department of Physics and Technology, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, 9037, Tromsø, Norway.
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0AS, Cambridge, UK.
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Camacho R, Täuber D, Hansen C, Shi J, Bousset L, Melki R, Li JY, Scheblykin IG. 2D polarization imaging as a low-cost fluorescence method to detect α-synuclein aggregation ex vivo in models of Parkinson's disease. Commun Biol 2018; 1:157. [PMID: 30302401 PMCID: PMC6168587 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0156-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2018] [Accepted: 08/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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A hallmark of Parkinson's disease is the formation of large protein-rich aggregates in neurons, where α-synuclein is the most abundant protein. A standard approach to visualize aggregation is to fluorescently label the proteins of interest. Then, highly fluorescent regions are assumed to contain aggregated proteins. However, fluorescence brightness alone cannot discriminate micrometer-sized regions with high expression of non-aggregated proteins from regions where the proteins are aggregated on the molecular scale. Here, we demonstrate that 2-dimensional polarization imaging can discriminate between preformed non-aggregated and aggregated forms of α-synuclein, and detect increased aggregation in brain tissues of transgenic mice. This imaging method assesses homo-FRET between labels by measuring fluorescence polarization in excitation and emission simultaneously, which translates into higher contrast than fluorescence anisotropy imaging. Exploring earlier aggregation states of α-synuclein using such technically simple imaging method could lead to crucial improvements in our understanding of α-synuclein-mediated pathology in Parkinson's Disease.
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- Rafael Camacho
- Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, P.O. Box 124,, 22100, Lund, Sweden
- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, P.O. Box 124,, 22100, Lund, Sweden
- Biopolarisation, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Albert-Einstein-Str. 9, 07745, Jena, Germany
- Institute of Solid State Physics, FSU Jena, Helmholtzweg 3, 07743, Jena, Germany
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- Neural Plasticity and Repair Unit, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, BMC A10, 22184, Lund, Sweden
- Molecular Neurobiology, Department of Experimental Medical Science, BMC B11, 221 84, Lund, Sweden
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- Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, P.O. Box 124,, 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Institut Fancois Jacob (MIRCen), CEA and Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, CNRS, 18 Route du Panorama, 92265, Fontenay-Aux-Roses cedex, France
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- Institut Fancois Jacob (MIRCen), CEA and Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, CNRS, 18 Route du Panorama, 92265, Fontenay-Aux-Roses cedex, France
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- Neural Plasticity and Repair Unit, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, BMC A10, 22184, Lund, Sweden.
- Institute of Health Sciences, China Medical University, 110122, Shenyang, People's Republic of China.
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- Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, P.O. Box 124,, 22100, Lund, Sweden.
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SUN LL, SU YY, GAO YJ, Li W, LYU H, LI B, LI D. Progresses of Single Molecular Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer in Studying Biomacromolecule Dynamic Process. CHINESE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2040(18)61088-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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