A surface plasmon resonance imaging(SPRI)system was developed for the discrimination of proteins on a gold surface.As a label-free and high-throughput technique,SPRI enables simultaneously monitoring of the biomolecul...A surface plasmon resonance imaging(SPRI)system was developed for the discrimination of proteins on a gold surface.As a label-free and high-throughput technique,SPRI enables simultaneously monitoring of the biomolecular interactions at low concentrations.We used SPRI as a label-free and parallel method to detect different proteins based on protein microarray.Bovine Serum Albumin(BSA),Casein and Immunoglobulin G(IgG)were immobilized onto the Au surface of a gold-coated glass chip as spots forming a 6×6 matrix.These proteins can be discriminated directly by changing the incident angle of light.Excellent reproducibility for label-free detection of protein molecules was achieved.This SPRI platform represents a simple and robust method for performing high-sensitivity detection of protein microarray.展开更多
There is an increasing demand for advanced optical imaging techniques that can detect and resolve nanosize objects at a spatial resolution below the optical diffraction limit, especially in three-dimensional (3D) ce...There is an increasing demand for advanced optical imaging techniques that can detect and resolve nanosize objects at a spatial resolution below the optical diffraction limit, especially in three-dimensional (3D) cellular environments. In this study, using a polarization-activated localization scheme based on the orientation-dependent properties of anisotropic plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs), "photoswitchable" imaging of single gold nanorods (AuNRs) was accomplished not only in two dimensions but also in three dimensions. Moreover, the Rayleigh scattering background arising from the congested subcellular structures was efficiently suppressed. Thus, we obtained the 3D distributions of both the position and the orientation of the AuNRs inside the cells and investigated their intemalization kinetics. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the confocal-like 3D imaging of non-fluorescence nanoparticles with a high resolution and almost zero background. This technique is easy to implement and should greatly facilitate MNP studies and applications in biomedicine and biology.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Foundation of High Technology of China(2006AA020701 and 2006AA020803)National Program on Key Basic Research Projects 973 of China(2006CB705700)+1 种基金the Nature Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(2006C21G3210005)Tsinghua-Yuyuan Medicine Foundation(40000510B).
文摘A surface plasmon resonance imaging(SPRI)system was developed for the discrimination of proteins on a gold surface.As a label-free and high-throughput technique,SPRI enables simultaneously monitoring of the biomolecular interactions at low concentrations.We used SPRI as a label-free and parallel method to detect different proteins based on protein microarray.Bovine Serum Albumin(BSA),Casein and Immunoglobulin G(IgG)were immobilized onto the Au surface of a gold-coated glass chip as spots forming a 6×6 matrix.These proteins can be discriminated directly by changing the incident angle of light.Excellent reproducibility for label-free detection of protein molecules was achieved.This SPRI platform represents a simple and robust method for performing high-sensitivity detection of protein microarray.
基金Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Sdence Foundation of China (Nos. 91027037, 21127009, 21425519 and 21221003), Hunan University 985 fund, Tsinghua University Startup fund, the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (No. LY16B050006) and Wenzhou Medical University Setup fund (No. QTJ15022).
文摘There is an increasing demand for advanced optical imaging techniques that can detect and resolve nanosize objects at a spatial resolution below the optical diffraction limit, especially in three-dimensional (3D) cellular environments. In this study, using a polarization-activated localization scheme based on the orientation-dependent properties of anisotropic plasmonic metal nanoparticles (MNPs), "photoswitchable" imaging of single gold nanorods (AuNRs) was accomplished not only in two dimensions but also in three dimensions. Moreover, the Rayleigh scattering background arising from the congested subcellular structures was efficiently suppressed. Thus, we obtained the 3D distributions of both the position and the orientation of the AuNRs inside the cells and investigated their intemalization kinetics. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the confocal-like 3D imaging of non-fluorescence nanoparticles with a high resolution and almost zero background. This technique is easy to implement and should greatly facilitate MNP studies and applications in biomedicine and biology.