Ultrasensitive optical imaging with lanthanide lumiphores.
Ultrasensitive optical imaging with lanthanide lumiphores.
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DOI:
10.1038/nchembio.2513
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发表时间:
2018-01
影响因子:
14.8
通讯作者:
Harbury PB
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作者:
Cho U;Riordan DP;Ciepla P;Kocherlakota KS;Chen JK;Harbury PB
In principle, the millisecond emission lifetimes of lanthanide chelates should enable their ultrasensitive detection in biological systems by time-resolved optical microscopy. In practice, however, lanthanide imaging techniques have provided no better sensitivity than conventional fluorescence microscopy. Here, we identify three fundamental problems that have impeded lanthanide microscopy: low photon flux, inefficient excitation, and optics-derived background luminescence. We overcome these limitations with a new lanthanide imaging modality, trans-reflected illumination with luminescence resonance energy transfer (trLRET), which increases the time-integrated signal intensities of lanthanide lumiphores by 170-fold and the signal-to-background ratios by 75-fold. We demonstrate that trLRET provides at least an order-of-magnitude increase in detection sensitivity over conventional epifluorescence microscopy when used to visualize endogenous protein expression in zebrafish embryos. We also show that trLRET can be used to optically detect molecular interactions in vivo. trLRET promises to unlock the full potential of lanthanide lumiphores for ultrasensitive, autofluorescence-free biological imaging.
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