1. High-resolution imaging of a cell-attached nanointerface using a gold-nanoparticle two-dimensional sheet
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Shihomi Masuda, Yuhki Yanase, Eiji Usukura, Sou Ryuzaki, Pangpang Wang, Koichi Okamoto, Thasaneeya Kuboki, Satoru Kidoaki, and Kaoru Tamada
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract This paper proposes a simple, effective, non-scanning method for the visualization of a cell-attached nanointerface. The method uses localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) excited homogeneously on a two-dimensional (2D) self-assembled gold-nanoparticle sheet. The LSPR of the gold-nanoparticle sheet provides high-contrast interfacial images due to the confined light within a region a few tens of nanometers from the particles and the enhancement of fluorescence. Test experiments on rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2H3) cells with fluorescence-labeled actin filaments revealed high axial and lateral resolution even under a regular epifluorescence microscope, which produced higher quality images than those captured under a total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscope. This non-scanning-type, high-resolution imaging method will be an effective tool for monitoring interfacial phenomena that exhibit relatively rapid reaction kinetics in various cellular and molecular dynamics.
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- 2017
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