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ArticleChemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry2012

Label-free live-cell imaging of nucleic acids using stimulated Raman scattering microscopy.

Xu Zhang, Maarten B J Roeffaers, Srinjan Basu, Joseph R Daniele, Dan Fu, Christian W Freudiger, Gary R Holtom, X Sunney Xie

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Article in Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57 citing papers in PubMed, 159 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Xu ZhangDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Maarten B J Roeffaers
Srinjan Basu
Joseph R Daniele
Dan Fu
Christian W Freudiger
Gary R Holtom
X Sunney Xie
Harvard University · US

Funding

Imaging the Invisible with No Labels: A Major Opportunity in Biology and MedicineR01EB010244 · NIBIB · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI XIE, XIAOLIANG SUNNEY · 2009 to 2013
$3.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB010244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging of nucleic acids is important for studying cellular processes such as cell division and apoptosis. A noninvasive label-free technique is attractive. Raman spectroscopy provides rich chemical information based on specific vibrational peaks. However, the signal from spontaneous Raman scattering is weak and long integration times are required, which drastically limits the imaging speed when used for microscopy. Coherent Raman scattering techniques, comprising coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy, overcome this problem by enhancing the signal level by up to five orders of magnitude. CARS microscopy suffers from a nonresonant background signal, which distorts Raman spectra and limits sensitivity. This makes CARS imaging of weak transitions in spectrally congested regions challenging. This is especially the case in the fingerprint region, where nucleic acids show characteristic peaks. The recently developed SRS microscopy is free from these limitations; excitation spectra are identical to those of spontaneous Raman and sensitivity is close to shot-noise limited. Herein we demonstrate the use of SRS imaging in the fingerprint region to map the distribution of nucleic acids in addition to proteins and lipids in single salivary gland cells of Drosophila larvae, and in single mammalian cells. This allows the imaging of DNA condensation associated with cell division and opens up possibilities of imaging such processes in vivo.

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Spectrum Analysis, RamanAnimalsCell Line, TumorDNADrosophila melanogasterHEK293 CellsHumansSalivary GlandsDNA

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PMID22368112
PMCPMC3516876
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