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ArticleBiophysical journal2015

An Intermittent Model for Intracellular Motions of Gold Nanostars by k-Space Scattering Image Correlation.

Margaux Bouzin, Laura Sironi, Giuseppe Chirico, Laura D'Alfonso, Donato Inverso, Piersandro Pallavicini, Maddalena Collini

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Margaux BouzinPhysics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Laura SironiPhysics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Giuseppe ChiricoPhysics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Laura D'AlfonsoPhysics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Donato InversoDivision of Immunology, Transplantation and Infectious Diseases, IRCCS, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Piersandro PallaviciniChemistry Department, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Maddalena ColliniPhysics Department, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Electronic address: maddalena.collini@mib.infn.it.
University of Milano-Bicocca · ITUniversity of Pavia · ITVita-Salute San Raffaele University · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anisotropic metallic nanoparticles have been devised as powerful potential tools for in vivo imaging, photothermal therapy, and drug delivery thanks to plasmon-enhanced absorption and scattering cross sections, ease in synthesis and functionalization, and controlled cytotoxicity. The rational design of all these applications requires the characterization of the nanoparticles intracellular trafficking pathways. In this work, we exploit live-cell time-lapse confocal reflectance microscopy and image correlation in both direct and reciprocal space to investigate the intracellular transport of branched gold nanostars (GNSs). Different transport mechanisms, spanning from pure Brownian diffusion to (sub-)ballistic superdiffusion, are revealed by temporal and spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy on the tens-of-seconds timescale. According to these findings, combined with numerical simulations and with a Bayesian (hidden Markov model-based) analysis of single particle tracking data, we ascribe the superdiffusive, subballistic behavior characterizing the GNSs dynamics to a two-state switching between Brownian diffusion in the cytoplasm and molecular motor-mediated active transport. For the investigation of intermittent-type transport phenomena, we derive an analytical theoretical framework for Fourier-space image correlation spectroscopy (kICS). At first, we evaluate the influence of all the dynamic and kinetic parameters (the diffusion coefficient, the drift velocity, and the transition rates between the diffusive and the active transport regimes) on simulated kICS correlation functions. Then we outline a protocol for data analysis and employ it to derive whole-cell maps for each parameter underlying the GNSs intracellular dynamics. Capable of identifying even simpler transport phenomena, whether purely diffusive or ballistic, our intermittent kICS approach allows an exhaustive investigation of the dynamics of GNSs and biological macromolecules.

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Microscopy, ConfocalModels, BiologicalMovementNanostructuresCell SurvivalDiffusionEndocytosisGoldHeLa CellsHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedIntracellular SpaceSpatio-Temporal AnalysisGold

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PMCPMC4675865
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