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ArticleMethods and applications in fluorescence2020

Precisely calibrated and spatially informed illumination for conventional fluorescence and improved PALM imaging applications.

Angel Mancebo, Luke DeMars, Christopher T Ertsgaard, Elias M Puchner

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Article in Methods and applications in fluorescence, 2020. 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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Angel ManceboSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Physics and Nanotechnology, 115 Union St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8663-2812
Luke DeMarsSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Physics and Nanotechnology, 115 Union St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America.
Christopher T ErtsgaardSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Physics and Nanotechnology, 115 Union St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America.
Elias M PuchnerSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Physics and Nanotechnology, 115 Union St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7129-2309
University of Minnesota · US

Funding

Developing Diffusion-Contrast Super-Resolution Microscopy to Study Protein Interactions at Extreme Concentration Ratios in Live CellsR21GM127965 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI PUCHNER, GEORG ELIAS MICHAEL · 2018 to 2019
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NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM127965
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spatial light modulation using cost efficient digital micromirror devices (DMD) is finding broad applications in fluorescence microscopy due to the reduction of phototoxicity and bleaching and the ability to manipulate proteins in optogenetic experiments. However, precise illumination by DMDs and their application to single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) remained a challenge because of non-linear distortions between the DMD and camera coordinate systems caused by optical components in the excitation and emission path. Here we develop a fast and easy to implement calibration procedure that determines these distortions and matches the DMD and camera coordinate system with a precision below the optical diffraction limit. As a result, a region from a fluorescence image can be selected with a higher precision for illumination compared to a rigid transformation allowed by manual alignment of the DMD. We first demonstrate the application of our precisely calibrated light modulation by performing a proof of concept fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiment with the endoplasmic reticulum-localized protein IRE1 fused to GFP in budding yeast (S. cerevisiae). Next, we develop a spatially informed photoactivation approach for SMLM in which only regions of the cell that contain photoactivatable fluorescent proteins are selected for photoactivation. The reduced exposure of the cells to 405 nm light increased the possible imaging time by 44% until phototoxic effects cause a dominant fluorescence background and a change in cell morphology. As a result, the mean number of reliable single-molecule localizations was also significantly increased by 28%. Since the localization precision and the ability for single-molecule tracking is not altered compared to traditional photoactivation of the entire field of view, spatially informed photoactivation significantly improves the quality of SMLM images and single-molecule tracking data. Our precise calibration method therefore lays the foundation for improved SMLM with active feedback photoactivation far beyond the applications in this work.

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FluorescenceCalibrationLightingMicroscopy, Fluorescence

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