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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Volumetric imaging of the 3D orientation of cellular structures with a polarized fluorescence light-sheet microscope.

Talon Chandler, Min Guo, Yijun Su, Jiji Chen, Yicong Wu, Junyu Liu, Atharva Agashe, Robert S Fischer, Shalin B Mehta, Abhishek Kumar and 8 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Talon Chandler *Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.ORCID 0000-0002-3033-674X
Min Guo *State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
Yijun SuLaboratory of High Resolution Optical Imaging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Jiji ChenAdvanced Imaging and Microscopy Resource, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Yicong WuLaboratory of High Resolution Optical Imaging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Junyu LiuState Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4276-9531
Atharva AgasheDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
Robert S FischerCell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Shalin B MehtaChan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94158.ORCID 0000-0002-2542-3582
Abhishek KumarBell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543.
Tobias I BaskinDepartment of Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.ORCID 0000-0001-5189-3310
Valentin JaumouilléDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6656-7833
Huafeng LiuState Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
Vinay SwaminathanDepartment of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Scania SE-221 00, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9946-810X
Amrinder S NainDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.ORCID 0000-0002-9757-2341
Rudolf OldenbourgBell Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543.ORCID 0000-0003-1055-8692
Patrick J La RiviereDepartment of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0003-3415-9864
Hari ShroffLaboratory of High Resolution Optical Imaging, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Funding

3D imaging of cells and tissues using polarized light microscopyR35GM131843 · NIGMS · MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY · PI OLDENBOURG, RUDOLF · 2019 to 2023
$2.5M
Broadband X-ray Fluorescence Emission TomographyR01EB026300 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI LA RIVIERE, PATRICK JEAN, LU, YI · 2018 to 2021
$2.4M
Matrix biophysics and pericyte mechanobiology in (patho)physiological angiogenesisR01HL162822 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Amrinder Nain, Julie A Phillippi · 2023 to 2026
$2.3M
HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01EB026300HHS | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) R35GM131843MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 62427807MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 62475232National Science Foundation (NSF) 2107332National Science Foundation (NSF) 2119949NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL162822NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB026300NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131843U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) DE-FG-03ER15421
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polarized fluorescence microscopy is a valuable tool for measuring molecular orientations in biological samples, but techniques for recovering three-dimensional orientations and positions of fluorescent ensembles are limited. We report a polarized dual-view light-sheet system for determining the diffraction-limited three-dimensional distribution of the orientations and positions of ensembles of fluorescent dipoles that label biological structures. We share a set of visualization, histogram, and profiling tools for interpreting these positions and orientations. We model the distributions based on the polarization-dependent efficiency of excitation and detection of emitted fluorescence, using coarse-grained representations we call orientation distribution functions (ODFs). We apply ODFs to create physics-informed models of image formation with spatio-angular point-spread and transfer functions. We use theory and experiment to conclude that light-sheet tilting is a necessary part of our design for recovering all three-dimensional orientations. We use our system to extend known two-dimensional results to three dimensions in FM1-43-labeled giant unilamellar vesicles, fast-scarlet-labeled cellulose in xylem cells, and phalloidin-labeled actin in U2OS cells. Additionally, we observe phalloidin-labeled actin in mouse fibroblasts grown on grids of labeled nanowires and identify correlations between local actin alignment and global cell-scale orientation, indicating cellular coordination across length scales.

Indexed as

Imaging, Three-DimensionalAnimalsHumansMiceMicroscopy, FluorescenceMicroscopy, Polarizationbiophysicalimaginginverse problempolarized fluorescence microscopy

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PMID39982748
PMCPMC11874040

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