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Development of a streak-camera-based time-resolved microscope fluorimeter and its application to studies of membrane fusion in single cells.

Abstract：

:A time-resolved microscope fluorimeter based on a synchroscan streak camera and a fast pulsed laser system has been developed to measure the fluorescence lifetime decay under the fluorescence microscope. This system allows one to measure the nanosecond fluorescence lifetimes of fluorophores in a small spot (0.8-6.3 microns diameter) in single cultured cells under a fluorescence microscope, while the cells are being viewed under a high-power objective lens. A signal acquisition time between a second and a minute was usually sufficient to obtain fluorescence decay curves with good quality for 10(3)-10(5) fluorophores localized in 1 microns 2 domain. A signal-to-noise ratio better than 30 was obtained for approximately 30,000 fluorescein-labeled band 3 molecules in a 2 microns 2 region in a single human erythrocyte ghost after signal accumulation for 30 s. The measured lifetimes for a variety of fluorescent probes attached to proteins in solution and lipids in liposomes showed a good agreement with those measured in a cuvette under standard conditions by time-correlated single photon counting. With the development of this instrument, microscope fluorimetry has become a practical, straightforward, quantitative technique for investigation of molecular processes in single cells in culture. Time-resolved microscope fluorimetry has been applied to observe fusion of liposomes in vitro and that of endosomes in single cells by monitoring resonance energy transfer. Inspection of individual liposomes and endosomes revealed the extent of fusion for each vesicle. Since the use of time-resolved microscope fluorimetry eliminates the need for subcellular fractionation or the complex correction procedures in steady-state microfluorimetry, it greatly simplifies the assay for endosome fusion in vivo. The results showed that extensive fusion of sequentially formed endosomes takes place all over the cell matrix in cultured cells. This suggests that extensive fusion with incoming endosomes takes place in many endosomal compartments, possibly sorting organelles, or that the early endosomes fuse with the preexisting network of tubular cisternae of the endosomal compartment at many points in the network. It is concluded that time-resolved microscope fluorimetry is a powerful noninvasive technique for studies of in situ biochemistry and biophysics using cells and tissues.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Kusumi A,Tsuji A,Murata M,Sako Y,Yoshizawa AC,Kagiwada S,Hayakawa T,Ohnishi S

doi

10.1021/bi00240a024

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-07-02 00:00:00

pages

6517-27

issue

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

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Development of a streak-camera-based time-resolved microscope fluorimeter and its application to studies of membrane fusion in single cells.