Spectrally resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: Förster resonant energy transfer global analysis with a one- and two-exponential donor model

Daniela Strat; Frank Dolp; Angelika C. Rueck; Bjorn von Einem; Cornelia Steinmetz; Christine A. F. von Arnim

doi:10.1117/1.3533318

1 February 2011 Spectrally resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: Förster resonant energy transfer global analysis with a one- and two-exponential donor model

Daniela Strat, Frank Dolp, Angelika C. Rueck, Bjorn von Einem, Cornelia Steinmetz, Christine A. F. von Arnim

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 16, Issue 2, 026002 (February 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3533318

Abstract

In many fields of life science, visualization of spatial proximity, as an indicator of protein interactions in living cells, is of outstanding interest. A method to accomplish this is the measurement of Förster resonant energy transfer (FRET) by means of spectrally resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy. The fluorescence lifetime is calculated using a multiple-wavelength fitting routine. The donor profile is assumed first to have a monoexponential time-dependent behavior, and the acceptor decay profile is solved analytically. Later, the donor profile is assumed to have a two-exponential time-dependent behavior and the acceptor decay profile is derived analytically. We develop and apply a multispectral fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy analysis system for FRET global analysis with time-resolved and spectrally resolved techniques, including information from donor and acceptor channels in contrast to using just a limited spectral data set from one detector only and a model accounting only for the donor signal. This analysis is used to demonstrate close vicinity of β-secretase (BACE) and GGA1, two proteins involved in Alzheimer's disease pathology. We attempt to verify if an improvement in calculating the donor lifetimes could be achieved when time-resolved and spectrally resolved techniques are simultaneously incorporated.

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Daniela Strat, Frank Dolp, Angelika C. Rueck, Bjorn von Einem, Cornelia Steinmetz, and Christine A. F. von Arnim "Spectrally resolved fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy: Förster resonant energy transfer global analysis with a one- and two-exponential donor model," Journal of Biomedical Optics 16(2), 026002 (1 February 2011). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3533318

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